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Commercials from Super Bowl XLII
Celebrity Gossip by Celebridiot —
Well the game is only part of the story when it comes to the Super Bowl. The annual event is seen as either a launching pad or a destroyer of companies that decide to advertise. GoDaddy.com built their business off of their racy ads several years ago - their ad last night was awful though. Take a look at some of the ads and let me know which one you though deserved kudos. ...
Asian Groups Respond to SalesGenie Bowl Ads
Pressed —
Response to SalesGenie.com's offensive and just-plain-dumb Super Bowl commercials has been a bit more muted than I expected, for a good reason. While groups representing Asian Americans are plenty disgusted by the ads' crude ethnic stereotypes, they're also reluctant to give the spots more exposure than they've already received.
"We're presently considering how to respond without just giving the company what they want, which is of course publicity," says Phil Lee, president of the Media Action Network for Asian Americans. (His is the group that led the protests after comedian Sarah Silverman told her infamous "I love chinks" joke on ...
