Super Bowl Ads

The Young Turks Cross Super Bowl Threshold

Cenk Uygur | Posted 07.10.2009 | Media


Cenk Uygur

Sometimes your viewers find you, but most of the time, you have to go find your viewers. You must find your viewers in as many different places as you can.

Ape Advocate Cries Foul Over Super Bowl Simians

Brenda Scott Royce | Posted 03.15.2009 | Green


Brenda Scott Royce

The half-minute commercial may have generated a few laughs, and somehow even spiked motor oil sales, but the price paid by the animal actors isn't worth it.

Best Super Bowl Ads

Huffington Post | Marcus Baram | Posted 03.04.2009 | Media


SCROLL DOWN FOR VIDEOS In general, most of the long-awaited ads featured during the Super Bowl this year were considered a disappointment. The N...

NBC sells out Super Bowl ads for record $206M

AP | Posted 03.03.2009 | Media


TAMPA, Fla. — NBC said on the eve of Sunday's Super Bowl that it has sold the last two of the 69 advertising spots for the game, pushing total a...

Super Bowl Ads 2009 Preview

AP | DEBORAH YAO | Posted 03.03.2009 | Media


It's time for that annual winter ritual where people gather before their TV screens to whoop and holler as they gobble down unhealthy treats. Yes, it'...

MC Hammer To Hawk Golden Parachute Pants In Super Bowl Ad

Huffington Post | Alex Leo | Posted 03.02.2009 | Comedy


The Cash4Gold.com ads that play late at night on cable television have gotten an upgrade for the Super Bowl. Ed McMahon and MC Hammer team up for a su...

Ed McMahon & MC Hammer Pimp Gold In Super Bowl Ad

TMZ | Posted 03.02.2009 | Entertainment


Financially-challenged stars MC Hammer & Ed McMahon are finally making bank ... pimpin' for Cash4Gold.com during the Super Bowl. ...

Sneak Peek: Super Super Bowl Commercials!

Spencer Green | Posted 03.02.2009 | Comedy


Spencer Green

Along with the enduring celebration of thinly-disguised homoeroticism comes the even more enduring anticipation of the commercials that NBC will broadcast.

PETA's Veggie Sex Super Bowl Ad Rejected By NBC (VIDEO)

Huffington Post | Posted 02.27.2009 | Media


WATCH WHOOPI GOLDBERG IMITATE THE AD The New York Post's Page Six reports that NBC has rejected a Super Bowl ad from animal rights organization PETA ...

Too Big to Succeed

John Standerfer | Posted 02.23.2009 | Business


John Standerfer

What we don't appear to understand yet is that no amount of money, time or regulation can possibly resolve this problem while a few banks continue to hold the entire nation hostage.

FedEx Super Bowl Ads Latest Victim Of Economy (VIDEO)

Huffington Post | Danny Shea | Posted 01.23.2009 | Media


Perennial Super Bowl advertiser Federal Express has pulled out of the upcoming event for the first time in 12 years, citing the economy. In an entry ...

NBC Sells Super Bowl Ads For $3 Million Per 30 Second Spot

AdAge | Brian Steinberg | Posted 10.13.2008 | Media


NEW YORK (AdAge.com) -- Ad time in the Super Bowl seems to be disappearing faster than a plate of buffalo wings. NBC, which will broadcast Super Bowl ...

Super Bowl XLII Ads Sell Well Despite Economy: Pepsi, CareerBuilder In, GM Out (VIDEO)

Wall Street Journal | Stephanie Kang and Suzanne Vranica | Posted 10.13.2008 | Business


Marketers may be tightening their belts amid the economic downturn, but you'd never know it from the sale of Super Bowl ads. The National Football Le...

NBC Super Bowl Commercials To Cost $3 Million

Wall Street Journal | MATTHEW FUTTERMAN and SUZANNE VRANICA | Posted 05.14.2008 | Media


The Super Bowl has always been a tough ticket, but now NBC is telling advertisers it will cost them $3 million just to get into the game -- for 30 sec...

Advertisers Turning Oscar Night Into Another Super Bowl

New York Times | STUART ELLIOTT | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business


Sponsors of the ABC broadcast of the Academy Awards on Feb. 24 are deciding that the show is no country for old ads. Marketers will spend an estimate...

Timberlake's Super Bowl Ad Already Online

Silicon Alley Insider | Michael Learmonth | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business


At least some of you watch the Super Bowl for the ads, anyway. And some of you do want to watch the game, and don't want to be distracted by the ads. ...

Super Bowl Ad Preview: Gentle And Sweet, Babies, Animals, And AIDS

New York Times | Stuart Elliot | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media


NO matter how rough the action gets on the field on Sunday, when the New England Patriots meet the New York Giants in Super Bowl XLII, the advertisers...

Sleaziest Super Bowl Ads

MSNBC | Peter Hartlaub | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business


When it comes to Super Bowl advertisements, sleaze sells. This Sunday will likely feature sexual innuendos, bodily functions, crotch injuries, erectil...

Fox Sells Out Super Bowl Ads

New York Post | Holly M. Sanders | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business


Advertisers hoping to wait until the last minute to get a bargain on a Super Bowl spot are out luck. Fox, which is airing the game on Feb. 3, sold th...

Companies Banking on Super Bowl Ads

AP | SETH SUTEL | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business


NEW YORK — The story lines are unabashedly goofy. Cavemen invent the wheel to transport a beer cooler made of stone, and a car buyer enlists the...

Victoria's Secret Buys First Super Bowl Ad Since 1999

Huffington Post | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media


Last week, Fox announced that there was still one Super Bowl commercial spot left for sale. While it is unclear whether Victoria's Secret purchased t...

Fox: We're Out Of Super Bowl Ads. (Please Buy One!)

Silicon Valley Insider | Michael Learmonth | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business


Three weeks ago the WSJ said that due to tight demand, News Corp.'s (NWS) Fox was in a position to demand as much as $3 million for the last two remai...