Super Bowl Sunday continues to prove its prowess in attracting masses towards its addictive and lucrative marketing strategies. Over the years, Super Bowl Ads have evolved and been shaped in different forms by the intervention of marketing strategies and the variations noticed in these strategies. Super Bowl Sunday has always been at the center of everyone’s busy schedule, proving to be a glorious moment on the weekend but at a closer glance, it partially focuses on football whereas the majority of the spotlight is on the commercials being aired. However, these commercials have become very elaborate, frequently discussed and financially more expensive than the previous years.
The rising price of the commercials on television has pushed the advertisers to employ the use of social media to promote their commercials. Online advertising is a fitting way to gain exposure for their products. One such example of the social media promotion includes YouTube which has made these ads widely available to the viewers and comparatively less expensive than television. However, the question remains of whether the Super Bowl Commercials have improved or not, over the last few years? From an analytical perspective, ads are meant to present meaning to the public, something for them to remember and promote them to buy their product. The ads from 1980’s seem to be on a much stronger standing than the present ones (Kim et al., 2005). The ads back then provided something for the viewers to remember, for instance, the commercial based on Apple’s Macintosh from 1984 or the Coca-Cola commercial from 1979 left the audience with a simple, productive and easy to remember the ad. Ads today are much more focused on presenting the celebrities to promote their product better. Marketers have found better ways to conceal their price tags and discovered better ways of tempting the customer. The main idea behind Super Bowl Ads is to bring forth something that is relatively different from all of the others, something that can set a market standard. Apple’s Macintosh Ad from 1984 is one such example and Micheal Hiltzik agreed with it in Los Angeles Times, mentioning that Apple set a standard back then and introduced a trend that other ads need to follow (Kim & Cheong 2011).
References
Kim, J., McMillan, S. J., & Hwang, J. S. (2005). Strategies for the super bowl of advertising: An analysis of how the web is integrated into campaigns. Journal of Interactive Advertising, 6(1), 46-60.
Kim, K., & Cheong, Y. (2011). Creative strategies of Super Bowl commercials 2001-2009: an analysis of message strategies. International Journal of Sports Marketing and Sponsorship, 13(1), 2-17.
