Browsing: Superbowl

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A depressing space
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Squarespace has followed its Superbowl trailer with the full clip of A Better Web Awaits, but the lasting memory is an extended version of everything that’s wrong with cyberspace.

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The worst of the web
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Web company Squarespace is tapping into Superbowl hype with a trailer that shows us everything that’s wrong with the internet. That includes too many things to squeeze into 15 seconds, but Squarespace has managed to get in epic fails, cheesy contests and online dating.

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Wowing the Superbowl crowd
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Super Bowl ads are known for generating buzz—and viewers—but not all creatives are created equal. Chrysler courted controversy and won kudos for a two-minute Super Bowl advertisement that was less a car sales pitch than a rousing political message in election year. Chrysler ignored the unwritten rules of Super Bowl advertising – to be brief and funny, for the second year in a row. But it was still voted best ad of the event. Volkswagen’s The Dog Strikes Back was a distant second and M&M’s dancing candy ad polled third (results here).

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The Superbowl: from men with no pants to Google irony
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Ah, the Superbowl, where the advertising inbetween the numerous stoppages is usually more captivating than the game itself (just seven minutes of actual movement in the average three-ish hour game, apparently). It’s where big-time US advertisers still go to show-off and find millions of mainly male eyeballs. And, thankfully, the New York Times was nice enough to collect all of the rather expensive ads that were featured and pen some live blogommentary on such topics as men with no pants, controversial gay men who like Megan Fox, ironic Google searching, beer, abortion and male beauty products.