We fueled this year’s teen review panel on Doritos, Cheetos, chocolate and all you can drink A&W root beer.
Comments as follows on selected ads – topic picks in italics:
Dell as the computers crashed – I can’t remember life without a computer. I mean, wasn’t there one in the house when I was born? [1990 – first home computer acquisition, 1992 first project completed and submitted via bulletin board modem, first site up in 1996]
MacBook Air – familiar, but always impressive
Audi – amazing car, like the Godfather twist
Bridgestone squirrel – love the animal reaction
Pepsi with Justin Timberlake – where’s he going?
Budweiser Clydesdale in training – cheers all around for this one with a quick backstep to remember how the Clydesdales seemed to pose for pictures when we saw them at Sea World last summer
Underarmour – too dominating and overpowering, but we love to wear their socks
Dell – guy carrying laptop – why are they spanking him? Cool that girl kissed him, though.
Budlight cheese – kind of funny and clever – why don’t girls want guys to bring beer?
Doritos with singer – who is she? Song’s okay, but probably won’t wind up on their iPods
Garmin – love the music, editing, Paris background and Napoleon [not Dynamite] character
Planters – she’s weird, why do people like her – oh, she smells like cashews! Hey, do we have any?
Doritos Nacho Cheese – that’s kind of cold, what a goofy mouse suit – hey got any left?
Sobe – absolutely love the lizards dancing to Thriller, but isn’t one of them kind of fat? One’s wearing grills!
Vitamin Water – what was that about?!?! Shaq as a jockey?
Tide to Go – giggles all around
Coca-Cola balloons – yeah, Charlie Brown wins!
etrade baby – cute, but why did he throw up?
etrade no baby – hey, where’s the baby?
Classic Coke – who are those guys?
G2 – looks like Kota – a thirsty puppy cousin who loves to run and could use some puppy Gatorade
Amp Energy – totally gross, we don’t wanna drink it
Overall winner goes to Budweiser – thanks to Bud for making it easy for bloggers to copy and post their ads. Not surprising since I met their social media guru guy at BlogWorld – great job!
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Which ads did you like – or not?
02.04.08 Update: Super Bowl 2008 Ad Ratings Around the Web
Information Week grades each ad
Celebrity Newspot picks out weakest, lamest and funniest
Ad Rants reports that our top pick matched USA Today’s Super Bowl Top Ad Meter Score
Thanks to Gavin for mentioning this post. And, to Super Bowl ads for accepting my friend request on MySpace – now up to 85,100 friends and counting.
Update 02.05.08 Auto-load video exchanged for image with link.
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