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Top 5 Superbowl Ads for 2009 (Personal Picks)

It’s that time of the year again – Superbowl 43 has decided its winner and people are voting on their favorite (or least favorite) Superbowl commercials. While I thought that most of them were unappealing or just outright stupid, there were a handful that turned out to be pretty enetertaining.

With that I give you my personal top 5 picks.

Bravo TV Sucks!

If you are looking to watch a good movie on commercial-driven television, avoid Bravo unless you want to see just about equal time of commercials as you are viewing the movie itself. Watching a recent airing of the 1995 film “Heat” starring Robert DeNiro and Al Pachino, I literally watched 6 minutes of film compared to 5 minutes of commercials. Add to my negative experience the fact the majority of commercials were for their own shows and were shown over and over and over again.

C’Mon Netflix – Increase Your Inventory Already!

I am a long time Netflix subscriber and consider myself to be a brand evangelist (just see the post prior to this one). However I am having an increasingly difficult time convincing my wife to keep our Netflix account open as opposed to switching to RedBox. She argues that RedBox is much more conveinent and [...]