The Most Loved—and Hated—Super Bowl 2021 Ads, According to Social Media

Our Twitter and Instagram followers choose the best, worst and most ironically divisive spots of the Big Game

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Every year, the Adweek team compiles our own rankings of the best Super Bowl ads—but we also like to know what our readers think. In 2020, we asked our Instagram followers to vote, but this year we also included Twitter polls so that folks could join in the fun there as well.

The results largely reflect the emotions of this moment in history (and the deceptively simple two-ingredient formula for a good Super Bowl ad). Toyota’s beautifully crafted and emotionally powerful “Upstream” starring Paralympian Jessica Long was the most universally loved, while the internet’s ill will toward Robinhood’s “We Are All Investors” made it the most hated.

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