Are you ready for some football? Ok, are you ready for some Super Bowl ads? Well, you don't have to wait until kickoff to see many of them.
We've got lots of them already! We've got them grouped by air time too.
So pop open a drink, grab some lunch or a snack, sit back and watch them now.
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Hyundai will air “Epic Play Date”, a :60 just prior to kickoff. The ad shows a family outing of skateboarding kids, dads doing donuts in the mud, family being chased by security guards, a biker gang and an ostrich. An original song by The Flaming Lips is the soundtrack and the band is featured throughout the ad.
Agency: Innocean
Watch it now: Hyundai Flaming Lips: Epic Play Date
Hyundai - Genesis :30 called “Excited” shows the car going around a racetrack with sportscaster Gus Johnson.
Hyundai - Santa Fe :30 called “Don’t Tell” which has been running shows a dad doing things with the kids but telling them “Don’t tell Mom”, and in the end, she’s doing the same thing.
Hyundai Santa Fe - Don't Tell Mom - (2013) :30 (USA)
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Volkswagen will air “Sunny Side” by Deutsch, featuring Jimmy Cliff covering the Partridge Family’s “Come On Get Happy”. Our friends at the Perlorian Brothers helped out with this as well.
Watch the ad, “Sunny Side” spot by Deutsch, featuring Jimmy Cliff covering the Partridge Family’s “Come On Get Happy”.
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OREO Cookies (Mondelez International) with a :30 that will mark it's first appearance in the Super Bowl ad fiesta. The spot focuses on Oreo devotee's preference for the cookie or the cream filling. The ad will direct fans to Instagram to continue the debate. Earlier in October, Mondelez International is pitting longtime ad agency of record, DraftFCB against Wieden + Kennedy to duke it out for the honor of developing the ad which will air.
Agency: Wieden & Kennedy
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Audi of America has a :60 spot titled “Prom” for the S6, where the car changes an awkward teen into a confident guy with a black eye. Audi has asked fans to pick an ending (similar to Coke’s ad campaign), with voting ending last Friday.
Agency: Venables Bell & Partners
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Best Buy is back, this time with a :30 spot featuring Amy Poehler. The reason for choosing Poehler? "Because of the complexity of technology today, folks have lots of questions," said Scott Durchslag, president of online and global e-commerce. "Amy is this comedic every person who can make things simple. And Best Buy is trying to accomplish the same thing - making technology simple."
Agency: CB+P
Watch the teaser:
Coca-Cola will air one 60-second spot titled “Mirage” during the first quarter. They’ve released part of the Super Bowl spot and are asking folks to vote on the ending at cokechase.com to see if the showgirls, cowboys or badlanders get the Coke in the end in a spot that will air at the end of the game. Each group also has their own hashtags as well, which one assumes will be taken into account on the voting as well. This follows in the heels of last year’s campaign that showed different ads based on who was winning in the game.
Agency: Wieden + Kennedy
Watch the teaser ad:
M&Ms (Mars) will have a :30 with more information to come. Their Facebook page shows the different colored candies sans candy coated shell. Perhaps that’s the follow-up to last year’s spot.
GoDaddy.com one of two 30-second spots titled “YourBigIdea.Co” for their .co domains. Either this or their other :30, “Perfect Date” featuring Danica Patrick and supermodel Bar Refaeli, will air in the second spot in the second commercial break of the game.
Agency: Deutsch NY
Watch YOUR BIG IDEA.co here
Hyundai - Sante Fe will air a :30 called “Team” where he rounds up a posse after being kicked off a football field by neighborhood kids.
Agency: Innocean
Toyota - 2014 RAV4 with a :60 starring Kaley Cuoco of “The Big Bang Theory”. It will also have a photo of one fan selected from submissions through Twitter and Instagram.
Watch the teaser called “I Wish” where Cuoco makes the lyrics of rapper Skee-Lo’s “I Wish” come to life:
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Anheuser-Busch InBev will have a handful of spots, totaling 4 ½ minutes, as usual, spread out among their different beverage lines. Budweiser Black Crown aired teasers during the NFC and AFC Championship games. Two spots will air during 1st Quarter.
Agency: Anomaly
Watch “Arrival”:
Watch “Debut”
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PepsiCo.'s Pepsi NEXT focuses on parents coming home to a party their son is throwing. At the end of the spot, viewers will be directed to a site to receive a coupon for a free 2-liter bottle. They plan on giving away a million coupons.
Agency: TBWA/Chiat/Day
Cars.com with one 30-second ad possibly kicking off a new campaign.
Agency: mcgarrybowen
Watch the teasers:
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Calvin Klein will air a :30 featuring Matthew Terry to promote a new line of underwear for men.
Watch the teaser:
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Sketchers with a :30 will bring back Mr. Quiggly to promote the GOrun Performace footwear. Spot will air just before the two-minute warning before halftime.
Agency: Siltanen & Partners Advertising
Hyundai - Sonata Turbo will air a :30 called “Stuck” where the idea showcases how the car can solve the problem of being stuck behind a vehicle carrying ominous cargo.
