Fun with numbers: For the first time ever, the Super Bowl was legally streamed online here in the U.S. and, according to NBC, over 2.1 million people fired up their web browsers to watch it. Overall web traffic, however, apparently fell by up to 20% during the game.
Samsung’s Super Bowl commercial had the makings of greatness, but what did the company do with this huge, once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to promote the Galaxy Note smartphone? It advertised a stylus.
Your tweet near the end of Super Bowl XLVI may have very well been lost amid a sea of other tweets, as Twitter has revealed that 12,233 tweets per second churned through its system “at the end of the game” last night.
Haven’t you heard? Nobody just watches TV anymore — you have to be playing with a smartphone or tablet the whole time. So while you’re “watching” the Super Bowl this year, here’s a list of apps you can use.
Every season, 32 teams hope to make it to the Super Bowl. In that spirit, here are 32 tech companies from Super Bowl ads over the years. Just like NFL teams, some of these companies have flourished; others haven’t fared nearly as well.
It’s that time of year again. EA Sports has cranked its annual Super Bowl simulation through the latest installment of the Madden NFL franchise to predict the winner of this Sunday’s big game. And the winner is…
The big game’s right around the corner, and whether you’re making the trek to Indianapolis to catch the action in person, fighting for a good spot on the couch in someone’s tiny apartment who has no business inviting 50 people to a Super Bowl party or having people over yourself, here’s a list of must-have gadgets and gizmos for everyone’s favorite Sunday of the year.
Going to be away from home on Super Bowl Sunday this year? No need to miss the game. According to the Associated Press, for the very first time, the NFL is going to be streaming NBC’s broadcast of the Super Bowl on the network’s website as well as on NFL.com, plus it will be available on your smartphone via Verizon’s NFL Mobile app.
Chances are, you saw Volkswagen’s Darth Vader Superbowl ad before its official debut; the spot, directed by Lance Acord, was released online days ahead of the Superbowl, and had racked up more than 10 million views on YouTube by the time it premiered on television. According to Acord, we should expect to see more of [...]
So what’d everybody think of all the Super Bowl ads last night? While there’s been some discussion as to whether or not Groupon’s ads were the most offensive or all the ads in general have just plain stunk lately, let’s not forget all the awful, overfunded, offensive ads from years past.
With the Super Bowl around the corner, it’s probably no surprise that people all over the US are getting excited – more surprising, perhaps, is that US Immigration and Customs Enforcement forces are amongst those most active in the run-up to the big day.
