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February 5, 2017 2 Comments

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Super Bowl ads are running $5 million for a 30 second spot this year, twice what they cost 10 years ago. But the ad itself is increasingly only the start.

Brands are now investing an extra 25% on top of the media spend to advertise the ads they’re advertising in the Super Bowl.

“There’s become more of a ‘game around the game’ in terms of ensuring that really pays off in a big way,” said Mary Scott from a sports marketing agency called UEG.

That emphasis on the “game around the game” is an interesting shift and evolution from when brands first started teasing ads before the game in 2011.

Marketers are looking for more creative and immersive ways to up the ante. Snickers is introducing the first live Super Bowl commercial, along with a 36-hour live stream.

“It’s more and more difficult for people to talk about the ad and see our ad and get noticed, so that’s why we are taking an approach that is more about creating a platform. Television advertising continues to be an important part, but on its own it’s not enough anymore,” said Mars VP Berta De Pablos-Barbier.

I was struck by this comment from Mark DiMassimo, CEO of ad agency DiMassimo Goldstein.

“It used to be, ‘We need a Super Bowl spot.’ Then, it was, ‘We need a Super Bowl spot and program. Now, it’s we need a Super Bowl stunt or event. It needs to be newsworthy, social and surprising – and it needs to be much bigger than 30 seconds.”

Here are a few cartoons I’ve drawn about Super Bowl advertising over the years.

“Marketers’ Super Bowl Party“, January 2003

“Super Bowl Advertising“, February 2007

“The Social Super Bowl“, February 2012

“Super Bowl Advertising“, February 2013

“Real-Time Marketing“, February 2014

“Ambush Marketing“, February 2016

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  1. Woody Savage says

    February 6, 2017 at 7:00 am

    Maybe the best Superbowl ad should be won by a coin toss … just like Superbowl 51 was won in overtime by the Patriots…the Atlanta Falcons offense never had an opportunity to take the field!

    Just flip a coin to see whose commercial we get to watch!!!!

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  2. Mike Atyeo says

    February 6, 2017 at 10:01 am

    Sigh! Some kind of sad ironic inevitability here: Marketers marketing Marketing. Promoting themselves, as much as any of the ‘brands.’

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