Top 10 Banned Commercials
If you’re old enough to remember the days before much of television was provided by ad-free streaming services or your DVR/Tivo could zip right through them, you’re old enough to remember commercials.
With commercial-free programming becoming the standard for television audiences, many people see those advertisements as nothing more than a nuisance to skip. But others still enjoy watching them – the funny ones especially. Maybe you couldn’t care less about football or movies, but you still watch the Super Bowl and the slowly dying Academy Awards because those live events often feature cutting-edge, highly-anticipated promotions that can set the tone for the rest of the year in advertising.
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A couple of weeks ago, I came across a video on a Facebook post that really hit my heart. You have heard me talk a lot about kindness in the last year and the message and video from Brady Burks, a farmer from Lebanon, provided additional perspective.
With Brady’s permission, I am going to share his words from the post.
Middle America’s take on a Super Bowl Commercial.
Recently there was a Super Bowl commercial filmed in our tiny town with a big name star. I understand the commercial brought with it animosity over a seemingly hypocritical message of “Unity.” I get that argument; I see why people would scoff at the commercial. But, instead of taking that commercial to heart, politically, I decided to focus on wha
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Proudly South African Super Bowl Ad
Although the American Super Bowl might not be as widely supported in South Africa as other sports, some people make a point of looking up the best Super Bowl half-time commercials on YouTube. Among the crop of this year s funniest Super Bowl ads is a Pringles commercial shot in South Africa, with local actors. The ad features two astronauts who fail to draw the attention of Mission Control and a passing ship, whose crews are distracted by constructing Pringles stacks.
By Carson
Feb 9, 2021
After much thought, I have decided the T-Mobile commercials were my favorite commercials that aired during the Super Bowl.
Honorable mention: Amazon Alexa commercial featuring Michael B. Jordan.
Worst commercial: Jeep/Bruce Springteen. If you have to ask what is this commercial for? (Kansas tourism? Church? Old Jeeps?) It s a bad commercial.