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Marketing Nuggets
Your marketing mentor & biggest cheerleader, here to share the real, messy, beautiful truth about what it takes to level up your marketing, productivity, and confidence. Whether you're drowning in B2B complexity, chasing B2C creativity, or staring at a to-do list that feels impossible, I'm spilling everything from my 12+ years that I wish I'd known.
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Marketing Nuggets
138: Big Game Commercials 2026: Marketing Lessons You Can Steal
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The Big Game commercials are basically the Olympics of marketing: massive budgets, insane pressure, and the whole internet judging your work in real time.
In this episode, we’re breaking down the best, worst, weirdest, and most genius commercials from this years biggest American Football game of the year (we can't say the real name!) and turning them into actually useful marketing takeaways you can apply to your campaigns, content, and brand strategy this week. You’ll hear what worked, what didn’t, and the patterns behind both from hook speed and brand clarity to why “vibes” and celebrity cameos don’t automatically equal a great concept.
All the ads I mention are linked below so you can watch along:
[Pepsi]
[Lays]
[Dunkin]
[Pringles]
[Xfinity]
[Ramp]
[Poppi]
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