When commercials become entertainment

Marketing 101: Advertising is supposed to sell your product not just to get people talking about it.   The hype is on and now there are previews for Super Bowl commercials all over the web (yawn).  After the Super Bowl the media will list the winners and losers but who is going to talk about [...]

The Superbowl spots are sold out (wise or dumb)

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Here we go again.  It doesn’t matter who plays in the Superbowl because what has become just as big are the commercials which pepper the game.  There will be the usual scorecard of good ones and bad ones but what will not be examined is exactly what that $3-$4 million did for the brand and [...]