Ranking The Best And Worst Ads from the Big Game in 2026

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Transcript

Super Bowl Ads Set The Stage

Rich 0:00

All right, Zach. The question on everybody's mind: what were the best ads from the big game in 2026? We'll get into it. All right, Zach. We had to say the big game in our promos because you were not allowed to say Super Bowl in advertising to make it sound like they are associated with your brand. Not that I think it would matter for us, not really our audience necessarily. But uh, since the podcast is technically editorial and blog posts are editorial, you can say the words Super Bowl. So now uh we're off the hook and we can uh we can jump in there. So, so Super Bowl, Super Bowl, Super Bowl. Um the game had some pretty decent hits, I think. Not a lot, uh some misses, um, and a few that were just like, what the hell was that?

Zac 0:51

Like I think honestly, it was a lot more toned down than previous years, too. Like it all seemed like it blended together. I don't know if that was because the game was just boring to me, but the game was terrible.

Pineapple Martini Backstory

Rich 1:04

Like um, I did watch the first half, I did not watch the second half, I watched the halftime show and then was like, yeah, I just don't really care. Um, and it was so slow. My goodness. But um, yeah, the ads were partly the highlight. Um we we are gonna have to talk about all the poop and pee ads because there was just a lot of that. We had that, we had uh manscaping was in there. Like honestly, that was one of the better ones. So we'll get into all that uh in a little bit, but first we've got to talk about this cocktail, Zach. So talk about the pineapple martini.

Zac 1:40

So the pineapple martini was created in 1997 at London's Met Bar at the Metropolitan Hotel. Uh Ben Reid was the person that actually created it, and it was and um one of the things that I read about it is that it was like this new thing where they added freshly squeezed juice inside of martinis instead of like the more toned down, you know, like dirty martinis and stuff like that. Also, they added lime juice to boost the acidity, and so it was pretty famous back in the 90s. Would you say it was famous back in the 90s?

How To Make A Pineapple Martini

Rich 2:12

Because I've never heard of it before this, but I mean I would have been 26 in 1997. Um I know in the early 2000s, pineapple-infused vodka at bars, like fruit-infused vodkas and gins at bars became a thing where they'd have like, you know, like the spa has the water one, they would just have a big vat of vodka with fresh pineapple like in it. And that stuff was good and dangerous. Um, because especially the pineapple ones, because pineapple can be so sweet, and as it like ferments, sitting in the vodka, you get this really sweet fruit. I mean, honestly, if I worked at a bar that had that, I would just take the fruit palm at the end of the night and just get wasted. Um, yeah, I don't know. I mean, I know that there were like the lemon drop has been around a while. Yeah. Um, but the the whole idea of using fresh juice in martinis, because there's the martini culture is can be really like crazy. And a lot of people are like, it must be gin, there must be vermouth, you need olives, like that's it. You can't do anything else with it. Um but it loosened up, and it might have just been that in the 90s is when things started loosening up. But now I want to go look and see like when did the lychee martini like come about? Because I love that one. That's my favorite of all time.

Zac 3:24

I had a really good espresso martini over the weekend. It was Vietnamese coffee, condensed milk, uh vodka, and then it had red miso in it. So it's a little umami going on in there. Yeah, and it really paired really nicely, but all right. That was cool.

Rich 3:41

Well, let's talk about how to make a pineapple martini. Um, you're gonna want one and a quarter ounces of vodka, um, one ounce of pineapple juice. If you get a pineapple and cut it, you're going to have juice. Just basically have it in a bowl while you cut it. You can also put pineapple in a juicer, but for just an ounce of juice, honestly, it's super easy. You'll get that and then some um just cutting the pineapple normally. They're so juicy when they're ripe. Uh, a quarter ounce of lime juice, uh, just get that the normal way. And then an eighth of an ounce of rich simple syrup, which is a two to one sugar to hot water mix. Um, and then you can garnish this with a pineapple wedge, um, which can be really fun. And maybe a little umbrella if you want to. So all the ingredients just go in a cocktail shaker with ice. You shake it until it's chilled. Um, strain it into a chilled coop or cocktail glass. You will get pulp with that pineapple juice and things in there. So the straining, you can double strain it if you want to. Um, I usually use more of a strainer for fruit martinis than like a finer strainer than just the cocktail shaker top that doesn't really strain necessarily. Um garnish it with a pineapple wedge and enjoy it. This one's from punchdrink.com.

