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Anheuser-Busch's Super Bowl Lineup Led by Stella Artois

Anheuser-Busch's Super Bowl Lineup Led by Stella Artois

CHICAGO (AdAge.com) -- Anheuser-Busch's Super Bowl advertising lineup will have a slimmer, more international feel this year. For the first time, A-B will plug an import in the big game -- premium Belgian brew Stella Artois. And instead of running nine ads over the course of five minutes, as it did last year, A-B will air five ads over three-and-a-half minutes.

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Best Buy to Make First Super Bowl Appearance

Best Buy to Make First Super Bowl Appearance

NEW YORK (AdAge.com) -- Best Buy is making its first-ever appearance in the Super Bowl, to tout news it says will "revolutionize" retailing.

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BMW to Make Super Bowl Comeback After 10 Years

BMW to Make Super Bowl Comeback After 10 Years

NEW YORK (AdAge.com) -- BMW North America is returning to the Super Bowl after a 10-year hiatus, as the car maker enters one of the busiest periods of launches in its history.

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Why the 2011 'Social' Super Bowl Will Break Digital Records

Why the 2011 'Social' Super Bowl Will Break Digital Records

The future of marketing is a unified team effort in which three variables -- paid, earned and owned media -- sync, synergize and socialize. Listening is mission-critical and the ad copy from the get-go has to be engagement-worthy. So what does this have to do with the 2011 Super Bowl?

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Super Bowl Blackout Left CBS, Advertisers In the Dark

Super Bowl Blackout Left CBS, Advertisers In the Dark

As a blackout delayed Super Bowl XLVII for more than 30 interminable minutes, CBS was left without a road map. Here's the play-by-play of how it handled it.

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That's a Lotta Wings

That's a Lotta Wings

We'll eat 1.23 billion chicken wings this weekend, the National Chicken Council says. And that's actually down 1% from last year.

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Creativity Chat: Tom Kuntz, Director of VW's 'Get Happy' Super Bowl Ad

Creativity Chat: Tom Kuntz, Director of VW's 'Get Happy' Super Bowl Ad

There's a certain art to casting and directing an ad in which a white guy from Minnesota breaks out into Jamaican patois in the office.

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Amid Sunday's Chips and Beer, What a Marketer Could Learn

Amid Sunday's Chips and Beer, What a Marketer Could Learn

Many marketers make the mistake of assuming that potential customers want to be different or be the best, when they really just want to fit in

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How to Sound Even Smarter About the Super Bowl

How to Sound Even Smarter About the Super Bowl

Heed our wisdom and you will feel the game the way Ray Lewis feels the National Anthem.

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As a 'Jamerican,' I Commend Volkswagen's CMO for Pushing Forward

As a 'Jamerican,' I Commend Volkswagen's CMO for Pushing Forward

Carol Watson finds the spot funny, and thinks Tim Mahoney did his homework before releasing the ad.

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See the Spot: Budweiser's Clydesdales Return to Center Stage in Super Bowl

See the Spot: Budweiser's Clydesdales Return to Center Stage in Super Bowl

Super Bowl favorites return to starring role in sentimental spot.

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Animal Planet and IntoNow Give 'Puppy Bowl' the Second-Screen Treatment

Animal Planet and IntoNow Give 'Puppy Bowl' the Second-Screen Treatment

Geico, separately, has bought naming rights to the "stadium."

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For CBS in Particular, Super Bowl is About More Than Just Football

For CBS in Particular, Super Bowl is About More Than Just Football

Every network uses the Super Bowl to promote other shows and corporate siblings, but CBS may have extra incentive.

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Social Networks Aim to Land More Super Bowl Ad Dollars

Now that they've become an established part of the Super Bowl marketing playbook, social networks are looking to command more of fans' attention and maybe even a bigger share of TV ad dollars.

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Kraft Foods' Mio Gets Super Bowl Slot

Kraft Foods' Mio Gets Super Bowl Slot

Kraft Foods Group is putting Mio in the Super Bowl, Ad Age has learned. The company will debut a 30-second ad for the beverage brand in the game's third quarter.

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Unilever Returns to Super Bowl With Commercial to Sharpen Axe Products

Unilever Returns to Super Bowl With Commercial to Sharpen Axe Products

The consumer-products giant has been in the big game before but, perhaps surprisingly, Axe has not.

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Mercedes' Super Bowl Arsenal: New Car, Name on the Stadium and Kate Upton

Mercedes' Super Bowl Arsenal: New Car, Name on the Stadium and Kate Upton

"This is not just any Super Bowl," said Steve Cannon, president-CEO of Mercedes-Benz USA.

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Bridgestone Surrenders Super Bowl Halftime Show

Bridgestone Surrenders Super Bowl Halftime Show

While the company will still be known as the "Official Tire of the National Football League," it is shifting its focus from the halftime show it's sponsored since 2008.

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CBS Says 2013 Super Bowl is More Than 50% Sold

CBS Says 2013 Super Bowl is More Than 50% Sold

The sales effort does not seem to have been hurt by a recent and surprising disclosure by General Motors that it would not advertise in the 2013 event.

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Days After Quitting Facebook Ads, GM Swears Off the Super Bowl

Days After Quitting Facebook Ads, GM Swears Off the Super Bowl

Is General Motors making a point or acting under new pressures?

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