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My Fave 2008 Super Bowl Ads -- So Far
The Feed —
Because I've been doing a lot of work lately, I've mostly ceded coverage of Super Bowl-type stuff to the sports guys. But I wanted to link here to a few Super Bowl commercials I've already seen and fallen in love with.
Number 1 - Pepsi's Deaf Friends Commercial
This is a piece starring folks we rarely see ...
My Fave 2008 Super Bowl Ads
The Feed —
Because I've been doing a lot of work lately, I've mostly ceded coverage of Super Bowl-type stuff to the sports guys. But I wanted to link here to a few Super Bowl commercials i've already seen and fallen in love with.
Number 1 - Pepsi's Deaf Friends Commercial
This is a piece starring folks werarely see ...
A Look at 2008 Super Bowl Commercials
The Hollywood Gossip —
Some fans may remember Super Bowl XLII as an historic football game that saw one of the greatest upsets in professional sports history.
Others may not be able to tell you who won on the field, but they can rattle of a list of the best and worst Super Bowl commercials from the evening. To wit:
Lamest: Godaddy.com. Why not just stick with attractive WWE Diva Candice Michelle as your spokeswoman? Instead, the company pretended to give us a shot of Danica Patrick - who really should focus on winning a race instead of being a sex symbol - doing a striptease… only to resort to the tactic of ...
Super Bowl: Which Ads Hit Biggest?
Pressed —
A close game, a writers strike, a couple of big-market teams, each with its own compelling narrative: It all added up to 97 million viewers, the biggest audience for any Super Bowl yet. (The previous record, of 94 million, was set by 1996's Cowboys-Steelers matchup.) In fact, it was the second-most watched broadcast ever, behind only the M*A*S*H finale.
In other words, those $2.7 million 30-second spots turned out to be a bargain -- or at least the ones people liked did. But which ones were those? There's some disagreement.
By the most objective measurement -- pure TV-screen-on-retina contact -- E*Trade's ...
