Like Char at Essential Keystrokes I watch the Super Bowl for the ads! Its for darn sure the game is anti-climactic. Ever since Joe Namath predicted the Jets would beat Johnny U and the Colts its been a non-sports event for me. And I'm a little compulsive about the ads - blogging anyone? - I write 'em down with a general first impression. No need to leave just yet - I won't be giving comments on each of them :). I will tell you the link to all of this year's commercials is at the bottom of this post. They have them listed by quarters - but they are decidedly NOT in the order that I saw them. Maybe they aren't intended to be...told you I was a little obsessive. But I think the sequence of the ads gives them greater weight. There were 71 ads by my count (that's without the CBS promos of there own shows - next year I count those). It includes the post game ads. Cars come out on top with 17 individual ads. Beverage (soda/beer) is next with 15. Food follows with 9 unique advertisers. Online business ties food but only because 2 outfits played the same ad twice. Now THAT is a lack of creativity - or a mocking of the viewer - I haven't yet decided.
All day long I've heard how bad they were this year. Super Bowl 2007 was not the strongest line up of ads but time usually plays a part in great commercials. I'm glad slapstick is making a comeback. Can anybody name a year that was clearly better than any other? Where's the beef? Here are my highlights - excuse the ties:
Best Use of Music - tie - Chevy's People who Love cars Love Chevy's and Honda's CR-V with Elvis. Great music overlaying excellent graphics!
Oddest juxtaposition of 3 ads - Sprints connectile dysfunction sandwiched between Coke (and its bottles) tribute to Black History and Frito-Lays "What getting here represents". Poor production choice and don't tell me the producers don't have a choice. If I was Coke, Sprint or Frito-Lay I'd be flat upset.
Oddest juxtaposition of 2 ads - eTrades "things you can do with one finger" following a Flomax ad.
Most puzzling ad or what do they do? - Garvin.com - GPS?, MP3?, make paper dinosaurs?
Most graphically appealing - Coke's Rube Goldberg cartoon and Fords EDGE
ASPCA potential protest - Blockbuster's mouse - poor mouse
Best punchline - Whats the ax for? Its a bottle opener.
Here's all of them.
Added 2.08.2007 - a history of Super Bowl ads by the numbers from Media Research
Monday, February 05, 2007
Hunka Hunka Burnin' Ads
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I was pretty disappointed overall in the quality of the ads this year. My two favorites were the Coke/Rube Goldberg edition and the Blockbuster ad.
a pretty popular sentiment, Char - overall the ads were lackluster
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