How Streamers Took Over the Super Bowl from Movie Studios

This year's game featured just one ad for a film that will be released in theaters

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The year is 2020, and it seems like every other advertisement during the Super Bowl highlighted an upcoming blockbuster, sure to be a smash hit.

Whether it was F9, Black Widow, No Time to Die or A Quiet Place Part II, the Big Game was ripe with spots from major studios.

Flash forward to 2022, nearly three years into a global pandemic. This year’s Super Bowl featured only one ad for an upcoming theatrical release: for Jordan Peele’s Nope from Universal Pictures.

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