Ad of the Day: Dirty Dishes Don't Have to Rule Your Life in These Delightful Ads for Soap

W+K brings another mundane product heroically to life

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Modern life is riddled with dirty dishes, and Finish wants to help.

A new 40-second, rapid-fire ad created by Wieden + Kennedy London for the dishwasher soap (owned by Reckitt Benckiser) runs through the various types of human activities that might make a mess of plates, bowls and glasses—and it turns out pretty much all of them do.

The deliberately grandiose concept could easily feel like an overreach for a mundane product, but the execution is brisk enough—with enough rich detail, quirky absurdity and clever insight packed in—to actually be kind of delightful, like when a shellshocked new father is beset by a gang of floating, filthy baby bottles.

It also shows W+K's knack for punching up the emotional significance of even dull brands with beautifully shot spots.

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