5.6 million dollars, that’s how much a 30 second ad in Super Bowl 54 brought this year. That comes out to $186,000 per second. So here are 20 ads from this year’s game. You decide, were they worth the money?
One of the better ads was the first ad, for the NFL “Next 100” featured a kid, “taking it to the house” and was chock full of cameo appearances as the boy runs the ball across country, even stopping to pay respect at the Pat Tillman memorial statue…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lbkafMhmvMo
Planters Peanuts had everyone in a tizzy leading up to the game with the death of the iconic Mr. Peanut in an ad last month. For the game, Wesley Snipes was speaking at Mr. Peanut’s funeral, the Kool-aid Man cried and a teardrop fell on the grave and “baby version” of Mr. Peanut popped up… obviously following the recent “baby yoda” trend…
J.W.’s favorite of the night was the Jeep ad featuring Bill Murray in a bunch of recreated scenes from the movie “Groundhog Day”…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AnhzGUcENWo
Bryan Cranston did a Mountain Dew Zero Sugar commercial with Tracee Ellis Ross that was a take off of “The Shining”…
The one I got the biggest kick out of was a Rocket Mortgage ad with Jason Momoa, showing what I have expected for a long while now. It shows him ripping off his muscles like a fake body suit revealing the real Momoa…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g2ERWFMLptw
Ellen and Portia De Rossi did a commercial for Amazon showing how the world did things before Alexa…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RF9t2rFmTVE
Oikos Greek Yogurt aired a commercial that we think was obviously aimed at the wives… it features the backsides of various NFL players…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9zCjfEbKhSw
If you didn’t see it somewhere on the internet last week, another big one with the ladies seemed to be a commercial with a dance off between Lil Nas and Sam Elliott for Doritos…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q6qchztaw9g
Sofia Vergara appeared in an ad for Proctor & Gamble with a ton of brand mascots that included Mr. Clean and the Old Spice Guy…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CvUDuu58zbo
One of the most epic ads of the entire game was for Tide laundry detergent and feature Charlie Day who flipped out over getting a stain on his shirt. The best part about it was that Charlie and his stained shirt appeared in a number of ads for other products also… Bud Light, Pepsi, Wonder Woman 1984, etc…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPrLiNseyCc&list=PLpZMjEEM864R-L5gXnpZkAAy-3C3E-ir3
Winona Ryder goes back to her birthplace in Minnesota for an ad for Squarespace…
A lot of people on social media seemed to get a kick out of this Walmart commercial that feature Aliens shopping for groceries…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=suVwYyIe1nY&feature=youtu.be
Most usually go with humor and celebrities but a few products chose the sentimental route. Including Budweiser with their “Typical Americans” commercial…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yt-zXuAAD6Q
Microsoft had a commercial titled “Be the One” that spotlighted 49ers assistant coach Katie Sowers,
who became the first woman to ever coach in a Super Bowl this year…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_xPn4DXIj5w
New York Life had an ad about the four different types of love…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-3LTR32dMgI
The ad for Google Assistant was a bit of a heart-tugger also, with an old guy getting Google to help him remember things about his wife that had passed away…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6xSxXiHwMrg
It was good to see M.C. Hammer working with his appearance in a Cheeto ad, because with Cheeto dust on your fingers, well, you can’t touch this…
Hyundai has come a long way with their Sonata model, and the new models have “Smart Park”. John Krasinski, Chris Evans, and Rachel Dratch use their wicked awesome Boston accents for this commercial…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=85iRQdjCzj0&feature=youtu.be
Anna is a fan of Post Malone, so the Bud Light Seltzer ad where he demolishes a convenience store was a favorite for her…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wsnnU3fJTWg
Pringles aired a commercial featuring Rick and Morty. If you are fan you may have gotten a kick from it, if not you probably didn’t get the premise…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96ELLT17GYQ
Michelob Ultra Gold is promising to transition six square feet of farmland into ORGANIC farmland for every six-pack of the beer that people buy…
Snickers did a sort of We are the World type thing, where everyone comes together to sing and feed the Earth a Snickers…
And finally, because you can’t seem to have a super bowl without seeing Tom Brady, Hulu ran an that looked like Brady may be announcing his retirement, but at the end of it he say’s he’s not going anywhere…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Ed61xjrZx8