Zac 4:48

Um it falls under one of their easy shake recipes, shaking recipes.

First Impressions: Mid And Muddled

The AI Ad Wars Arrive

Rich 4:53

So yeah, the hardest part of this is gonna be getting a pineapple, cutting it, and juicing it. Like that's the most difficult piece of all of this. And honestly, it's not that difficult. And then you've got pineapple, make an upside-down cake or something. Yeah. All right. So uh should we talk about the uh the I don't know what to say. Just the the the I don't know. I just like I feel like it wasn't like a spectacular ads. I don't feel like it was that great. They're kind of mid, like very middle of the road. Like, yeah, I think one of the ads was just focused on meh, right? Like was an ad that was like I think that's kind of how I feel about all of them. So we'll do that when we get back after a little break. All right, we are back. Um so Zach, you have a pretty hot takeaway from the whole show. So lay it on us.

Zac 5:54

So the AI ad wars are officially here. There's a lot of big AI companies spending a lot of money to get their name out there. Um brands are experimenting with AI too to very mixed results.

Goodwill Dunkin And De-Aging Debate

Rich 6:08

Very mixed. It's very hit and miss. Um it just is really, really wild. Um yeah, and I think that we're also back, and I was surprised. I figured with like as tough as the economies be and all the divisive politics and stuff, we'd have a lot more humor, like big humor. Um, a lot of brands didn't go that direction at all. The ones that did sort of made it kind of like they just weren't, there was nothing that made me like want to spit out my drink. Like that where you just can't control your laughter, which there has been in past Super Bowls. There have been some great things. Um, so I'm gonna go back to your AI piece and I want to start with. I know you've got one um that's horrible that was AI. Goodwill Duncan. I've got to talk about Goodwill Duncan. So um I saw the teaser this morning, which I hadn't seen in the show. I don't know when it ran, and I loved that. So it was actually Ben Affleck pitching it to Jennifer Aniston and uh Matt LeBlanc and um Jason Alexander. Like, so he had this old like vi VHS tape, and he was like, he popped it in, and then they cut away to their reactions, and it's like Jennifer Aniston's like, no one can ever see that, like ever. And he's like, he's like, Oh, it's it's okay, it's okay, it's just gonna air once. Um so that was funny. The ad itself, I like the idea. I like the idea of like this the rivalry between Ben Affleck and Matt Damon, who are you know good friends and all of that, and the idea that they could have cast it differently. And and he's always been good with Duncan, right? Like they're Boston people, so Duncan makes sense for them to like rep the brand. Um and I liked the cameos and things. The quote that I got from uh a review is um the debate is was this AI slop or a CGI nightmare?

Zac 8:08

That's I was wondering, honestly.

Rich 8:10

Yeah, so they did, I was too. And so if you did um, if you if you Google was the goodwill Duncan, it'll fill in commercial AI. Like people are asking you if it was AI or not. And I think that it was it was live actors, they shot them and all of that, but the AI they used to de-age them was a little bit weird and I think unnecessary.

Zac 8:34

It was a little uncanny, yeah. Because you can tell, like obviously a lot of those people aren't that same age, and it's just like when I was watching it, I was like, I think I was like enjoying it, and then I was looking at it closely, and I was like, oh, okay, like is this AI? Like I genuinely can't tell because it got in the way. It got in the way. It was like a lot I think that's a what a lot of the happened what happened with a lot of the ads and why it was so mixed is there's good concepts, but then when you throw AI into it and like the visuals of it, like things can get a little cloudy, right?

Rich 9:06

Yeah, and so that's where like they shot a real commercial and then used AI for the D-aging, um, which you know D-aging has been used like they used it on Harrison Ford in you know recent movies and things. Um, it's been used before, um, but the process has been different. It just it felt sloppy to me. Yeah. Um so yeah. So what about you? Like with um I know you've got another AI that you hated.

