Bud Light 'Lucky Chair' Borrows From VW's 'Sunday Afternoon'

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OK maybe just a little bit. But while we were watching the Bud Light Luck Chair commercial which has a couple of guys taking a friends chair to Stevie Wonder so he can shift the chair's luck giving properties, we can't help but think of VW's 2006 Sunday Afternoon commercial.

Watch them both below and tell us whether or not we are on crack. Likely we are.

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by Steve Hall    Feb- 3-13    
Topic: Super Bowl 2013



Oprah Delivers Touching Message to Military in Chrysler Super Bowl Ad

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There is a camp that thinks brands who thank the military for their service are pandering and gratuitous. There are others who think there simply isn't enough we can do to thank out military for their service.

Chrysler and Oprah delivered a touching two minute commercial just prior to the second half of the Super Bowl. In the ad, Oprah delivered a strong and touching message to the men and women who serve in our military. She said they are missed. They are needed. They are loved.

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by Steve Hall    Feb- 3-13    
Topic: Celebrity, Super Bowl 2013



Oreos Super Bowl Ad Incorporates Instagram

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The Oreos Super Bowl ad in which a bunch of people in a library argue over whether it's the cookie or the cream that's the best part of the cookie is funny enough. Nice nod to Instagram though it's not entirely clear what the brand wants us to to when we get to Instagram.

OK, it's a little clearer once you actually vist the brand on Instagram: OREO Cookie or Creme? This is where it all gets settled. Tag a photo #cookiethis or #cremethis, and we might just re-create it using your favorite part. http://oreo.ly/XpWThI

On Thursday, the brand's Instagram account had 2,200 followers. It's now climbed to 30,000 mark.

To our knowledge, it's the first time Instagram has been called out in a Super Bowl (or any)ad to date.

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by Steve Hall    Feb- 3-13    
Topic: Super Bowl 2013



Doritos Hilarious Super Bowl Goat Not Such A Great Pet

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Doritos will likely have a hit with its Goat For Sale ad in which a man buys a goat but soon finds out it loves Doritos. A little too much. Hey, there's only room for one Doritos lover in a household.

And the goat isn't too pleased when he realizes his owner id hoarding all the Doritos for himself! Super funny spot.

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by Steve Hall    Feb- 3-13    
Topic: Super Bowl 2013



Pepsi Taunts Coke With Behind the Scenes Look at 'Coke Chase'

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Pepsi versus Coke. Coke versus Pepsi. The "war" has been going on for as long as the two brands have been manufacturing their various variations of sugar water. The latest salvo come from Pepsi who brilliantly punks Coke by producing, with help from Funny or Die, a behind the scenes look at Coke's Coke Chase Super Bowl commercial.

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by Steve Hall    Feb- 3-13    
Topic: Super Bowl 2013



Nina Agdal Serves Up Sexy Super Bowl Delight For Carl's Jr.

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While watching the Super Bowl back in the day, we could expect several brands to serve up a delicious selection of scantily-clad women hocking beer, domain registration, energy drinks, lingerie and even water. Today, relatively few brands play the sex-sells card any more but thanks to Carl's Jr., the approach isn't quite dead.

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by Steve Hall    Feb- 3-13    
Topic: Celebrity, Racy, Super Bowl 2013



Hyundai's 'Epic Playdate' Super Bowl Ad is, Indeed, Epic

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In this Hyundai Santa Fe Super Bowl ad created by Innocean, the brand has fun with something every parent is familiar with; the playdate. While that may sound a bit mundane, this playdate is like no other. With help from the Flaming Lips, Dad and kids head to a skate park, go four wheeling, fools around with museum exhibits, hang with a motorcycle gang, go to a petting zoo where they get chased by an ostrich and go bowling inside a giant balloon.

Epic, indeed. Every kids dream.

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by Steve Hall    Feb- 3-13    
Topic: Super Bowl 2013



Samsung Super Bowl Ad Pokes Fun at Psy, Talking Babies, Crowdsourcing

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Last Thursday, Samsung released the one minute teaser to its two minute Super Bowl ad. Today, the brand released the finished two minute version. The ad, which features Seth Rogan, Paul Rudd and Bob Odenkirk, is a brilliant riff on current advertising tactics with specific callouts to the over use of Psy, sending people into space ala Axe, talking babies, crowdsourcing...and even celebrity endorsement by LeBron James who makes an appearance on a Samgsung tablet.

The ad is witty, engaging and intriguingly watchable. However, that may be due to its inside baseball strategy. While everything has become meta, some of the references made in the commercial may not be fully grasped by "regular" people. That said, we like the strategy and think the ad is well done.

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by Steve Hall    Feb- 3-13    
Topic: Celebrity, Super Bowl 2013



Ashley Madison Slyly Sleazes Way Into Super Bowl

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Right up there with PornHub in the great Super Bowl Free Publicity Land Grab game is Ashley Madison which just ran a print ad featuring a hotly-clad, coin-flipping female referee under the headline, "Do You Prefer Head or Tail?"

Oh how wonderfully witty! Head or Tail? Get it? Yea, we thought you did.

Ashley Madison, the website married people go to when they want to have an affair, placed the ad within a Super Bowl insert in the San Francisco Examiner.

Ashley Madison Founder Noel Biderman reportedly offered love-child fathering Dan Marinino a job saying, "The Dan Marino love child is just the latest in a long line of adulterous behavior supported by the organization. Should CBS fire Marino for his indiscretions, I'd be happy to have him on the team at AshleyMadison."

by Steve Hall    Feb- 2-13    
Topic: Racy, Super Bowl 2013



Subway Returns to Super Bowl With Jared Fogle

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After having been absent from the Super Bowl since 2005, Subway is making a return. The ad, created by Boston-based MMB, celebrates the 15 years that long time spokesman Jared Fogle has been able to maintain his famed 200 pound weight loss.

In the spot, which is introduced by The Office's Brian Baumgartner, Fogle is congratulated by the likes of boxer Laila Ali, speed skater Apolo Ohno, Redskins quarterback Robert Griffin and many others.

Fogel appears for only a few seconds in the ad....in front of a "cake" with a big 15 candle. Congrats, Jared.

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by Steve Hall    Feb- 1-13    
Topic: Super Bowl 2013