Barclays UK ad featuring Mariah Carey's Fantasy - uk tv advert
Channel: TV Adverts
Date: 2022-09-18

This Barclays commercial features Laura, a late twenty or early thirty something year old who still lives at home. The viewer gets the feeling that her living situation might be getting to her, judging by the strained smile plastered on her face as she sits sandwiched between mum and dad on the couch.

Her phone receives notification of a mortgage offer and a talking clock tells her “It’s time!”. We then watch Laura spring boarding happily, to a psychedelic background, from her parents' dated pad to her brand new super trendy home.

Upon further investigation, we discover the Barclays springboard mortgage helps a person buy their home with the help from a loved one. An initiative clearly setup to help those struggling to cope with raising thousands of pounds for the deposit ordinarily needed.

The bright, fun visuals and Mariah Carey soundtrack will appeal to viewers born in the eighties and early nineties, and no doubt they’ll be reminiscing on their childhoods as well as considering their mortgage options whilst watching this.