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Century 21 released several of their new 2013 Super Bowl XLVII Pre-Game ads. They are a sponsor of the pre-game broadcast.

Century 21 released several of their new 2013 Super Bowl XLVII Pre-Game ads. They are a sponsor of the pre-game broadcast.

Century 21 released several of their new 2013 Super Bowl XLVII Pre-Game ads. They are a sponsor of the pre-game broadcast.

Wheat Thins, the snack known for its complex taste and satisfying crunch, today announced the launch of its new “Must. Have. Wheat Thins.” campaign with a new television ad debuting in the Super Bowl pre-game. The television spot, which airs between 5:30 p.m. EST and the start of the 6 p.m. broadcast on Sunday, Feb. 3, was inspired by Wheat Thins’ most passionate fans and depicts the intense relationship they have with the brand by showcasing a man so passionate about his Spicy Buffalo Wheat Thins he’ll do nearly anything to protect them from even the most unexpected intruders—even a yeti!

“We talked to some of our most enthusiastic fans and were pleased to hear about the deep connection they have with the Wheat Thins brand,” said Katie Williams, Senior Marketing Director at Mondelez International. “The goal of this campaign is to celebrate those who already love us, entice others to discover that love and reward our consumers’ passion for the brand in meaningful ways.”

In addition to the new ad, Wheat Thins will support the new “Must. Have. Wheat Thins.” campaign with a social media promotion in the weeks leading up to the big game, one of the biggest snacking occasions of the year. Wheat Thins understands that many fans are just as devoted to football as they are their favorite snack, and to ensure its most passionate fans never run out of their all-important game time snacks, is challenging consumers across the country to determine whether San Francisco’s or Baltimore’s fans deserve free Wheat Thins. Fans can share their love for one of the two cities by voting on Twitter and Instagram with #SF #MUSTHAVEWHEATTHINS or #BAL #MUSTHAVEWHEATTHINS. In the winning city with the most social ‘noise,’ or votes, Wheat Thins will be making snack runs on Feb. 3, delivering free products so fans can enjoy their favorite snacks without missing a single play. For complete rules, please visit www.musthavewheatthins.com.

The second ad in the “Must. Have. Wheat Thins.” campaign will feature a particularly frustrated fan unable to eat Wheat Thins — in this case, a puppet!

Both ads were produced by creative agency BEING. Ideas and innovation agency AKQA developed the digital experience. Look for future developments in the “Must. Have. Wheat Thins.” campaign on YouTube at http://www.youtube.com/wheatthins, on Facebook at www.facebook.com/wheatthins or on Twitter @wheatthins.

Hoping to see the same kind of boost in website traffic that it did last year, Century 21 Real Estate is creating four separate ads as part of its second consecutive Super Bowl XLVII TV ad campaign.

Last year’s Super Bowl campaign on NBC — the first by a residential real estate company in 21 years — included three separate 30-second spots depicting Century 21 agents besting real estate mogul Donald Trump, NFL Hall of Famer Deion Sanders, and U.S. Olympic speed-skating gold medalist Apollo Ohno.

This year’s Super Bowl ad will continue the “Smarter, Bolder, Faster” theme developed in conjunction with the franchisor’s 40-year anniversary in 2011, said Century 21 chief marketing officer Bev Thorne, who was in Los Angeles overseeing their production.

In this year’s spots, Century 21 agents will be the celebrities, Thorne said. The ads will have a fun, ironic feel, she said, and carry the theme “There’s a Century 21 agent in the house.”

Century 21 is sponsoring an hour long pre-game show. And have an ad in the early part of the 3rd quarter of Super Bowl XLVII.

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Century 21 is planning to advertise in the Super Bowl for the first time ever — and in a big way, with a 30-second spot in the third quarter, plus 11 pre-game ads, and a sponsorship of a half-hour block of the pregame show on NBC.

Century 21′s new “Smarter, bolder, faster” campaign which focuses on its’ agents is expected to be the foundation for the Super Bowl work. Although, Beverly Thorne, Century 21′s chief marketing officer remains silent about the Super Bowl creative. “I can’t and won’t reveal the creative yet. We will reveal it before the game itself. But what I can tell you is, absolutely our creative is very focused heavily on the power, strength and knowledge of our agent, who is smarter, bolder, faster.”

The ads are being handled by independent shop Red Tettemer & Partners of Philadelphia, the marketer’s creative and digital shop. Century 21′s media-buying agency is WPP’s Mediacom, while PR and social media are handled by Interpublic Group of Cos.’ Mullen.

Read More: AdAge.

