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Super Bowl Commercials: Celebrity Ads
Football stars make the game, and celebrities add the spice to the Super Bowl ads. Advertisers who spend millions of dollars for 30 to 60 seconds of international exposure often recruit celebrities - comedians, movie stars, pop singers, athletes - to star in their ads and increase the chances of viewership. Here are a few of the all-time favorite celebrity Super Bowl ads (at right, comedian Will Ferrell as an athlete).
Created by : Susan MacDonald
Subject : Marketing and Advertising
Tags : advertising, celebrity, celebrity ads, marketing, museum of advertising, super bowl
Inside the Guide
Guide Creator
- Susan MacDonald
Current Editors
- Mer Holthaus
- Pete Blackshaw
- Sundar Kadayam
Contributors
- None
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| Most fans of celebrity Super Bowl ads are interested in the WHO: who's appearing, is their appearance convincing, and will it be memorable? Here are some of the most memorable ads from recent Super Bowls. |
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| http://www.youtube.com/watch?v =TrNipeP4HvQ |
Rapper MC Hammer and former TV sidekick Ed McMahon starred in a 2009 ad for "Cash for Gold."
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| http://www.youtube.com/watch?v =Sz57McRaCNU |
Check out the Super Bowl ad from PepsiCo that will have millions of viewers wondering if they accidentally hit the mute button on their remote.
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| http://www.youtube.com/watch?v =3_EbfosQZJ8 |
Denny's (restaurant) first-ever Super Bowl ad, developed and produced by San Francisco based, Goodby, Silverstein & Partners, takes a humorous shot at mobsters.
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| http://www.youtube.com/watch?v =_tkjViZodfk&feature=relat ed |
Sunsilk's commercial from Super Bowl XLII featuring Madonna, Shakira, and Marilyn Monroe.
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| http://www.youtube.com/watch?v =P4Rk97DzAjY |
LatinWorks Super Bowl XLII commercial for Bud Light: Comedian Carlos Mencia's pupils have advanced to learning how to properly flirt with the opposite sex as they learn English for the first time.
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| http://www.youtube.com/watch?v =5wqvC_E0zI8 |
Saturday Night Live's famous "What is Love?" sketch, with comedian Chris Katan, is spoofed in this 2008 Pepsi ad.
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| http://www.youtube.com/watch?v =sjVy7TOgCnU |
Perhaps one of the hottest babe commercials ever?
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| http://www.youtube.com/watch?v =I-XbmIntWn8 |
Will Ferrell Bud Light Commercial in 2008, with Ferrell appearing as fictitious athlete Jackie Moon, pitchman for Bud LIte beer.
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| http://www.youtube.com/watch?v =ZZv-36CV4XE |
Pop star Kevin Federline dreams of a big-time career as a pop star while working the fry machine at a fast-food joint.
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| http://www.youtube.com/watch?v =Tntp7zMgmWU |
Kiss rocker Gene Simmons stars in a 2009 ad for Pepsi.
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| http://www.spike.com/video/for d-ford-hybrid/2695147 |
Kermit the Frog stars in a 2006 Ford ad promoting hybrid vehicles, the Ford Escape Hybrid.
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| http://www.youtube.com/watch?v =tbSpAsJSZPc |
Terry Tate, Linebaker, knows how to shake up the office in these hard-hitting ads from Reebok in 2006.
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| http://www.youtube.com/watch?v =_Iwnq0sFwRE |
"Have a Coke and a smile" is featured in this Mean Joe Greene ad, and one young fan walks away happy with an athlete's jersey.
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| http://www.youtube.com/watch?v =_oACRt-Qp-s |
This 1993 ad pits basketball stars Larry Bird against Michael Jordan to see who wins a Big Mac.
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| http://www.youtube.com/watch?v =HrzeP4TvzXc |
This 2006 ad is about the Tribeca Film Festival in support of sponsor American Express and features actor Robert Deniro.
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