Watch O.C.’s Super Bowl 2010 TV commercials
February 7th, 2010, 10:12 am · 4 Comments · posted by Tamara Chuang, a.k.a. The Gadgetress
It’s a big year for Orange County’s tech-minded companies. Three are involved in Super Bowl ads, airing today. We got them ahead of time and have set them up to be available once they appear on TV. Until then, you’ll just see some blank spots below and will need to satisfy yourself with the extra filler.
| Vizio, HDTV company in Irvine | ||||
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| Vizio signed Beyonce in January to replace San Diego Charger LaDainian Tomlinson as its go-to celebrity. But she’s not just a pretty face. The company has hinted that her fashion expertise may mold its new line of TV accessories targeting women. This is Vizio’s second Super Bowl commercial. It’s expected to air during the fourth quarter. UPDATE: Chocolate Rain, Numa Numa Internet celebs was a nice touch (not to mention the Twitter bird and other Internet icons). Not sure if most people got this commercial though. |
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| More: ► Beyoncé, Batman, the 2010 Super Bowl and Vizio ► Vizio hires Beyoncé as new spokesperson |
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| Boost Mobile, prepaid wireless firm based in Irvine | ||||
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| After a smashing great year, Boost Mobile decided it was time to spread the word about how right it is to go with prepaid phone service. The company, which helped parent company Sprint gain customers last year, hired members of the 1985 Chicago Bears team, possibly best known for doing the ‘Super Bowl Shuffle.’ In this commercial, Boost continues its campaign of pointing out things that are soooo wrong. | ||||
| More: ►Boost’s $2.5 million bet: Super Bowl ad to parody 1985’s ‘Shuffle’ | ||||
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| Agency 3.0, Newport Beach ad agency for San Diego’s Flo TV | ||||
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| The guy who created Boost Mobile is back with an ad firm called Agency 3.0. Peter Adderton says Boost was a success because he had created a brand — something he hopes to do for San Diego’s Flo TV. The mobile TV service hired Adderton’s agency for three commercials. Above is the commercial featuring Black Eyed Peas’ will.i.am remixing The Who’s “My Generation.” After the devastating Haiti earthquake, all agreed to remix the commercial into a Haiti relief effort. The 3-minute remix will available for sale with all proceeds going to Haiti. Read the story: “O.C. Agency’s Super Bowl ad mixes The Who, hip hop and Haiti.”Below are two more Flo TV commercials created by Adderton’s agency. They feature CBS sportscasters Jim Nantz and James Brown: | ||||
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Also, check out our story about how San Clemente resident Matt Gahan won a national contest to make a Super Bowl ad for CareerBuilder.com.
Watch all of the Super Bowl 2010 commercials at Hulu.com. Also, rate the ads over at USA Today HERE.
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Only entertaining commercial was the Doritos commercial with the shock bark dog collar. All the others were pretty well what we see day in and day out. The Snicker’s one with Betty White was good and I always like the Budweiser horse one’s.
Kind of disappointed. Used to be we’d laugh so hard at commercial time during the Super Bowl. Not this year for sure. Other than the 3 I mentioned i’m at a loss as to what exactly was advertised.
Definitely not memorable. At least it was a good game.
I laughed out loud at the Bud Lite “Lost” take-off. That was well done and the best in my book. The “Green Police” by Audi was also very funny. The Google “Paris Love” ad did a fantastic job of showing exactly how the product works.
The bark collar and Betty White ads were lame. As were so many others. But I’m not surprised they were so well liked by others after the Pepsi “boy sucked into the bottle” ad was such a “smash” some years back. Stupid, utterly stupid.
I actually thought the Doritos dog collar one was one of the lamest, along with the talking kid for Etrade. Those are just getting old. There may not have been a lot of good and funny ads but besides the Snicker’s one (which I thought was the best) there was Hundai’s Favre accepting the MVP in 2010 and vacillating about retiring, TruTV had Punxatawney Polamalu declaring six more weeks of football, Dave, Oprah and Jay, the CocaCola Simpsons, and Bud Light stranded on an island were all good.