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The Chicago-based daily deals juggernaut spurned Google’s $6 billion acquisition offer last month and closed nearly $1 billion in funding. Now it’s kicking off its most ambitious marketing blitz yet in the biggest way possible: at the Super Bowl. Groupon will pay $2.3 million for a pre-game placement.

For now Groupon has been keeping its cards close to its vest about the ad, which will likely be quirky. Groupon is known for its lighthearted, sometimes obtuse descriptions of the businesses it partners with, and CEO Andrew Mason has his own oddball streak

Read More at: MediaLife Magazine

Here’s a look at what Super Bowl ads and advertisers are generating the most buzz leading up to this year’s game:

Anheuser-Busch, annually a contender for the best Super Bowl spot, has posted stills from its commercials on its Bud Light Facebook page and is challenging fans to guess the storylines of each in advance of Sunday’s game.

The Bud Clydesdales will appear in a 60-second ad with a Wild West theme that was teased in last weekend’s NFC and AFC championship games.

Anheuser-Busch is using one of its spots to promote Belgian beer Stella Artois, a company first. It’s a reminder that the U.S. brewer was acquired by InBev, which produces Stella, a few years ago.

Wildly popular Old Spice Guy, Isaiah Mustafa, will return in ads that will debut Feb 7th. (the day after the Super Bowl) Old Spice is expecting to snag some of the day after water-cooler talk. One lucky “super fan” will be given the spot before it airs.

A commercial with teen phenom singer Justin Bieber and Ozzy Osborne will appear in an ad for Best Buy about the retail chain’s new return policy.

Former sitcom stars Roseanne Barr and Richard Lewis are appearing in Snickers’ ad.

Doritos and PepsiMax’s ads were again created by consumers. Voting for your favorite ends Sunday at midnight.

Groupon is ready to take a bigger step into America’s homes. The social buying-powered website is normally passed through word of mouth and through member emails, but now they are buying some pre-game Super Bowl ads to make their brand even more well known, Ad Age reports.

After turning down an acquisition offer from Google, (for $6 Billion) Groupon has hired Groupe’s Starcom as their media agency of record and is expected to partner with MDC Partners’ Crispin Porter & Bogusky to help with their traditional advertising campaign. The agency is known for quirky ads including some for high-profile clients Burger King and the Volkswagen Beetle.

Why didn’t they go for advertising during the big game instead? Two industry executives tell Ad Age that it wasn’t for lack of trying or money issues. Super Bowl ads, which go for $3 million a 30 second slot, were just sold out by the time Groupon tried to get some time. As for Groupon’s biggest competitor, Living Social, the story says they are content spending 95 percent of their advertising budget online and have no plans on making TV commercials.

NEW YORK – Fox Broadcasting has sold more than 90 percent of its Super Bowl advertising time, with prices running at an average of about $3 million for a 30-second spot, a source familiar with the matter said Wednesday.

Strong, early sales for the 2011 National Football League championship game suggest that advertisers are as willing as ever to pay up for the chance to reach a U.S. television audience of more than 100 million viewers, despite worries about the economy and budget constraints.

In describing sales, the source said “just a handful” of time slots remain for Super Bowl XLV, which will be played on February 6 in Texas.

A year ago at this time, CBS had sold roughly 70 percent of the time it had available for the 2010 Super Bowl. It eventually sold out, with prices running at nearly $3 million for a spot.

A spokesman for Fox declined to comment on pricing details for the Super Bowl.

Already, one major marketer, PepsiCo has said it will run at least six 30-second commercials during the Super Bowl. U.S. automaker General Motors also will return in 2011 after a two-year break to save money.

Coca-Cola Co and beer maker Anheuser-Busch InBev also are typically among the game’s biggest advertisers. Neither one has made public specific plans for the 2011 game.

The CBS broadcast of the 2010 game between the New Orleans Saints and the Indianapolis Colts attracted more than 106 million U.S. TV viewers, eclipsing the record set in 1983 for the finale of the TV series “M+A+S+H.”

BY DAVID THOMAS

dthomas@star-telegram.com

Super Bowl XLV is 200 days away. The first NFL teams have yet to report for training camps. There are teams, however, already developing their Super Bowl game plans: the companies that will push their products and services from the stage of the world’s largest single-day sporting event.

Companies have thrived and nose-dived based on Super Bowl viewers’ opinions of their brand — all based on television commercials.

With the countdown clock already ticking for potential Super Bowl XLV advertisers, here are 45 things to know about Super Bowl commercials:

1. One-minute commercials during Super Bowl I cost $75,000 on NBC and $85,000 on CBS. (Both networks broadcast the game.) One 30-second commercial during the last Super Bowl cost up to $3 million.