Agency: Innocean
Hyundai Sonata Turbo - Stuck (2013) :30 (USA)
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Milk Processor Education Program: this :30 will be the first for the company. The ad uses Dwayne Johnson, a.k.a. The Rock, for a look at how far a father will go to get milk for his kid’s breakfast. The ad is just part of a larger campaign that will be running sponsored by the National Football League and the National Dairy Council.
Agency: Deutsch
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Anheuser-Busch InBev will have a handful of spots, totaling 4 ½ minutes, as usual, spread out among their different beverage lines. Budweiser tells the story of a young Clydesdale and his trainer.
Agency: Anomaly.
Director: Jake Scott
Watch the Clydesdale clip here:
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Taco Bell bought a :60 called "Viva Young" featuring a Spanish version of Fun’s “We are Young.”
Agency: Deutsch, Los Angeles
Taco Bell Super Bowl Spot: “Viva Young” 1:00 (USA)
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Anheuser-Busch InBev will have a handful of spots, totaling 4 ½ minutes, as usual, spread out among their different beverage lines. One Bud Light ad tying into the “Superstitious” campaign will air in this quarter, with the other in the 3rd Quarter.
Agency: Translation
Watch the teasers, “Lucky Chair” and “Very Superstitious”:
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Volkswagen is running a :60 spot "Get Happy" that will tie back to its “Why VW” campaign featuring “simple, human stories” told by owners. Enter Dave and his newfound sunny disposition, confusing the entire office as it manifests itself in a curious way. Yeah he be jamaican mon. It's apparently a side effect from driving poppy red VW beetles, mon. Tom Kuntz, known for the Old Spice ads, directed.
Watch the ad: Volkswagen super bowl ad - Get Happy / Chill bossman - (2013) :60 (USA)
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PepsiCo.'s Pepsi will us the ad time will promote the brand and halftime show, both of which feature Beyonce. (See shot of her on set here. The ad will incorporate photos of customers doing specific movements, such as shouting, head bopping, and feet tapping.
Pepsi Next - Party - (2013) - 0:30 - (USA)<&a>
Agency: Mekanism
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Ford Lincoln will air a :90 titled “Steer The Script”, which started earlier as a Twitter campaign asking fans to tweet their thoughts on the brand using #SteerTheScript, which Jimmy Falon will then turn into the commercial. The ad features RevRun, Wil Wheaton, and Emmitt Smith. This is the brand’s first Super Bowl spot.
Agency: in-house agency HudsonRouge
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Century 21 will debut a 30-second spot early in this quarter that continues a campaign telling the story of Century 21 agents.
Agency: Red Tettemer of Philadelphia
Watch the ad Century 21 Wedding"
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Gildan Activewear will have a :30 ad called “Getaway” for their Gildan line focusing on how far a man will go after he realizes he leaves behind his favorite shirt (Gildan of course) after a one-night stand.
Agency: DeVito/Verdi, New York
Watch "Gildan Activewear Getaway"
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Hyundai/Kia Sorento “HotBots” is a :40 featuring the redesigned 2014 Forte. At the unveiling, a man kicks the tires and is punished by a “hotbot”.
Agency: David and Goliath
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E*Trade has a :30 with the talking baby. Again.
Agency: Grey, New York
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Speed Stick is in the game with a :30 titled “Laundry”, which is part of the “Sweating on the inside? Handle it on the outside” campaign. The spot was the result of a Twitter contest asking for their “Handle It Moments”. The Tongal online creative community was then used to produce the ideas. Guys will be invited to tweet their own #handleit moments during the game, and NFL NY Giants player Victor Cruz will be tweeting his own moments as well.
Agency: Red Fuse New York
Watch Speed Stick Unattaended Laundry:
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Mio (Kraft Foods) will air a :30 featuring Tracy Morgan who runs down the things that have changed, including sports drinks, to introduce the Mio Fit.
Agency: Taxi New York
Watch the teasers:
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Anheuser-Busch InBev will have a handful of spots, totaling 4 ½ minutes, as usual, spread out among their different beverage lines. One Bud Light ad tying into the “Superstitious” campaign will air in this quarter, with the other in the 3rd Quarter.
Agency: Translation
Watch the teasers, “Lucky Chair” and “Very Superstitious”:
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Tide is back with a :30 as official laundry detergent of the NFL. The spot will feature both teams in the game.
Agency: Saatchi & Saatchi
Watch the teaser for Tide Stain Savers:
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Anheuser-Busch InBev will have a handful of spots, totalling 4 ½ minutes, as usual spread out among their different beverage lines. Becks Sapphire will run a :30 featuring an animated black goldfish singing a version of “No Diggity” by Australian musician Chet Faker. Agency: Mother
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Unliever’s Axe Apollo will air a 30-second spot, titled “Lifeguard” that will also promote the brand’s Axe Apollo Sweepstakes where it is “recruiting a few brave civilians for the opportunity of a lifetime--a trip to space.” They have even scored Buzz Aldrin to help promote it as well. This is the brand’s first appearance in the Big Game.
