Nintendo continues their "Who Are You?" ad campaign with new TV spots featuring the song "Strict Machine" by Goldfrapp. The ad, named "Freeboy," shows a male standing in the middle of a street playing his Game Boy Advance SP as popular Nintendo characters appear around him, giving a "peek inside" the player's mind.

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Three new ads from Mercedes-Benz hope to show the "enduring relationship" between the company and its customers. Two ads focus on photographs of the owners posing with their cars while the third ad shows the loyality between owner and vehicle.

"Multiple Portraits" features the song "Reve" by DJ Cassius and closes with the tag line "No one ever poses with their toaster."

"Framed Portraits" is set to an acoustic guitar with a female crooning "Your picture is on my wall" and ends with the tag line "The Love Never Fades." The song is called "Amazed" (performed by Mozella) and was created specifically for the ad.

The third and most dramatic ad, entitled "Faithful," showcases owners as their various accomplishments are mentioned on screen. A powerful orchestral tune is heard during the ad and was created by Martin Hewer with the production agency Amber Music for the ad. (All info via the Adtunes.com Forums.)

Trailers for the upcoming Steven Spielberg movie THE TERMINAL (starring Tom Hanks and Catherine Zeta-Jones), end with the song "Leaving on a Jet Plane." Written and performed by John Denver and made popular by the folk trio Peter, Paul and Mary, the song is about Denver leaving his wife to go on tour. The cover version heard in THE TERMINAL trailer is by Chantal Kreviazuk and appeared on the soundtrack for the film ARMAGEDDON. If you watched A&E original series AIRLINE, you'll recognize the tune as the show's theme song. That version was covered by Jimmy Coup specifically for the show.

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Garnier Fructis has moved on from solely using the Transplants' song in their ads. The latest round of TV commercials uses the song "Connection" by the British punk-pop band Elastica.

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Volvo answers all the ad music fanatics' prayers by creating a TV spot in the style of a music video, complete with the artist name and song title appearing in the bottom left corner at the beginning of the ad. The song "This Way" by Dilated Peoples with Kanye West is heard as we see a director, cameras, extras and musicians make a stylish video featuring a shiny, red Volvo S40 sports wagon. You can view the ad here.

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The new 2004 Mitsubishi Endeavor "It Fits" TV ad shows various people utilizing the roomy interior space of the SUV. The spot features Nikka Costa singing "Everybody Got Their Something." (Previously heard during the credits of Blue Crush.) This is not to be confused with the similar sounding "Cherry Lips" by the band Garbage.

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This week, the highly anticpated extended Spider-Man 2 trailer premiered during NBC's The Apprentice. Sporting more music tracks than Doc Ock has tentacles, the ad is a good example of the different kinds of sources used for trailer music - none of which being the original Spider-Man soundtrack. For Spiderman 2, the trailer music includes pieces of Adam Freeland's "Burn the Clock", Celldweller's "Switchback", clips from The Last Samurai (the track "Ronin") and Plunkett & Macleane (the track "Hanging") soundtracks, and an original music cue from the production music service Immediate Music.

The Internet is abuzz about the new Victoria's Secret TV commercial featuring Bob Dylan. The aging rocker is featured in the new "Angels in Venice" clip along with his song "Love Sick" off the album Time Out of Mind. The ad seems a bit strange with ghost-like images of Dylan, but who among us would look good next to angel-winged supermodel Adriana Lima? Others have reacted negatively to his ad appearance with the tired mantra of "Sell-Out!", but the fact remains, artists like Dylan aren't getting airplay on MTV or radio. TV Commercials can allow music to reach new audiences, just ask artists like Sting.

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Sometimes commericals just stay with you, and not always because you want them to do so. One such ad might be the latest TV commercial from Six Flags Theme Parks called "It's Playtime!". The ad features an unusual looking old man (decked in a black tuxedo and red bow-tie) stepping off a tour bus. He then transforms into a dancing fool to the stylings of the Europop hit "We Like to Party" by the Vengaboys. The combo of the catchy tune and the strange dancing old man creates one of those "I don't know if I like this, yet I can't look away" type of reactions.

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