$8 million per spot gets you fleeting facial hair, women’s empowerment, and AI If there was a theme running through this year’s Super Bowl Ads, it was one balancing female empowerment with traditional family values as we saw advocation of women’s athletics along with touching ads featuring families, hugging and all. If anything, both can manage to co-exist. Last year, […]
Celebs rule as Beyonce makes a surprise Verizon appearance (Editor’s Note: This piece was re-posted and re-edited as the original contained numerous grammatical and spelling errors – not to mention misidentifying an Alicia Keys song. The tone of this article was also too dark. You expect a high-quality product from T Dog Media, so I would like to apologize to all […]
Celebrities take over commercials for Super Bowl Sunday in a very bland and boring batch of ads There’s not much to say about this year’s batch of Super Bowl Commercials, which is perhaps the worst since these reviews started here in 2007. For the second year in a row, there were too many celebrities – including a few I’ve never […]
Game and Halftime Show were awesome; commercials less so If there were any themes running through this year’s Super Bowl ads, it was a lot of crypto, electric vehicles, sports gambling, and celebrities – lots of celebrities. This sums up the sixteenth edition of the T Dog Media Super Bowl Commercial review, as companies shelled out around $6.5 […]
Game was a blowout; commercials were about average Given the times we’re in with political division, unemployment, and a never-ending pandemic riddled with deaths, I thought about sitting out this year’s Super Bowl commercial recap. But pop culture never stops – even during a pandemic. And so here we are – and this year we have a song about oat […]
Bill Murray’s Groundhog Day spot is the best of the best ; Halftime Show featuring Jennifer Lopez and Shakira a smash hit Even though several cultural critics thought otherwise, this year’s batch of Super Bowl Commercials were actually better than last year’s. Yes, really. The fourteenth edition of T Dog Media’s Super Bowl Commercial Review features a lot of dancing, […]
Commercials and the game itself fall flat In common lore, thirteen is considered an “unlucky” number. Well, the thirteenth edition of T Dog Media’s Super Bowl Commercial roundup certainly hit the sour spot as most of the ads in this game were bland, stupid, boring, and awful – just like the game itself, as the New England Patriots and Los […]
Tide strikes again Last year, Tide had two memorable ads in the top ten as Procter & Gamble “cleaned up” in the Best Commercials category. This year, Tide took over the whole damn show. That sums up T Dog Media’s twelfth annual Super Bowl Commercial roundup, featuring a marked change from years past – with ads showing social activism and […]
Top 10 best list dominated by…household cleaners and laundry detergent? (Editor’s Note: Some videos in this post are no longer available.) This has got to be the “cleanest list” ever. In the eleventh edition of T Dog Media’s annual Super Bowl Commercials roundup, there is a surprising bit of irony – four of the best commercials in the top ten belonged to either […]
(Editor’s Note: Some videos below are no longer available.) Super Bowl 50 came and went with the Denver Broncos’ Peyton Manning winning his second Super Bowl trophy while the mood in Mayberry is quite somber (we’ll have more when I write up the ratings post.) Of course with the Super Bowl comes Super Bowl commercials, with advertisers spending upwards of […]
Super Bowl XLIX featured a bizarro batch of ads: love, death, a film on how beer is made, and human running around in a big video game. $4.5 million well spent, I assume. Overall, many of the Super Bowl ads struck a serious, somber tone not seen since Super Bowl XXXVI – the first Super Bowl to take place after […]
Welcome to the eighth annual T Dog Media Best and Worst Super Bowl Commercials review. The ads were featured in Super Bowl XLVIII between the Denver Broncos and the Seattle Seahawks, televised by Fox for the seventh time in its history. This was a more subdued presentation this time around, with puppies, Army heroes, and classic TV reunions as opposed […]
Welcome to the seventh annual wrap-up of the best and worst Super Bowl commercials (man, time flies!) The ads were featured in Super Bowl XLVII, a matchup between the Baltimore Ravens and the San Francisco 49ers televised over CBS. Here are the five best (and a few honorable mentions) and worst ads (you probably guessed by now who finished first) […]
Welcome to the sixth annual wrap-up of the best and worst Super Bowl commercials. Here are the five best (and five honorable mentions) and worst ads, picked by yours truly. To see each ad in its entirety, click the linked title on each review (thanks to Hulu.). Epic Successes. 1. Bud Light, “Rescue Dog”. Each time someone yells “here we […]
One of the greatest visionaries in the media business and in tech has left us. Apple co-founder Steve Jobs died Wednesday afternoon at the age of 56 due to a lengthy battle with pancreatic cancer. Jobs stepped down two months ago as CEO and handed the day-to-day reigns over to Tim Cook while retaining the title as Chairman. Jobs of […]
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