Svedka’s Uncanny Robot Misfire

Zac 9:33

Yeah. I mean, we can get right into the actual like things if you want.

Rich 9:38

Yeah, let's jump into the the AI one and then we'll come back to like your least favorite, my least favorite, your favorite, my favorite, all those.

Zac 9:44

Yeah. So honestly, like the biggest like AI, like the worst AI ad that I saw was this FedCa ad. That was basically just nightmare fuel. I don't know what they were going for with the messaging because having it be like those androids just made it even more uncanny and scary. And it was just janky. Like when you watch it, like the movements weren't natural. And I mean, maybe they tried to hide that with the robots because like I don't know. I I feel like they spent all the money on the ad spot and like basically nothing on the actual ad itself.

Rich 10:17

Yeah, it's um it reminded me of watching the um the Tesla robots or androids or what I guess the robots that were supposed to be like operating on like self-operating, serving drinks at that party when that thing came out like a few years ago, and then we found out that it was actually people behind the scenes like manipulating the robots, like running them. And then somebody also did one where they had like um an autonomous, you know, AI robot, but it was a person in a suit. Like they just weren't the technology wasn't there. And I just, yeah, I feel like Svedka just really missed it here. It did not make me want to get a martini or drink Svedka vodka at all. No, there were parts of it that were just gross. Like, you know, they're drinking and it's just coming out their throat. Like it's like, whoa.

Coinbase Karaoke Confusion

Zac 11:05

Like the sm the smile was really uncanny with like the lipstick on the robot. And then like it's almost like they tried to make it look they tried to make it work instead of making a good ad. Like they were like, okay, like this is what this this is kind of good. I don't know, like it literally didn't make any sense to me because like it wasn't like fun to watch, like it was very obviously AI. Uh, it didn't do anything extra with the AI, like it didn't push any boundaries, like trying to do something experimental. It kind of just seemed like, okay, we spent all of our money on the uh actual like ad spot. Let's just like throw AI at the creative and see what happens.

Rich 11:43

Yep, 100%. So there was one that wasn't AI, and I think it was your least favorite and my least favorite too. Because it made no sense. So we're talking about the Coinbase karaoke. Yep. Yeah, so for me, the song made no sense for Coinbase at all. No, like it just did not fit. Like, um there are songs about money, there's songs about current, like that would have made more sense to me, but it just wasn't something where like I wanted to sing along. Like nobody who I was with, they were all just kind of like staring at the screen doing karaoke, and then we were trying to guess who it was for, and like Coinbase was not even on our radar.

Zac 12:30

No, I knew it was some I really missed the mark too because it's like one, like maybe if you're at a bar, like maybe some people sung along, I could see that being a thing. And I really think they were just going all in on like that nostalgia hit where it's like, oh, this is a song that like a lot of people like, like, I'm sure somebody will sing along, and then we can get them to say our name, or like at the end of it. It was kind of cringy and like uncomfortable. And and I did not like it.

Rich 12:58

And the graphics were straight out of like 1986. Like it was just oh, like for that and for how long it was, I was like, oh my god, you're killing me.

Poop Humor Overload And Cameos

Zac 13:08

And it didn't make me want to like look up what Coinbase was. Like, I already knew that Coinbase had something to do with like cryptocurrency, but it didn't like intrigue me to the point where I was like, oh, that was an interesting ad. I want to go like actually see how Coinbase is. It was like, oh, that was really uncomfortable. Like, I want to know who did this, so that I can't I don't support them.

Rich 13:28

But yeah, it's um yeah, it just it really missed like crazy. So another one that I think I think it falls, it's better than I think the Coinbase ad and this Vedka ad, but not a great ad, but was entertaining a bit was God help me, the William Shatner one where he was just William Shat. I mean, so they had a gimmick, right? And the gimmick was let's shove as many poop jokes into an ad as we possibly can.

Zac 13:58

Yeah.