2. The average 30-second commercial price reached $1 million for the first time in 1995. The $2 million mark was first topped in 2000, and commercial costs reached $3 million for the first time in 2009.

3. Commercial slots during the first quarter typically are the most expensive, with slots in the fourth quarter the least expensive.

4. Fifty-one percent of people surveyed by The Nielsen Company in January said they watch the Super Bowl for the commercials. Also, commercials viewed during the first quarter tended to be the most remembered and the most liked.

5. The second-half kickoff of Super Bowl I had to be replayed because NBC was airing a Winston cigarettes commercial when the kickoff took place.

6. Farrah Fawcett and Joe Namath promoted Noxzema in the first high-profile Super Bowl ad, aired in 1973 during Super Bowl VII. The commercial featured Fawcett playfully spreading Noxzema shaving cream across Namath’s face.

7. Apple’s groundbreaking, George Orwell-inspired “1984″ commercial during Super Bowl XVIII (1984) introduced consumers to the Macintosh personal computer. It also ushered in a new era of Super Bowl commercials and is widely considered the most impacting Super Bowl ad ever.

8. The original plan called for the Apple commercial to run Jan. 1 during college bowl games, but the commercial was pushed back to the Super Bowl because Macintosh’s launch date was scheduled for late January.

9. Apple bought 90 seconds of commercial time for Super Bowl XVIII. But when Apple’s board of directors strongly disliked the “1984″ commercial, Apple sold 30 seconds of its slot and, eventually, decided to run the commercial anyway. The commercial cost almost $1 million to produce and ran only one other time on television — early morning on a small Idaho television station so that the commercial would be eligible for advertising awards.

10. Apple sold 72,000 Macintosh computers during the first 100 days the product was available after Super Bowl XVIII — 44 percent above projections.

11. The following year, during Super Bowl XIX, Apple followed up its super “1984″ effort with one of the worst ads in Super Bowl history. Sales dropped after the “Lemmings” commercial, Apple suffered through financial difficulties, and the company didn’t advertise in another Super Bowl for more than a decade.

12. New York Giants quarterback Phil Simms (Super Bowl XXI, 1987) was the first player to be filmed on the field after a Super Bowl for an “I’m going to Disney World” commercial.

13. Two Dallas Cowboys players have appeared in “I’m going to Disney World” commercials from Super Bowls: Emmitt Smith (XXVIII and XXX) and Troy Aikman (XXVII).

14. The first Bud Bowl was held in 1989, during Super Bowl XXIII. Using stop-action to play out the game, producers needed about 10 hours to shoot two seconds of commercial action. Bud Bowls appeared in eight Super Bowls.

15. Doritos’ consumer-produced “Snack Attack Samurai” commercial during last year’s Super Bowl was the most-watched TV ad ever.

16. Of the 10 commercials most replayed on TiVo during last year’s Super Bowl, nine occurred during the first half.

17. Master Lock is considered one of Super Bowl advertising’s greatest success stories. The small company paid $107,000 for a 30-second spot during Super Bowl VIII in 1974, and the gamble paid off big-time. In that commercial, a sharpshooter shot a bullet from a high-powered rifle into a Master Lock padlock, but the padlock remained locked. Public trust in its products enabled the small company to become the world’s largest manufacturer of padlocks. Although Super Bowl commercials used up most of Master Lock’s annual advertising budget, the company aired commercials in 21 Super Bowls before announcing in 1997 it no longer would advertise during the game.

18. Burger King’s Herb the Nerd campaign during Super Bowl XX in 1986 is considered one of the biggest flops in Super Bowl advertising history. Consumers showed little interest in following the campaign’s theme of finding Herb, who had never eaten at Burger King, and the multimillion dollar campaign is still remembered for the wrong reasons.

19. “Wassup” became a part of the American vocabulary because of an Anheuser-Busch commercial that first aired on Monday Night Football, but hit it big during Super Bowl XXXIV (2000).

20. The Coca-Cola commercial featuring “Mean Joe” Greene sharing a Coke and a smile with a kid consistently rates as one of the favorite Super Bowl commercials. However, the commercial did not debut during a Super Bowl. The ad first aired during the 1979 regular season, then aired in the following Super Bowl (XIV).

21. The Mean Joe Coke commercial led to a 1981 made-for-TV movie titled The Steeler and the Pittsburgh Kid, in which Greene played himself.

22. Coca-Cola’s peace-promoting commercial featuring young people from around the world singing “I’d like to teach the world to sing” made its Super Bowl debut in 1972 in Super Bowl VI. The commercial, titled “Hilltop,” aired for six years. The commercial was recreated for Super Bowl XXIV in 1990 and included some of the original commercial’s actors and their children.

