No Monkeys, No Dogs, and Nobody Gets Hit in the Crotch : My Top Five Super Bowl Commercials : 2011

While the buzz the Super Bowl ads create is on a slightly bigger budget than my clients can typically reach (a cool $3 million for 30 seconds), I've assembled my top five commercials from last night's big game. What can I say?  I'm an advertising freak, a MadMen diehard, a marketing consultant, and with the Patriots not playing (still not sure what happened there), I certainly wasn't interested in the game. 

My top 5 are here with embedded links for easy viewing.  What are your top 5?  I'm keen to know!  Many people thought the commercials were lackluster overall, but there were definitely a few gold nuggets in there.  Check 'em out:  http://thecampbellscoop.blogspot.com/2011/02/super-bowl-ads-in-revi...

The big winner last night has to be Volkswagen.  Not only did it score a solid third on USAToday's AdMeter, but it was the first SB ad I saw leaked on the Facebook, which tells you it was going viral even before it aired... a great sign. 

And after it aired during the game, the twitterverse went wild with positive remarks. 

And it scored very well with the experts. 

And it was blissfully free of monkeys, dogs, and nobody got hit the crotch.  Refreshing, isn't it?  ;-)