'Urgent' by DAVID Continues Humorous Campaign For The One Show 2022

The witty 'Medicine Avenue' digital film campaign by DAVID Miami spoofing TV medical dramas continues with its second spot to promote The One Show 2022 call for entries.

Playing off the style of TV episode previews, complete with scenes of frenzied operating rooms, emotional interactions between doctors, moody music and cliff hangers, the campaign pokes fun at the creative process by replacing medical terminology with dubbed dialogue of ad jargon commonly heard in agencies around the world. 

The latest spot, “Urgent”, humorously equates working on a client brief with an emergency patient operation, complete with overly dramatic staff interactions and doctor’s suggestions.

The campaign launched in September with “Ambulance”.  Each spot carries the tagline “The 2022 One Show. It's worth all the drama."

"Advertising doesn’t save lives, they say.  Yet people in our industry tend to take their jobs a little too seriously - especially when it comes to awards,” said Rafael Donato, CCO, DAVID Miami. “So for this year’s One Show campaign, we created an actual drama series, ‘Medicine Avenue’, which spoofs all the drama we create for ourselves in our day-to-day. It’s a little self-deprecation we hope everyone will identify with, and we sincerely appreciate The One Show for letting us poke fun at ourselves like this."

Entries can be submitted now, with fees increasing after each deadline period. Early entry deadline for the greatest savings is October 29th, 2021, with the regular deadline December 31st, 2021. The extended deadline is February 4th, 2022, and final deadline March 4th, 2022.

The One Show 2022 juries will be announced shortly. Judging will be conducted online, no physical entries will be accepted this year. All entry media must be uploaded into the online entry system.

Judging will start in March 2022, with finalists announced in May. The One Show 2022 Gold, Silver and Bronze Pencil winners will be announced during Creative Week in May 2022. 

Agencies, brands, production companies and individuals responsible for winning work each year are highlighted in The One Show Global Rankings, the ad industry’s most respected global measure of creative success. Winners are ranked globally, regionally and by country. 

Revenue generated from The One Show entry fees goes back into the industry to fund programming under the non-profit organisation’s four pillars: Education, Inclusion & Diversity, Gender Equality and Creative Development.