Super Bowl LIV – The Most Significant Commercials

February 3, 2020

2020 marks the fourth anniversary of my Super Bowl commercial recap blog post here at Rampant Discourse. With four years down, we’ve rotated around through all of the hosting channels, NBC, ABC and for both 2020 and 2017, FOX. Having run this blog for a number of years now, I’ve gotten familiar with the trends. Every year has its own trends, but the generic trends of Super Bowl ads on…

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The Most Significant 2018 Super Bowl Ads

February 9, 2018

Last year I took some time to review the advertisements in the Super Bowl.  We saw that after a particularly divisive election many of the advertisements took on a particularly political tone.  Would the same happen this year in the wake of #metoo?  Or would advertisers tone down the social commentary and aim more for brand building and light humor?  Weirdly enough I mentioned 2004’s “wardrobe malfunction” in my introduction…

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