With a game that turned out to be something of a snoozer — at least if you enjoy offense — the commercials during Super Bowl 50 didn't do their part to save the day. Most of the spots, which cost $166,000 a second, failed to generate much buzz
The product: Mountain Dew Kickstart. The premise: Mountain Dew is not the first company to riff on the fact that the best Super Bowl commercials contain either a puppy, a monkey or a baby. The punchline: But they are the first to put them together to
Some made us cry, others made us cry laughing. Here are the most memorable commercials of Super Bowl 50. T-Mobile: “Restricted Bling”. Drake and a trio of suits managed to make an overplayed song the center of a very funny joke in T-Mobile's Super
The verdict: It's hard to miss the O.J. Simpson parallels in this commercial (“it's a chase that some are calling the chase of the century,” a news anchor says), which happens to star “The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story” actor Chris Bauer.
A National Retail Federation survey finds that nearly 18 percent of Super Bowl viewers will be watching not for the game, but for COMMERCIALS. So which ones will score big tonight? Here's Anna Werner: