Sunday, February 3, 2013

Blog Post: February 3 (Super Bowl Commercials)

"Super Bowl Commercials 2013: Grading the Best & Worst Ads"




            If there’s one thing that gets people more excited on Super Bowl Sunday than the Super Bowl, it’s the highly anticipated commercials that are always critiqued very particularly. They make the game that much better. This can be seen through the price of having one thirty second being 4 million dollars, ninety percent more than a decade ago. As the rise of YouTube and social media has grown, so has the popularity of these ads, and the reputation is still growing.

Since it is Super Bowl Sunday, I thought a Super Bowl related blog post would be in order. I myself am not a big supporter of Football (unless the patriots are playing), so the commercials in this game are just as important as the game itself. In the past years, they have been ads that I still remember and watch on occasion; they are always a good source of entertainment during the breaks of the game to keep your attention. I have come to see that ads are really hit or miss, you love them or you hate them, there’s not really an in-between.  This year, the best ad that I have seen so far is the Etrade baby commercial. I don’t know what it is about that baby, but he just knows how to make people laugh. Just the idea of a baby acting like a grown man is hilarious to me. BUT when it’s all over, whether you think the ads ruin the actual game or make it better, you can’t deny they are one of the biggest components in what makes the Super Bowl, Super. 

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