I assumed (pending someone posting that she is someone famous) that it was a generic little girl (she seemed young to me) and a tie-in to the other girl-empowerment ads.
REAL BEER would never be made with corn syrup. But people who drink REAL BEER would never come within a mile of a Bud Light, so they’re selling to the wrong crowd.
Annnnnnd, it pissed off corn growers.
The Google Translate ad was the worst one for me. Do they just think we’re stupid? It was supposed to be all touchy-feely, but its take home line was “Most of what is translated is ‘Thanks’, or ‘I love you.’” The takeaway that I get from that is that they are actively recording and data mining every single thing you put into their product. That doesn’t make me feel happy. It makes me feel like my privacy is invaded. I guess that’s the truth of the matter, but I don’t like the fact that they are actively recording any conversation I have with their product. Just creepy.
Do you not know how Google Translate works? I didn’t get the we’re recording everything you are saying vibe from it (though they may actually be doing so).
The NFL100 was the best. So many great players and moments referenced. And it was really funny to boot. I also like the Stella Artois commercial with Carrie Bradshaw, the Dude, and the Most Interesting Man in the World trying something new.
Needed Daniel Craig.
I’d kind of expecting that anyone traveling anywhere where another language is spoken, if they care about being understood at all, would go to the trouble of learning the local word for “thank you” themself. And if you know someone well enough to tell them “I love you”, then you darned well better have some degree of common language by that point.
I certainly know how it works and I have always assumed that they are recording it, but I don’t want an ad that draws attention to that fact. Again, I just found it creepy because it was done in the context of conversations. When I use a search engine, I know that they are using that information to sell ads and learn more about me. When they display it as part of conversation, it takes on a more ominous undertone. And when they just blatantly admit that they are tracking those conversations, it makes it seem like they just don’t care if you know. They know where you are and they know that you said ‘I love you’ to someone at a particular time. I personally find that creepy.
I guess I just don’t see the issue. I mean you are going through their servers when you are asking Google to translate something for you. Of course they can track those things.
I thought that myself, or any other 007, but yeah, it was a cute ad. The Dude abides!
I was certainly offended at the commercial, but that’s because they attempted to make “The Handmaids Tale” look good when it’s arguably the worst “prestige TV” show ever made
I concur. And by no means is it “where America is going”. But hey, no accounting for taste.
Charlie Sheen’s line of, “And people think I’m nuts” in the Planter’s Nutmobile commercial drew a lot of laughs.
The “100 years of Football” ad went by much too quickly. By the time I remembered one player, three other actions had taken place. That whole ad was an excellent football trivia contest.
And the appearance of “the Dude” was memorable. I don’t remember which crappy beer he was hawking, but seeing him was another trip down memory lane.
Mrs. SMV and I went downtown Saturday night, just for the buzz, and noticed Pepsi ads in the MARTA stations: “Look who’s in Atlanta for the Super Bowl!” Nice bit of trolling.
I thought this ad was terrible. It didn’t present the people of Georgia as proud or prospering or making a better life and community for themselves: they were tired-looking, covered in dirt and seemed poor. “We sure are better off being exploited by Kia than not being exploited at all” doesn’t make for compelling advertising IMO.
I did not like this ad. I find it distasteful when a deceased person is used to promote a company or product that they did not promote during their lifetime. Yes, even when that person is Andy Warhol; the meta-ness doesn’t persuade me.
Ditto, especially on the part I bolded.
I was wondering if the Budweiser corn commercial was aimed at the stigma of corn syrup or people with corn allergies. I actually drink the beer because of allergies but I doubt many people are aware of it or give a damn.
People with corn allergies are an awfully small demographic to be advertising to, and I imagine that most such folks already know which products are safe for them. I think they’re just going for “Corn is bad. It’s obviously bad, because we don’t use it, and if it were good, we would. So all of those other beers that use it are bad. Because they’re not us.”.
I’m not sure if it’s contradictory exactly, but given that the whole bud light advertising campaign has been “for the many, not the few” and making fun of people who make fun of bud and drink microbrews, it does seem really shitty of them to go on the attack of another mass produced crap beer for something as minor as different (equally good) ingredients for fermentation.