Will Ferrell Super Bowl Ad

A Puppet's Ramblings - from Chip Martin, Mannequin American Marketer

Will Ferrell Super Bowl Ad

Old Milwaukee rolled out a new TV commercial starring comedian Will Ferrell during the Super Bowl. You probably didn't see it though, as it only ran in one place-the country's second-smallest TV market, North Platte, Neb.

According to BusinessWeek, despite its tiny TV audience, the Old Milwaukee ad managed to outperform some of the nationally broadcast Super Bowl commercials in an increasingly important metric of Super Bowl advertising bragging rights: chatter on social-media networks.

On Sunday night, a user named Daddymcc uploaded a low-quality copy of the Ferrell commercial onto YouTube, which was subsequently linked to by Old Milwaukee's official Facebook page. At this time, the video has been viewed 564,154 times. Nicely done.

It Sucks to be Short

Ovaltine has come out with a new series of print ads which point out that it "Sucks to be Short."  The idea is that Ovaltine will help youngsters to grow. The ad above is my favorite of the bunch.

A 30 Second Time Waster

This is an old trick, but it's still fun. Stare at the colored dots on this girl's nose (picture below) for 30 seconds, then quickly look at a white wall or ceiling (or anything pure white) and start blinking rapidly. Congratulations, you just processed a negative with your brain!