Why was the Bob Dylan Super Bowl ad so bad? Why was the Coca-Cola ad so good? Part of it, in both cases, was the execution; Chrysler seems to have picked a fair number of the images for the Dylan ad from the postcard rack at a mid-level stationery store.
After MSNBC landed in hot water for predicting a right-wing backlash against a Cheerios Super Bowl ad featuring a mixed-race family, a completely different ad inspired a #BoycottCoke Twitter hashtag pegged to Coca Cola's
The only commercial to make both lists was Coca-Cola's feel good anthem “America the Beautiful” sung in seven languages over scenes of Americans of different ethnicities spending time together. It was the new version of 1971 classic commercial “I'd
Coca-Cola aired a Super Bowl ad with "America the Beautiful" sung in numerous languages. It was sweet and forgettable—there are many things not to like about Coke, but their harmless pandering to the idea that America is,
By creating its "America the Beautiful" ad and paying the money needed to broadcast it during the Super Bowl, the quintessential American event, Coke was reiterating true American values and betting heavily on an open, optimistic vision of this nation