23. Budweiser’s Clydesdales first appeared during Super Bowl XX in 1986 and have been in more than a dozen Super Bowl ads.

24. Spuds MacKenzie, Bud Light’s official party dog, made his Super Bowl debut in 1987 during Super Bowl XXI. Although a male in commercials, Spuds actually was a female bull terrier named Honey Tree Evil Eye.

25. Louie, one of Budweiser’s lizards that first appeared at Super Bowl XXXII in 1998, made it onto the paint scheme of the car driven by NASCAR’s Ricky Craven.

26. Seventeen “dot-com” companies advertised during Super Bowl XXXIV in 2000, making up almost half of the advertisers. But that number dropped to three the following year because of the dot-com bust. One of the three survivors was E*Trade, which featured a monkey riding a horse past failed dot-com companies.

27. For Super Bowl XXVI, broadcast on CBS in 1992, Frito-Lay sponsored Fox’s “In Living Color Super Halftime Party” that tempted viewers to switch over to the rival network during halftime of the game. The next year, Frito-Lay became the first national sponsor of the Super Bowl’s halftime show, which featured Michael Jackson.

28. AOL was the sponsor of the infamous “wardrobe malfunction” halftime show with Janet Jackson and Justin Timberlake (Super Bowl XXXVIII, 2004).

29. Before Super Bowl XXXIX in 2005 — one year after the “wardrobe malfunction” — Fox rejected a commercial for cold remedy product Airborne that included a brief shot of 84-year-old actor Mickey Rooney’s bare rear end.

30. MillerCoors aired a one-second commercial for its Miller High Life brand during Super Bowl XLIII in 2009. The ad did not run in all parts of the country. MillerCoors had to purchase the spot through local NBC outlets because Anheuser-Busch held exclusive national alcohol advertising rights for the Super Bowl.

31. Xerox pushed its 9200 Duplicating System during Super Bowl XI (1977) with a monk named Brother Dominic who produced 500 sets of a manuscript with the copier instead of by hand. When the monk returned the copies to the monastery, the father declared, “It’s a miracle.” Religion had yet to be presented in such a humorous manner in commercials, and Xerox officials were concerned that the commercial could be viewed as blasphemous. But the commercial was well-received and started an advertising campaign that lasted through 1982.

32. The Xerox commercial boasted that the 9200 system could copy and assemble sets “at the incredible rate of two pages per second.”

33. McDonald’s reported a sales increase of 22 percent after advertising in Super Bowl III.

34. In the year after Go Daddy advertised in Super Bowl XXXIX (2005) for the first time, the domain name registrar saw its active sites increase by 136 percent. That boosted Go Daddy to become the world’s largest Web hosting firm.

35. The Journal of Advertising Research reported in 2004 that movies promoted during a Super Bowl earned twice as much at the box office during their debut week than movies not promoted during a Super Bowl.

36. Researchers at the University of Buffalo tracked 529 Super Bowl commercials from 1989-2005 and found that companies with the 10 most-liked ads each year saw their stock prices increase a quarter of a percent on the Monday after the Super Bowl. With companies that advertise during the Super Bowl having an average market value of about $30 billion, that quarter-percent gain represented about an $80 million increase in one day.

37. One of the worst-received Super Bowl commercials was Just for Feet’s “Kenya Mission” spot during Super Bowl XXXIII (1999). In the commercial, four white mercenaries in a Humvee chased a Kenyan runner, gave him a drug-laced drink that knocked him unconscious, then put running shoes on him under the motto of “To serve and protect feet.” Just for Feet sued its advertising agency — the suit later was dropped — and filed for bankruptcy later that year.

38. Publisher’s Clearing House began announcing its winner on live television during Super Bowl broadcasts in 1995, for Super Bowl XXIX. Nervous that the winner would not be home, a member of the PCH prize patrol posed as a Super Bowl commercial surveyor and called the winner the weekend of the big game to learn whether the winner would be watching at home. It turns out that 62-year-old Phoenix accountant Mary Ann Brandt planned to watch the Super Bowl at her son’s home. That’s where the prize patrol found her, and she answered the door eating chicken and looking into the cameras and at a $10 million check.

39. At Super Bowl XXVIII (1994), Reebok aired a commercial near the end of the game that was filmed and edited during the game. To promote its InstaPump shoes, Reebok purchased the last spot of the game. The commercial was supposed to be delivered to NBC with five minutes to spare, but instead was turned in a little less than three minutes before air time.