Rich 13:59

Um and so it it just kept going. And I think that it almost it almost hit the point where it went so far over the top with the poop jokes that it got funny, but it just got to the just didn't get over the hill for me. Like, you know, when they got to the shihtzu, like I'm like, okay, like that's a clever way to fit that in there and get it past the censors, boys. But it was just such a I don't know, it was just such a weird concept. And the fact that Shatner did it blew my mind.

Zac 14:32

Yeah. It was a weird one. There's a lot of weird ads that I just didn't really like, I don't know, they kind of just missed the mark. Another one that I just remembered was the AI.com one, whereas like ai.com slash elon, ai.com slash this. Like, I don't know what ai.com is, but it was really forgettable. And uh if you put Elon in there, I'm not gonna want to actually search it.

Budweiser Nostalgia Done Right

Rich 14:56

I know, it's like uh yeah. There was another one, I think it was for open AI and one of their new products. And it had it it was trying to be an Apple ad, like it had Einstein and like I think Elon was in there and others, and it was just like, well. All right, well, that's uh those are some of the least favorites.

Zac 15:13

I think there are more that I hated.

Rich 15:17

Um, but those were the ones that really stuck out. I do have what may be a controversial favorite ad when we get there, but um but yeah, let's let's let's jump into the good stuff. All right, I can definitely start.

Zac 15:29

Um so the first ad that I I kind of like actually felt like, okay, that was pretty good was the Budweiser ad. And I grew up like seeing those Budweiser ads and always liking like the giant horses. So like when I saw the horses, the like the Clydesdales, yeah. I remember like I don't know, I just have a lot of good memories like watching the Super Bowl with my family and those ads coming up, and usually they're pretty funny or they like hit on like some good storytelling notes. And for me, um, as soon as I saw like the Clydesdale, like pony or like Colt, I was like, okay, that's pretty cool. Like I know this is gonna be a Budweiser ad. Yep. And then the Eagle, like the baby eagle, it raising the baby eagle, it just hit on a lot of nostalgia for me. And I like the storytelling with minimal dialogue. I didn't have to like there wasn't like a lot of like things being thrown at me. It was a simple story, and I think it did a good job of like really like putting their brand out there because I instantly knew the Clydesdale hoist. You always can expect a Clydesdale Hoist commercial at the Super Bowl. And I really like how there was maybe one line of dialogue there, but they still got their point across and really put their brand out there.

Pepsi Polar Bear Twist

Rich 16:40

And I think Bud is one that always tries to go for that emotion and that heart with something. And this one was pretty good. Like it's not the top, probably top five most emotional Budweiser ads, because they've had some really strong ones in the past. Uh, but they also always have something in there that's funny with like the keg rolling down the hill and like all that stuff. That was, you know, it was really cute too. Um, what's really funny is um Leonard Skinner tweeted about it, and they said we can't think of a better way to celebrate our legendary song than to be honored in Buds Budweiser USA's beautiful commercial. Like which is a really nice sentiment. Like um, it's really good. And and I think that's where when you've you find a brand and a theme that goes together, and then you can weave a story into it, you don't have to try too hard. You know, you can get a really good ad um out of that.

Zac 17:30

Another one. Oh, I was just thinking of this. Sorry. Another one that I thought was a good honorable mention that I almost put on this list was the Pepsi commercial with the polar bears. A lot of people didn't get it. I thought it was really funny, especially the Coldplay concert part. And then like, I don't know, like taking that iconic of like a mascot from Coca-Cola. I don't know. I thought it was like I thought it was like very close to being good because like I saw like a lot of the references and I thought it was kind of funny, but I didn't put it in my top two.

Rich 18:03

I think if people missed the opening, because the opening of that is obviously he's doing a blind the polar bear is doing a blind taste test and chooses Pepsi over Coke. If you miss that, you're lost the entire ad. It's a polar bear getting therapy, and then he's seeing Pepsi everywhere and getting handed a Pepsi and drinking Pepsi, um, and then the Coldplay concert moment.

Zac 18:23

He gets caught with Pepsi at the wrong concert.

