In October 1996, the song re-entered the UK Singles Chart at number 31, minus the sleeve credit to Caron Wheeler, after its use in an episode of the highly popular series of Papa and Nicole commercials for the Renault Clio car on British television.

In October 2004, "Keep On Movin'" appeared in the popular video game Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, playing on fictional new jack swing radio station CSR 103.9.

[4] Robert Hilburn from Los Angeles Times wrote that it's "an especially well-designed blend of optimistic lyric and understated, almost melancholy vocal (by Caron Wheeler) and instrumental arrangement.

[6] Forrest Green III from The Michigan Daily named "Keep On Movin'" "the single of the year by way of its power, range, and scope."

's "Paid in Full", "which is quickly becoming the blueprint for much of pop music", and also noted the song's "jazzy, semi-sweet piano groove and topped with violin undercurrents from the Reggae Philharmonic Orchestra — you've got something really delicious here.

[10] Malu Halasa, reviewer of British music newspaper Record Mirror, also found Wheeler's work as "extremely pleasant".

[11] William Shaw from Smash Hits wrote, "A fine example of one of those slow, slithery disco smoochers where not much happens really: violins twiddle a bit, a piano tinkles lazily, a woman sings here and there, and yet, somehow, the whole lot slips together effortlessly to make a supremely luxurious noise.

"[12] In a 2019 retrospective review, Justin Chadwick from Albumism remarked Caron Wheeler's "soaring vocals atop a stirring confection of deep bass and piano flourishes".

[14] In 2009, Daryl Easlea for BBC constated that the song, "with its upbeat message and Norman Whitfield-inspired strings, made a star of vocalist Caron Wheeler."

"[15] In another 2009 review, the Daily Vault's Michael R. Smith wrote that it "has an elegant, sweeping style that is set to a danceable beat.

[17] The song is notable for its expansion across nation-states, being produced in England by a group of people with Caribbean ancestry but having also been remixed into a Jamaican dub format in the United States.

This video features Caron Wheeler in front of a piano before a pink backdrop in wearing a white dress-suit, performing the song.

[21] Paul Oakenfold named "Keep On Movin'" one of his favourites in Melody Maker in October 1994, saying, "This is a classic tune which affected me in the same way Massive Attack did.

In BBC Radio’s 2008 listeners & DJs poll "The Greatest Ever Dance Record", "Keep On Movin'" came in at #6 after Michael Jackson's "Billie Jean", James Brown's "Sex Machine", Donna Summer's "I Feel Love", Derrick May's "Strings of Life" and Alison Limerick's "Where Love Lives".