Some of these commercials (like the one with Will Ferrell) were simply specific to regions. Others were examples of products capitalizing on that unfortunately timed power outage at the Superdome. All of them are pretty clever.
The 35-minute blackout may not have exactly helped the ratings, but something like 100 million people still watched the Baltimore Ravens defeat the San Francisco 49ers — and it was good year for Super Bowl ads. Watch them all again here.
In the year of the go-viral-or-go-home Super Sunday, when seemingly every spot goes up online in advance of the big game, it turns out some of the first looks at ads are going to be worth that $3.8 million per 30 seconds.
Go Daddy, the domain-name site with a history of provocative and sexist Super Bowl ads, is back at it again, and this year's Super Sunday spot rather graphically features a nerdy (but surprisingly prevalent) young man making out with supermodel Bar Refaeli.
In the year of the "go viral or go home" Super Bowl commercial, Coca-Cola is now embroiled in the latest advertising controversy for going too far on-air and online with an offensive spot in the desert.
The big new Super Bowl commercial from the little home carbonation kit that could got the thumbs-down from CBS, reportedly for taking aim at the two major soda giants (and major advertisers). Well, the banned spot has now surfaced, and guess what? It does.
The supermodel does figure into the extended cut of the company's Super Bowl commercial released today, but it's really more of a cameo than anything else.
As Super Bowl ads start to trickle online in anticipation of Super Sunday, one spot is already facing a wave of criticism that could lead to its being pulled off the air during the big game.
We're nearly a week out from Super Bowl XLVII, and all kinds of details are trickling out, from the halftime set list to the ads to the Puppy Bowl. Let's break down what we know about the entertainment parts of TV's biggest day.
Just days after General Motors decided to pull all its Facebook advertising, deeming it "ineffective," the automaker has decided it won't be advertising on the Super Bowl broadcast either. Broadcast networks, consider yourselves warned.
Ever since Michigan Senate candidate Pete Hoekstra raised eyebrows with his racist Super Bowl ad, some critics have wondered about the ad's star: What Asian-American actress would be willing to do subject herself to reading the scripted pidgin English in such a xenophobic spot?
"I have to confess, I liked the Clint Eastwood halftime ad," Newt Gingrich told a crowd in Ohio today, going against the prevailing Republican message of late, which has been to take offense at Chrysler's "Halftime in America" Superbowl advertisement.
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Along with rants about the halftime show and tabulations of exactly how much one second of Super Bowl airtime costs, the day after the Super Bowl brings us the time-honored tradition of recapping the commercials that caused an outrage.
President Obama's senior adviser took to Twitter and highlighted Chrysler's chill-inducing, Clint Eastwood-driven "Halftime in America" Superbowl ad--no surprise since it makes for a pretty good Obama re-election ad.
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Penn State is struggling to recruit with new head coach Bill O'Brien still working for the New England Patriots, multiple sources say Peyton Manning's rehab from surgery isn't progressing fast enough, and a genuine piece of news emerges from Super Bowl media day.
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