Manscaped’s Hairy Ballad

Rich 18:27

Yeah, and I saw that like um I saw people posting about it on social. They were like, I thought the polar bears were Coke's thing. Why is Pepsi using them? And it's like you missed the first like four seconds of that commercial, clearly. Um, and that I think is is a problem with storytelling, right? Because we're all like, you know, we're on screens and doing this while we're you look down for a second and you miss it. And if you look away, you miss it. Um that's what I love. I just I just watched uh just finished watching a Japanese reality series. Um it's called The Boyfriend. It's a bunch of guys, a bunch of gay guys work a coffee truck and try to match. And it's so Japanese culture because it's very not hookup culture at all. It's very get to know you and don't they don't want to express their feelings, but I watch it. Yeah, they're so respectful. And I um I always watch it with subtitles, and I because I want to hear their real voices for one, but watching with subtitles, you cannot be dual screening it. You will miss so much because you've got to focus and read that uh that TV screen. Okay, so my favorite ad might be controversial, but it made me laugh. And the longer it went, the funnier I thought it got, and I thought it ended well, but it was the Manscaped ad. Oh yeah. All of the body hair, like um the ballad. Yeah, the ballad, like original song, which is really great. You've got um all these different characters that they've created about different types of hair and things. Um it just it and it really tied to the product, right? Like that one was the product, like how you use it. And I just thought it was funny. And then the the end line after he like scoops up one of the characters and flushes it is um, you won't miss your hair, but your hair might miss you. Uh just like I was like, okay, that one made me laugh more than almost anything. It was good. Yeah, that was a really good one. I did like the the Bud ad as well. I I love a good Budweiser ad.

Zac 20:27

Um It was kind of just like feel good, like it really like hit on the point. It was a really nice song choice with the eagle flying above the Clydesdale. Yep.

Pokemon’s Star-Studded Favorite Picks

Rich 20:37

Yeah, when I was a kid, um I would sing beer jingles, like because you saw them on TV all the time, and they were really good original songs, you know, like Head for the Mountains of Bush Beer. But um uh I'm not gonna sing anymore. But so my my parents wanted me to start singing like um soda pop commercials, like so. They got me like I'd like to teach the world to sing Coke like uh 45. So we had that on 45 because I'm that old. Um, I still have it here too. Um, the same one. So just trying to get into that and get me away from beer as like a six-year-old and get me into like maybe sing something more age appropriate for you. So all right, so you have another favorite.

Zac 21:24

I do. I picked two. I almost picked three, like I said, with the polar bears, but it the polar bear wasn't perfect, the polar bear ad. I thought I I thought it was clever, but it didn't like hit all the notes. With this one, I was kind of surprised to see this kind of an ad at the Super Bowl. Uh so Pokemon did their own ad, which what's your favorite Pokemon? And it starts with a lot of the celebrities. They had Lady Gaga, Trevor Noah, Charles LeCourc, who's like a Formula One racer. Uh, they had a Korean like K pop oh no, isn't yeah, Korean singer J Su. And they had like an actor and a Spanish. Football player, and what I really liked was that I didn't know what the ad was about, and I was kind of confused at first, but because they were just describing like a specific uh Pokemon, which it ended up being, and then as they started describing it, it started showing up behind them. And uh Pokemon, like when that was popular, it was right around the age that I was like growing up and it was booming. And so I don't know, I thought it was really cool. Like, I think it was a really cool way to kind of describe how many different kinds of Pokemon there are in the game, and they have their own personalities, and like it's a little intriguing too. And it's Pokemon's, I think, 30th anniversary or getting close to their 30th anniversary.

Rich 22:37

So 30th, yep, you're correct.

Zac 22:39

Yeah, so that was kind of a part of that. This ad was. And I I don't know, I thought it was really cool that like it's showing like, oh, all my favorite celebrities have their own favorite Pokemon. Like, I don't know, it's just really cool. And I'm sure like a lot of people my age and like kids loved it.