Agency: BBH London
Watch it now:
You can also check out the sweepstakes website here.
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Wonderful Pistachios has a :30 with “Gangnam Style” rapper PSY. Guaranteed the copy will be “Psy does it “Gangnam Style.”” ;) Digital extension features fans uploading a picture of how they “Get Crackin’ Gangnam Style” for a chance to win a LEASE for a year of a 2013 Mercedes Benz SLK 250. A lease? C’mon. Buy someone the winner the car. Really.
Agency: The Fire Station (in-house)
Watch the teaser:
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Hyundai/Kia Sorento has a :60 titled “Space Babies” which reveals the existence of a faraway planet known as “Babylandia” and follows infant boys, girls, dogs, pandas, etc on their journey to Earth to join new families.
Agency: David and Goliath
Watch it now:
Mercedes Benz will air a :60 spot premiering a new CLA featuring Kate Upton and Usher with a "tongue-in-cheek depiction of how far a person might — or might not — go to get their heart’s desire" (read: Upton). Music eatures The Rolling Stone’s “Sympathy for the Devil”.
Agency: Merkley Partners
Watch the spot now:
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Subway Restaurants will be back with a :30 spot featuring Robert Griffin III, Ryan Howard and a host of other athletes, which celebrates 15 years of spokesman Jared's successful weight loss. It’s the brand’s first ad since 2005.
SodaStream has a :30 that will be airing. The ad will “reveal a fresh take on its provocative new campaign”, “The SodaStream Effect” which was banned in the UK but has been airing in the USA for the past couple months. The Big Game ad was supposed to be a revised version made specifically for the game, “based on the same creative centerpiece.”
On Friday @Bogusky tweeted this, which means their work has been left on the cutting room floor after some debate as to if it could air without “disparaging other soda companies.”
Bummed. CBS rejected the SodaStream Superbowl commercial I was working on. But SodaStream is still in the game w an older spot we tweaked.
— Alex Bogusky (@bogusky) January 25, 2013
It is also another brand new to the Big Game.
Agency: COMMON agency
Current spot below. Also see kidsleepy's post here.
GoDaddy.com one of two 30-second spots titled “YourBigIdea.Co” for their .co domains. Either this or their other :30, “Perfect Date” featuring Danica Patrick and supermodel Bar Refaeli, will air after the two minute warning.
Agency: Deutsch NY
Watch it: Go Daddy Your Big Idea
Coca-Cola will air a 30-second spot with the results of voting on the ending of “Mirage” airing in the first quarter of the Super Bowl. Folks to vote on the ending at cokechase.com to see if the showgirls, cowboys or badlanders get the Coke in the end in a spot that will air at the end of the game. Each group also has their own hastags as well, which one assumes will be taken into account on the voting as well.
Agency: Wieden + Kennedy
Watch the teaser:
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Samsung will have a 2-minute spot titled “The Big Pitch” starring Seth Rogan, Paul Rudd and Bob Odenkirk. Directed by Jon Favreau. An extended cut version with never-been-seen footage will be released later this week. Consumers will have the opportunity to weigh in on their favorite moments and win prizes using the hashtag #TheNextBigThing. The ad features the Galaxy family of products including the Galaxy Note™ II, Galaxy S® III and Galaxy Note™ 10.1.
Agency: 72 and Sunny
Watch Samsung Mobile Next big thing now:
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Toyota with a :45 cut of the spot “Let’s go places” brand campaign.
Toyota - Tundra with a :30 cut of the spot where the truck tows the Endeavor Space Shuttle in Los Angeles.
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PepsiCo.'s Frito-Lay/Doritos will be back with two "Crash the Superbowl" spots. Air times TBD.
Finalists include: “Road Chip”, “FETCH”, “Fashionista Daddy”, “Goat 4 Sale” and “Express Checkout”.
Chrysler Still no new news for Chrysler. Let's see who they pull out this time for their "Imported from Detroit" campaign. Last year's ad featured Clint Eastwood and the year before that they used Eminem (and are still using his music in the ads running now).
Agency: Wieden & Kennedy
Chrysler FIAT Chrysler marketing chief says there are five new Fiat ads that could be used. All of the :30 spots were previewed at the Los Angeles Auto Show and feature different “everyday” situations. Air time TBD.
Agency: Wieden & Kennedy
Watch one of the potential ads, “Topless”, for the new FIAT 500 Abarth Cabrio which brings back supermodel Catrinel Menghia:
RIM (Research In Motion) will run a :30 for the new BlackBerry 10 smartphone.
Agency: AMV BBDO London
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MillerCoors is purchasing time on local TV stations in the Great Lakes and Southeast for a 15-second ad for Redd’s Apple Ale.
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Quill.com - Dunder Mifflin is airing a :30 from a crowd-sourced campaign run by Tongal that will air only in Scranton, PA during the 3rd Quarter.
Watch dunder mifflin-paper war cat:
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