Super Bust XLIV
Outside of Indianapolis and New Orleans, most of the U.S. will have forgotten about Super Bowl XLIV by Monday evening. Across the US, most of the ads were forgotten by the time viewers fell asleep Sunday night.
Enough about how bad the ads were in general. [Along with the halftime show.] Many ads deserve their own special recognition and I’d like to highlight some of them here, by category.
The violent:1. Snickers2. The movie/video game trailers 3. Doritos
The sexually suggestive:1. GoDaddy2. CareerBuilder3. Motorola
The heartstrings appeals:1. Google2. Coca-Cola3. Budweiser
The traditional humor approach: 1. Pretty much everything else.
More takeaways and my 2010 Super Bowl ad review:
Consumer generated ads weren’t any better or worse than the “regular” ads. Ad agencies need not fear consumers taking over the world of 30-second spots – but that’s not what social computing is about… Integrated marketing didn’t show up, again. The only advertiser guaranteed to drive traffic to a web site? GoDaddy. Guerilla search ads? Non-existent. Lots of cheap keywords out there like “little Kiss”, “mobile shuffle”, or “beer house.”Here’s the catch about this entire post: I copied it almost exactly from a Super Bowl ad review I wrote in 2007. Because it doesn’t seem like much has changed since then…
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