Mon 4 Feb 2008
My Take On The Super Bowl Ads
Posted by admin under Creative Ideas
Once again the world tunes in to see the “best of the best” of commercials for the super bowl. Oh yeah, there was a football game too. Anyway, I thought overall the commercials were not that great. Most tried to be funny and failed. Nothing really moved me. Out of all the commercials only one stood out to me. It was the Coke spot with Charlie Brown finally winning. I’m not sure, but I may be the only person on the planet that noticed that Charlie Brown was in the commercial. Everything that I have read and heard this morning, has people thinking it was that stewie whatever his name is, guy that ended up with the ball, he didn’t Charlie, finally won. Oh did you catch the little girl that looked like Lucy, holding the football? I thought that was clever. Well that is my take on the ads for the super bowl.
Here is the Top Ten list from the people that voted for the USA TODAY AD METER.
- Budweiser Dalmatian trains Clydesdale to make beer wagon team.
- FedEx FedEx beats giant carrier pigeons.
- Bridgestone Critters scream with squirrel missed by car.
- Doritos Giant rat goes for guy’s bag of chips.
- Bud Light Fire-breather heats up romantic dinner.
- Bud Light Men sneak beer into wine-and-cheese party.
- Coca-Cola Cartoon-character parade balloons go after Coke Classic.
- Diet Pepsi Max Star-studded cast stops dozing.
- Planters Scent of nuts makes homely woman alluring.
- (tie) Tide to Go Shirt stain is louder than a job candidate.
SoBe Life Water Lizards dance with model Naomi Campbell.
Maybe, next year will be more creative.
Take Care, Jamie


February 5th, 2008 at 5:30 pm
You’re not the only one. When I saw the Charlie-Coke commercial I thought it’d be considered the best of the bunch. It was a brilliant mix of classic and new icons, lovely music in the background, and you didn’t want to turn away. It was great and I cheered when Charlie’s head poked up from behind the buildings. The classic wins - quite the statement from Coca-Cola too. Loved it.
February 5th, 2008 at 9:29 pm
I think it was the top one on AdAge. Not sure though. I’ll have to check into that.
Thanks for commenting.
take care, Jamie
February 12th, 2008 at 11:48 pm
I only saw one of the ads - the budweiser one. I liked it but gosh, if I am going to keep up with this stuff, I need to get a tv.
Do you work in advertising?