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Topic: Super Bowl

GM Punts on Super Bowl Buy Automaker says it cannot justify $4 million unit cost

General Motors has decided to punt on its annual Super Bowl investment, saying the price of admission to this year’s broadcast is simply too high. “We understand the reach the Super…

May 21 2012

How Facebook's Open Graph Impacted 'USA Today’s Super Bowl Ad Meter Led to 200,000 more videos viewed

This year marked the first time USA Today digitized its 23-year-old Super Bowl Ad Meter by rolling it out to Facebook in app form. You know lots of love weigh…

May 21 2012

Boning Up on the Upfront: A Cheat Sheet for the 2012-13 Bazaar An advance look at TV’s annual pitch to the ad world

On the eve of the annual spectacle known as Upfront Week, broadcasters can take comfort in the knowledge that the four-day dog and pony show will lead to some $9.2…

May 12 2012

M&M's Wins YouTube's Super Bowl Ad Blitz Contest Chrysler finishes second in voting by site's users

In the end, it was a shell game. M&M's "Just My Shell" commercial from BBDO New York, introducing the new Ms. Brown character, was crowned the winner of YouTube's 2012 Ad…

February 20 2012

Actress Apologizes for Faking Broken English in Political Ad Lisa Chan is actually Miss Napa Valley

Turns out Pete Hoekstra's controversial Super Bowl spot is even more bizarre than you thought. The Republican Senate candidate in Michigan was roundly criticized for showing an Asian woman speaking…

February 16 2012

CBS’ Moonves Eyes $4 Million Super Bowl Spot Bullish network boss sees record rates for NFL gem

CBS Corp. skipper Les Moonves on Wednesday made a bold prediction about the broadcaster’s Super Bowl prospects, telling investors that his sales team will set an all-time unit cost record…

February 15 2012

The Spot: Freeing the Fanboys Samsung wraps its campaign poking fun at the cult of Apple with a circus-like Super Bowl spot by Bobby Farrelly

GENESIS: With Apple's position in the smartphone market strong and getting stronger, Samsung has been trying to siphon off share by humorously portraying its rival's fans as slaves to an…

February 14 2012

Adweek's Super Bowl Rewind: 27 Spots Break 1 Million Mark on YouTube Acura leads the pack, followed by Honda and Volkswagen

Five days after Super Bowl XLVI, here's our (probably) last word on this year's commercials—a trove of data on how the spots are doing on YouTube. Partnering with Adweek for this…

February 10 2012

Good Luck Finding Your Brand on Facebook Facebook search found fundamentally lacking, say experts

Met Life and Teleflora are among the brands whose Super Bowl spots either asked viewers to “find us on Facebook” or featured a Facebook icon rather than a website address.…

February 09 2012

Ben Stein Is Pissed He Wasn't in Honda's Ferris Bueller Ad Wants a 'top-of-the-line Toyota' as payment

Ben Stein would have enjoyed Honda's Ferris Bueller ad for the Super Bowl, if it hadn't disrespected him so badly. "They had a guy imitating my voice, they should've had…

February 09 2012

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