Movie Trailers And Real Winners

Rich 22:54

So well, and I think that's where like even Coke comes in with like that when you tap into nostalgia in some way, and it's wild that Pokemon is old enough to like start tapping into nostalgia, but it was a big part for kids growing up, um, you know, 25-30 years ago, and it still has had some staying power as they've moved into games from cards, and the cards are still a huge deal too. Um the cards are really. So I think that that like Pokemon Go did a lot for that too. Yeah, like that was really great. Yeah, I just had to look that one up because I don't remember seeing that one. And again, I took like I told you, I didn't watch the second half. Um, but it's really interesting. So that how much do you think that cost them to produce?

Zac 23:33

Oh, I have no idea. Like ballpark, was it in the hundreds of millions?

Rich 23:38

No, it wasn't in hundreds of millions. Uh it was 16 to 20 million.

Zac 23:41

Okay. I never know with the Super Bowl because like I feel like it just keeps going up and up.

Rich 23:46

Yeah, I mean, like a Lady Gaga is gonna cost you a lot, a Trevor Noah is gonna cost you a lot, Formula One a little bit less, and as you get into like more foreign celebrities, um they'll be a little bit cheaper. I mean, also the thing that pops in there is if they want to do it, like they really have a genuine love for the brand, some celebrities will like cut their feet on to scale. Like I've seen that happen with brands, um, which is really, really cool. Yeah, I'm trying to think. Um the Mandalorian and Grogu thing was cute. Um, I didn't realize that was a movie coming out. I figured the show would just be coming back, but I guess there's a movie. I didn't realize that either. Um And then there was one for um oh the the movie called Hail Mary coming out.

Zac 24:32

Oh, yeah, that was interesting. Um the person I was next to is like, are they making just like is every celebrity have to go into space now?

Rich 24:40

So I got to I was um Haran Gosling in space. Um you think he sits around and is just like, what haven't I done yet? I haven't gone into space. I've been Ken.

Zac 24:51

I need to go to space next.

Rich 24:53

Yeah, the um I I do like the movie trailers or shortened trailers premiering in the Super Bowl. It's a really good platform for that, I think, as advertising goes. Um I did not like and they all are really short because it's expensive, and then they're like, you know, the full trailer now online. I know where to find those. You can find them on YouTube, you can find them on Apple TV, they got the trailers things. I didn't go look up either one of them because I mean I want to see both of those movies actually. I love a good sci-fi, I love good space, I love Star Wars. Like like I grew up a Star Wars kid, you know, I was born in the early 70s, so I was, you know, eight or nine when that was coming out. Um and so yeah, I want to see him, but it wasn't enough to make me like go do it right away. Um but I still have it. I probably need to do that. Maybe I'll do that tonight. Just look it up and see what it's more about. But I'm trying to think, was there anything else that like came through there? Oh, the real winner of the Super Bowl, the Backstreet Boys.

Zac 25:55

Oh, yeah, 100%.

Halftime Spectacle And Story

Rich 25:56

They made bank being in multiple commercials like throughout there. Like the T-Mobile one was cute, it was fun.

Zac 26:04

Um but yeah, like the Coinbase they they didn't have to do anything, they just had to give their song.

Rich 26:14

Yeah, they just got paid to use their song. So that I thought was fun. And I also thought it was fun. Like some of the Backstreet Boys have aged really well, and some not so well.

Zac 26:23

Yeah, I feel like that's I hear that a lot. It's like some have aged pretty well, and you can like they're still really good looking, and others are like, ooh.

Rich 26:32

Yeah, it's like ooh, you had some rough times in there after you were done singing. Oh, yeah, so uh horrible game. Uh just boring.

Zac 26:43

Mid-ads, but nothing really like stood out like to a crazy like extent.

Rich 26:50

What do the kids say? The ads were really six seven? Is that an appropriate use of that? How were the ads? Six seven. Something like that. Um that was in the teaser for the Ben Affleck Goodwill Duncan thing. Oh, yeah. It talks about like, you know, how you know cringe is in, what is it, six seven? The kids are saying these days. I caught that, yeah. That was funny. Really funny. All right, yeah, it was just interesting. I thought, um, I know we're not here to talk about the halftime show, but I thought it was phenomenal. Like amazing energy. Um I really do like I like Latin music anyway. I think Bad Bunny is fun. Um, what got me is to get all those trees out onto the field. They were all people. I think they were people.