40. After the Buffalo Bills’ Thurman Thomas scored a touchdown in the second quarter of that game, Reebok producers planned to feature him in the InstaPump commercial. But when he fumbled in the third quarter, Thomas was scrapped. (Although Reebok’s cameramen continued to shoot Thomas just in case.) When the Cowboys’ Emmitt Smith scored a touchdown in the third quarter, he became the star of the commercial. He also wound up being selected the game’s Most Valuable Player.

41. TNS Media Intelligence research discovered that from 1990-2009, Anheuser-Busch spent $311.8 million on Super Bowl advertisements. The rest of the top five biggest spenders: PepsiCo ($254.2 million), General Motors ($80.5 million), Walt Disney ($71.6) and Time Warner ($64.8).

42. During that 20-year period, according to TNS, the Super Bowl generated $2.17 billion of network sales, with 210 advertisers and more than 1,400 commercials.

43. The “Where’s the beef?” line from Wendy’s commercial during Super Bowl XVIII in 1984 worked its way into the world of politics later that year. Walter Mondale helped gain the Democratic nomination for president by asking, “Where’s the beef?” when criticizing Gary Hart’s campaign platform.

44. PepsiCo ended a run of 23 consecutive years with a Super Bowl commercial at the last Super Bowl. That came a year after PepsiCo had secured exclusive non-alcoholic beverage advertising rights for the entire first half.

45. Commercials accounted for almost 48 minutes of last year’s Super Bowl — the most ever.

Sources: The Super Bowl of Advertising: How the Commercials Won the Game, Frito-Lay, MSNBC.com, Advertising Age, Adweek, The New York Times, Miami Herald, The Tampa Tribune.

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Preview the 2010 Budweiser Select 55 Commercial here.

SELECT 55 — The Lightest Beer in the World — Launches Nationwide

Brand to be Featured in Anheuser-Busch Super Bowl Ad Feb. 7

ST. LOUIS, Feb. 1 /PRNewswire/ — Following its success in test markets, SELECT 55 — the lightest beer in the world — will launch nationwide on Feb. 1, answering a growing demand among a segment of adult drinkers who are seeking lower-calorie alcohol beverages to complement their busy lifestyles.

Whether adult drinkers are looking for light refreshment after a busy day or if they simply enjoy delicious low-calorie foods and beverages, SELECT 55 offers an unparalleled clean, crisp flavor with fewer calories than any other beer currently available.

Hitting store shelves across the country as the football season draws to its dramatic close, SELECT 55 will receive a boost in initial awareness when it airs its first national TV ad during CBS’ broadcast of Super Bowl XLIV.

“We’d be hard-pressed to find a better way to introduce millions of adult beer drinkers to the lightest beer in the world than to feature the brand as part of our Super Bowl ad lineup,” said Keith Levy, vice president of marketing, Anheuser-Busch, Inc. “We’ve been encouraged by the positive response SELECT 55 has received in test markets and are pleased to now offer it to consumers nationwide. Our Innovations and brewing teams have once again successfully collaborated to give the consumer what they want.”

A smooth, light golden lager with 55 calories and 1.9g carbohydrates per each 12-ounce serving, SELECT 55 is made with caramel malts and a blend of imported and domestic hopping. Brewed to complement the full flavor of Budweiser SELECT, SELECT 55 features a unique recipe that gives the beer its crisp finish with aroma notes of toasted malt and subtle hopping.

SELECT 55′s launch will be supported by an all-new Web site — Select55.com — that will provide a unique online community for adult beer drinkers, with daily news and updates via “The Lightest Blog in the World,” and a place for fans of SELECT 55 to interact.

Brewed at Anheuser-Busch’s Los Angeles, St. Louis and Williamsburg breweries, SELECT 55 is available in 12-ounce, clear glass bottles in 6-, 12- and 24-packs, and 12-ounce aluminum cans in 12- and 18-packs.

Based in St. Louis, Anheuser-Busch is the leading American brewer, holding a 49.2 percent share of U.S. beer sales. The company brews the world’s largest-selling beers, Budweiser and Bud Light. Anheuser-Busch also owns a 50 percent share in Grupo Modelo, Mexico’s leading brewer. Anheuser-Busch ranked No. 1 among beverage companies in FORTUNE Magazine’s Most Admired Global Companies list in 2009. Anheuser-Busch is a major manufacturer of aluminum cans and one of the world’s largest recyclers of aluminum cans. The company is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Anheuser-Busch InBev, the leading global brewer, and continues to operate under the Anheuser-Busch name and logo. For more information, visit www.anheuser-busch.com or www.Select55.com.

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