Super Bowl So White

The Super Bowl is: Janet Jackson! Wings! Ads! Mash-Up America will be watching the big game and the even bigger media blitz. But the ads are aimed at yesterday’s America. On this week’s episode, Ken Wheaton, editor of Ad Age, tells us why. 

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Some Highlights

Who’s buying which ads this year? AdAge has a great list. Budweiser (duh) and…Squarespace?

Go Panthers! Panthers’ Coach Ron Rivera is the second Latino head coach to go to the Super Bowl.

Our favorites ads:

You’re not fully clean unless you’re zestfully clean

The Force!

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