A New Contender on the Super Bowl Scene

We all know that the Super Bowl is only 20% about the sports, and 80% about the commercials. Commercial breaks even beat the halftime show as the most important entertainment of the evening. But, suffice it to say, we’ve come to expect the same kinds of commercials from the same brands–beer, cars, snack food. And […]

Super Bowl Commercials: Best and Worst

In the end, it wasn’t a Super Bowl commercial that stole the show on Sunday. It was a post-Super Bowl commercial. Inarguably, the Esurance ad that deliberately ran during the first break AFTER the Super Bowl, starring John Krasinski of “The Office,” is getting the most chatter among marketers today. The gist is something like […]

Here Come the Super Bowl Commercials

It’s that time of year again: Time to get excited about watching the Super Bowl. Or, if you’re like Mad 4 Marketing, then it’s time to get excited about the Super Bowl commercials. There’s just one thing that’s changed the way we look forward to the big event. And that’s the fact that, in a […]

Super Bowl XLV Commercials

The Super Bowl just keeps stepping up its game when it comes to selling, promoting and popularizing its commercials, which cost $3 million for 30 seconds on average this year. For the first time ever, Hulu.com showed commercials during Super Bowl XLV through a specialized “channel” (AdZone 2011) that allowed viewers to not only watch […]