The Super Bowl Isn’t Over Until the Ad Critics Say It’s Over

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Yea, we know. It was duller than a newspaper circulation department this year but, hey, it’s our job to discuss the ads ad naseum, right?

Post Mortems Armchair Quarterback the Super Bowl

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Here’s a list of what has been dubbed The Top Five Most Socially Irresponsible Commercials od the 2009 Super Bowl.

Our Super Bowl Faves: Doritos, Cash4Gold, Pedigree, CareerBuilder

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Our favorites, in no particular order were CareeBuilder, Doritos Power of the Crunch, Cash4Gold, Hulu, Doritos Snow Globe, Pepsi’s Pepsuber, Pedigree, Pepsi Max I’m Good, Coke Heist and, yes, we admit it, the SoBe commercial.

Thumbit Ad Ratings For Super Bowl XLIII

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MacGyver Meets MacGruber on Saturday Night Live For Pepsi

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So these aren’t Super Bowl ads but they are probably better than most of what we’ll see during the game.

Pepsi Parody Reflushes Everything

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Dare we utter the word parody? Yes we do.

See (Almost) All the Super Bowl Commercials Before They Air

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Yes. Yes. We have them all for you.

Adrants Real Time Super Bowl Advertising Twitter Stream

Join the Super Bowl 2009 Twitter conversation.

Universal Orlando Wants to Make You Super Human

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As Super Bowel teasers go, this one from Universal Orlando is fairly pedestrian

Canada Says No to Toronto-Based Adultery Dating Service

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Ashley Madison Agency, the company that openly promotes having an extramarital affair and has created a dating service specifically for interested adulterers, is making a spot buy during the Super Bowl.

Anheiser-Busch Will Do OK During Super Bowl

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Budweiser has released previews of the five commercial it will debut during the Super Bowl tomorrow.

Direct Response Advertising to Visit Super Bowl

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Up for Ed Mcmahon hawking you the latest must-have late night TV style? How about an update on what’s going on with old school hip-hop star MC Hammer.? Well, you’re going to get both whether or not you like in in a new commercial from Cash4Gold.

Chester the Cheetah Brings Weird to Super Bowl

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Cheetos has decided to join the Super Bowl action this weekend with a :30 featuring oddball, Chester the Cheetah. The commercial, which, again, centers around Chester encouraging a person to defy convention, will air during the first half of the game.

Leaked: SoBe Lifewater Lizard Lake Super Bowl Commercial

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You saw the crappy version which was debuted at Pepsi’s press conference this morning. Now here’s high quality version.

SB XLIII: Mean Joe Green Re-Made, Sobe 3D’d, Denny’s Teases

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– Crispin Porter + Bogusky have remade the classic Mean Joe Green commercial from 1980 for this year’s Super Bowl. The new version will feature Pittsburgh Steeler Troy Polamalu.

PETA Pawns NBC With GoDaddy-Style Banned Ad Strategy

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OK so, um yea. Like PETA was ever going to actually pay $3 million to run a commercial during the Super Bowl.

Pedigree Unleashes Animal Menagerie on Super Bowl

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It’s the Super Bowl and…OMG…look! It’s a commercial with animals in it!

Join Adrants, AdFreak, AgencySpy, Others For Super Bowl Twitter-Fest

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Love the Super Bowl? Love Twitter? Have ADD? Perfect. During the Super Bowl (or anytime leading up to it and following), use the hashtag #superads09 when posting to Twitter and your tweet will be captured and categorized for all to see.

Brand’s Super Bowl Successes Revealed…Before Ads Are Seen

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As the organization has done seven years running, Brand Keys is out with their latest Super Bowl Engagement Survey, a study which predicts which brands are likely to see the highest returns on their Super Bowl advertising endeavors.