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20070204 Sunday February 04, 2007
Superbowl

Just finished watching the superbowl - as did many of you I would expect.  I am a football fan, and a big user of my DVR to skip commercials.  But not today - not on Superbowl Sunday.  Given what the advertisers pay, I have to see what they believe is worth $2.5M / 30 second slot!!

Quickly - my top 10.

10. Coke: Black History - perfect for a game with two black head coaches

9. Snickers: Mechanic - sharing a snickers ... and a kiss

8. GoDaddy.com: Marketing - hot chicks

7. Revlon: Sheryl Crow - just because it is Sheryl Crow

6. Bud Light: Faceoff - rock paper scissors, rock wins!

5.T-Mobile: My Favs - fitting for Charles B

4. Blockbuster: Mouse - using a mouse to go online for movies, a real mouse

3. GM: Robots - just awesome, machine w/feelings

2. Bud Light: Hitchhiker - you know he picked up the chainsaw guy too


1. Sprint: Broadband - connectile disfunction


Oh - and the worst, Van Heusen. Why did they spend the money???

So there.  If you didnt' actually see the commercials.  Here is a link.

http://sports.aol.com/nfl/superbowlads


posted by dale_ferrario Feb 04 2007, 09:58:27 PM PST Permalink Comments [1]

Comments:

The manufacturing geeks over at the Evolving Excellence blog (www.evolvingexcellence.com) are thrashing the GM commercial as well. Fundamentally they say the reason Toyota has such high quality is due to their respect for people, which creates employee continuous improvement suggestion programs, which robots can’t do. Instead of firing someone (or a robot) over a dropped screw, Toyota would get a team of people together to figure out what process failure led to the screw being dropped… not canning tens of years of experience for a mistake that probably wasn’t the person’s (robot’s) fault. It’s a good read: http://www.evolvingexcellence.com/blog/2007/02/gms_disrespect_.html

Posted by Lani on February 05, 2007 at 12:43 PM PST #

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