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snowybirdie

(6,316 posts)
Sun Feb 13, 2022, 08:51 PM Feb 2022

Anyone else notice

The many commercials on Super Bowl from NBC? Didn't they sell out at $7 million for 30 seconds? Too expensive I think.

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Anyone else notice (Original Post) snowybirdie Feb 2022 OP
The commercials aren't that great this year I think. Irish_Dem Feb 2022 #1
It's such a boondoggle for NBC FakeNoose Feb 2022 #2
Well, to be honest, my TV was on NBC for about 5 hours. padfun Feb 2022 #5
Will never forget this one I_UndergroundPanther Feb 2022 #3
I love that ad. PoindexterOglethorpe Feb 2022 #4
It did seem excessive, but given how many ads they sold to Disney plus, netflix, etc, they RockRaven Feb 2022 #6
Cat herding was a classic IbogaProject Feb 2022 #7

FakeNoose

(38,530 posts)
2. It's such a boondoggle for NBC
Sun Feb 13, 2022, 09:20 PM
Feb 2022

The SuperBowl "warmup" show lasted 6 hours! This is like Black Friday for them.
They can lose money for the rest of the year and still come out even.


padfun

(1,877 posts)
5. Well, to be honest, my TV was on NBC for about 5 hours.
Sun Feb 13, 2022, 09:39 PM
Feb 2022

Nobody watching it as it was just noise in the background.
But it would still help their stats.

RockRaven

(17,829 posts)
6. It did seem excessive, but given how many ads they sold to Disney plus, netflix, etc, they
Mon Feb 14, 2022, 01:26 AM
Feb 2022

probably decided that taking that money to advertise their competitors couldn't go unbalanced by failing to sacrifice some ad time to push their shows/peacock.

IbogaProject

(4,915 posts)
7. Cat herding was a classic
Mon Feb 14, 2022, 02:00 PM
Feb 2022

Here is my all time favorite Superbowl ad. They did it like a movie promo ad with short few second soundbites name dropping the movie, and then they dropped the actual ad.

It wouldn't work now with the price so high being so long, but it was funny then.
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