Zac 27:35

I saw that after the show, and I was like, that makes sense. I love it. It makes sense now. Like, I don't know how they got all that stuff out there so fast.

Rich 27:42

Yeah, but I was expecting the trees to like dance or something, you know, like have a left shark moment, but they were just decorative. The other thing that killed me about it is if you were in the lower seats, you couldn't see anything on the field. Like you had to be high up or looking at the monitors because that halftime show was for TV, 100% for TV.

Health Ads: Pee, Poop, Prostate

Zac 28:02

And I really liked the storytelling they had too. It was really cool. And like it was pretty wholesome. Honestly, it's probably the most wholesome, uh, like well-meaning halftime show we've had in a while.

Rich 28:13

Because yeah, I mean, Lady Gaga was fully dressed, Bad Bunny was fully dressed, Pedro Pascal showed up and he was fully dressed.

Zac 28:20

The messaging was really cool. I liked everything.

Rich 28:22

Yeah, I did I did see um an uh a replay of it that had the whole translation. It was a really wonderful, like very poignant song making a statement, but it was definitely a love letter to Puerto Rico, and Puerto Rico's part of America and for the Americas as a whole in our hemisphere, which was really nice. But yeah, all right. Well, that's our take. I know it was some controversial stuff there, but um I think everybody's united on the ads, though. I I've heard the same people hated the AI stuff and loved Budweiser. Um people are a little bit mixed on the uh Manscaped. I think maybe it just kind of grosses people out. Oh, and we didn't even talk about the P ads. Like that there were three ads about pea. Like, and there was also like a Colagaard one or something. There was another poop ad in there too. But like I'm just learning that like apparently Americans are really unhealthy and we're dehydrated and terrible. Like that liquid IV ad was it was kind of gross.

Zac 29:24

That one that one was surprising. I like the tight end ad. I forgot about that one with the prostate awareness. I didn't know what the ad was for, and then as soon as they brought up prostate awareness, I'm like, okay, like message sent, you got me.

Rich 29:36

Yeah, I think it was the prostate cancer awareness. Yeah, it was that's a good one, and that's a big deal. Like prostate cancer is on the rise. So you got it here, folks. Like when you hit a certain age, get that checked. Um and you can do the cola guard, like that's a totally safe way to do that. Yeah. Um also when you hit a certain certain age, you're gonna get a colonoscopy. It's gonna happen.

Final Takeaways And Closing CTA

Zac 29:55

Now that we've covered that one, I think we've covered all of the mainly like decent ads. Um I think so, yeah. And so there was a poop ad that was a good ad. Yeah. There were some that were good, some that were like very middle of the road, and then others, like the AI-generated stuff, like Svetka, very bad.

Rich 30:11

Um I think the colon cancer one, using football players that people know, that's a great way to really play toward that straight male audience. And then being a good thing. We can get them to pay attention. Yeah, and have it be a funny joke, but it's not super offensive and it's not gross. And it, you know, and people remember that. So I think that was a kind of a brilliant move on their part. 100% to bring that in. So yeah, I think that's uh that's a wrap on the superb owl.

Zac 30:41

Yeah, that's an episode. You can find our agency at antideut71.com and all of our socials are there as well. If you have a question you'd like to send our way, it's head to CTApodcast.live to shoot us an email, or even better, leave us a voice message on our hotline at 402-718-9971. Your question will make it into a future episode of the podcast.

Rich 31:01

Yep. And I do want to just call out the DNS for CTA Podcast.live was kind of jacked up until about a month ago, but we did fix it and it actually resolves quickly now. It was just taking forever to actually resolve uh and redirect to the podcast. But I just tested it while you were doing the closing and it works. So we're sorry about that. But if you tried it in the past and couldn't get there, just give it a try again, and we should be good. All right, I will see you next time, Zach. See ya. See you next week.