Maybe there was a time and place for these 2 ads. It wasn’t during the Super Bowl. Horrible
My favorites were Walter White as a druggist and Fiat Viagra
Don’t recall the ad, but this year there WAS a notable case of an abused woman calling 911 and “ordering pizza” - she had to pretend she was ordering a pizza else she’d be further abused or outright killed; 911 operator figured it out and asked questions which could be answered such that the caller could sound like she was completing a pizza order.
That one was based on a true story.
How does having insurance avoid and accident? Horrible ad.
The ad was horrible.
I didn’t see it.
May have been a “bad” ad, but it was effective...
This article and the comments about it are what make it effective...
The ad about ideas starting out awkward and ugly was best, I thought. I think it was GE...the logo disappeared so quickly it was hard to catch who sponsored it.
Why?
And I understand Obama was somehow part of the festivities. Who wants to watch the lying POS spew his usual disgusting crapola? People are trying to get away from him and the misery he has caused. There he is, infecting every aspect of our lives. We can't get away from him.
I would hope that if enough disgruntled viewers would get together and let it be known they don't like these ads or the king turning the Super Bowl into a political event, this nonsense will stop. Boycott the sponsors, heck — boycott the entire event. When ratings get low enough, the powers that be will rethink their strategy.
The concept that the NFL should preach about violence against women, (because in the NFL, "We're what you call "experts" at violence against women"????) is equally stupid.
I think this is even more proof that the US has jumped the shark and is now an official Idiocracy.
I didn't watch the game, or the ads.
I was literally waiting for there to be a gun shown in the commercial because, as we all know, guns randomly jump into kid’s hands and kill them.
It was universally panned by the women watching in the room I was in so I’d say it was a bad choice by Nationwide. If you offend half the audience, getting an increase in sales from your expensive investment in buying that placement is doubtful.
In the advertising world they are known as ‘burrs’, you may hate them but you will remember and talk about them.
That ad, if you watched it closely, shows people who are still in the same place as their abuser, how to get help while making their abuser think they are just ordering pizza or making some other mundane phone call.
What it demonstrates is an astute 911 dispatcher, who picks up on what’s really going on. It was the best commercial, in the “teaching moments” department. But you had to be paying attention to the whole ad.
I think it is odd and inappropriate to use children to sell maxipads and tampons, and the theme of "girl power/girls are strong" reeked of Political Correctness and identity politics.
That commercial teaches girls that they are oppressed and can do anything just as good as boys can, which is factually untrue. It is part of the unraveling of our culture, this gender warfare.
Most of the commericals were not all that great.
The best one is the Budwiser one about friendship.
Yikes... what a downer that add was.