I get the feeling that coverage of Super Bowl ads has stepped up a notch this year, don’t you? At the same time, I’m not excited about what we’ll see because:
1. it will be available online anyway and
2. only one or two advertisers will really use their spot to drive web traffic (GoDaddy will be one).
Here are some of the useful and/or interesting sources I’ve seen regarding the game:
During
– Spotbowl: vote on ads during the game
– Akamai’s Advertising Net Usage Index
– AdFreak live blog
– YouTube alternative dot-com ads
Pre-game
– Ad Age roundup and ad matrix
– New York Times on how to get more mileage out of a spot
– Wall Street Journal on ads for the ads
– Consumer ads: NFL, Doritos, Chevy
And if you care about the game, there’s ESPN’s Super Bowl Central.