What Was That Super Bowl Ad Even Selling?
In a star-studded series of ad breaks, celebrities overpowered some of the brands they were supposed to be promoting.
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Celebrities were all over last night’s Super Bowl ads. Did the stars overpower the brands they were supposed to be selling?
First, here are three new stories from The Atlantic:
Promoting the Promoters
Many of last night’s Super Bowl ad breaks seemed to double as promotions for celebrities. An ad that focused on how Christopher Walken talks was immediately followed by an ad about how Arnold Schwarzenegger talks, but the products being hawked (in Walken’s case,
