The Super Bowl has always been known to spawn some of the world's best commercials. Last year over 163 million people watched the Super Bowl, and this year it is sure to be even more with several different ways to watch it online. What we do know is that many people who watch events such as these are not the geekiest of people, but now as technology becomes more and more ubiquitous tech companies are happy to spend $3.5 million or more to promote a new gadget. Here are three of the Super Bowl's tech ads.Best Buy
Phone Innovators
The commercial takes the viewer on a trip through recent time showing many of the innovations that have brought mobile phones to where they are today, featuring multiple important people including the creators of Square mobile payments, Instagram, and Words with Friends - as well as the maker of the first camera phone and the person who sent the first text message. Best Buy tells us how they allow customers to choose from all of the major carriers and phones, and that they give "unbiased advice".
Samsung
Thing Called Love
Samsung once again is poking fun at extreme Apple fans who are waiting in line for the newest device supposedly even during the Super Bowl ("the game"), now to promote their new, extremely large phone - the Galaxy Note. The ad features the song "I Believe in a Thing Called Love" by The Darkness and ends with only one of the Apple fans left by the door. The people in the ad seem to be impressed by the phone's stylus, something that is far from the truth in real life.
Go Daddy
Body Paint
You could've guessed it. GoDaddy once again uses sex appeal, in this ad to promote their selling of .co domains [highly inferior to .net domains in this writer's opinion ;) ]. The real advertisement is painted on the body of a model, and in the extended version of the ad on the Go Daddy website shows that they are offering .co as well as .com doamins on sale for $9.99/year.
Go Daddy, also showed a second ad, that and more can be found in this playlist of all of this year's Super Bowl commercials. Many of the non-tech once are funnier- of course, so I know I'll still be watching them. It is at this time that I would like to promote my preferred domain registrar - Netfirms - where you can use the promo code "PROMO495' to get a .com, .net, or .org domain for only $4.95, just in case you don't want to support Go Daddy, and want a better price.
