Monday, February 6, 2012

Super Bowl Commercials: Worth it?


      What could you do with $3.5 million? Buy yourself a nice house, maybe some fancy sports cars?  Well if you’re a company looking to get 30 seconds of face time with consumers during the Super Bowl, that’s the going rate. 
     The Super Bowl is not only the biggest football game of the year, it is also an advertiser’s dream—the only time of the year where TV watchers decide to leave the commercials running instead of channel surfing, or worse yet, using the DVR. There is a very different reaction among people when referring to “commercials” and “Super Bowl commercials”. No one wants to watch "commercials", but people love it when the words Super Bowl are attached.
     There are an estimated 111 million viewers of the Super Bowl this year. That is a lot of exposure for a company, but is it really worth all that money? That is a debatable topic, but one thing is for sure, even if it does not increase sales, it will get people talking.
      With the rise in social media, people are no longer only standing around in the office the next day talking about their favorite Super Bowl commercials. People are now sharing videos of their favorite commercials on Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, etc., which is reaching all their friends and followers. The exposure is guaranteed, as well as exponential.

Below are some of the top commercials from this year’s Super Bowl. 







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