Why this year’s Super Bowl ads might hit different
Make Me Smart
Marketplace
4.6 • 5.5K Ratings
🗓️ 4 February 2022
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Summary
With the big game just around the corner, the broadcast world’s attention turns to the commercials. Advertisers are looking for a return to the upbeat tone of years past. We’ll guess about the efforts to stand out from the pack that we might expect during this year’s gridiron epic. Plus, we hollow out our shells while discussing the White House’s handling of the media and hard data on the national debt. We’ll end the show with two Make Me Smiles — one from Down Under, and one that’s out of this world.
Here’s everything we talked about on the show today:
- Felicia Sonmez’s tweet thread on recent events in Syria
- “Raw data: Interest on the national debt” from Jabberwocking
- “NBCUniversal Sells Out Super Bowl Ad Inventory, Hitting Record $7M For Some Spots” from Deadline
- “Advertisers want to make Super Bowl commercials fun again this year” from Fortune
- “Fortune Favours the Brave” | Crypto.com from Youtube
- NASA says International Space Station will crash into Pacific Ocean once retired in 2030 from USA Today
- “Covid: New Zealand unveils phased border reopening plan” from BBC News
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