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Poll: Best Super Bowl Ads of All Time
The Super Bowl is possibly the only day of the year you don't wish you could fast-forward through commercials.
With Just five days until the biggest day of the year for football fans and American advertisers, we are kicking off our week of Super Bowl-themed poll questions with ranking the best Super Bowl advertisements of all time.
Fortunately for Patriots fans, our team is playing on Super Sunday this year, making the actual game much more interesting. But for those left without a rooting interest Sunday, there's always the can't-miss commercials. Here's a few fun facts:
According to USA Today, the average cost of a 30-second advertising spot in this year's Super Bowl broadcast is $3.5 million. For those of you not doing the math, that's about $116,666.66 per second.
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The Super Bowl, and thus the commercials shown during that time, are seen by an average of 111 million viewers. About 162.9 million viewers watched "some part" of last year's Super Bowl, breaking the previous year's record by some 4.5 million.
Whether the most original, amusing, or straight up shocking, companies pull out all the stops to reach potential customers with the "best" Super Bowl commercials. There are also commercials that are banned from airing, but still garner viewership on the Internet as "banned Super Bowl ads."
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So while yes, there is a pretty important football game on Feb. 5 (yours truly is also a big Patriots fan, who had to suffer through 2007 surrounded by New Yorkers), we all know you'll be more reluctant to refresh the snacks during a commercial break on Super Bowl Sunday.
So Medfield, we want to know ...
Today's question: What's the best, most memorable, hysterical, or ridiculous Super Bowl commercial you remember? You can watch some of the most memorable commercials in Super Bowl history by viewing the YouTube videos above. Vote in our poll and tell us in the comments!
And don't forget to share your Super Bowl party recipes and fan photos with us before the big day.
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