Category: Data-Labor-Technology Stories

Intuit is making its Super Bowl debut with a 15-second spot from agency of record Phenomenon and Passion Animation Studios. The ad is part of Intuit’s first corporate brand campaign, which also includes a long-form online ad from Phenomenon and animation studio Passion Animation Studios, perhaps best known for its Chipotle and Spanish Lottery campaigns….

Ram’s Super Bowl ad featuring a voice sample from Martin Luther King Jr. didn’t make everyone want to run out and buy a truck. Many people took to Twitter to express what they saw as a disrespectful use of the civil rights icon’s words and voice. Wait, why’d the MLK estate let Dodge use King’s…

While rivals like T-Mobile and Sprint have been perennial Super Bowl players, Verizon has stayed away from the big game since 2011. But the carrier just made a grand return to advertising’s biggest stage–with a poignant 60-second spot from McCann New York that put the market leader’s familiar claim in a very different context. The…

On Sunday night during Super Bowl LII, Adweek will bring you real-time reviews of every commercial immediately after it airs. Follow us on Twitter @Adweek, where the reviews will first appear, and be sure to click the links below to see all the ads again and our instant reviews of every one. (Links will go…

Feb. 4 is Super Bowl Sunday this year, but it’s Friends Day every year for Facebook. Facebook reached birthday No. 14 Sunday, and as it has for the last two years, the social network brought back its Friends Day videos, which are pre-populated with photos of users’ memories with their friends. Image choices can be…

Dodge celebrates the Super Bowl in a spot created by Austin agency GSD&M that ran during NBC’s Super Bowl Pregame show. The spot opens with a voiceover extolling the ability of the Super Bowl to “bring an entire nation together” over footage of friends and family enjoying the Big Game. “Whatever magic it is that…

As visitors attend today’s Super Bowl in Minneapolis, one hometown ad agency is giving people a chance to head home from the land of ice and “Minnesota nice”–their very own snowball. This weekend, Space150 has deployed its own snowball vending machine about 15-minutes away from the site of Super Bowl LII, hand-packing hundreds of frozen…

Philadelphia-based deli foods maker Dietz & Watson is running a regional Super Bowl pre-game ad with a knowing wink to Bud Light’s popular campaign playing off the “Dilly Dilly” catchphrase. The spot was created by Red Tettemer O’Connell + Partners, which Dietz & Watson recently named as its agency of record. It opens with Ye…

A legal battle starting Monday could set a new course for self-driving vehicles, as Uber defends itself against accusations that it stole technology secrets of Alphabet’s Google offshoot, Waymo.

Ever since This Is Us’ Jan. 23 episode revealed that a faulty Crock-Pot–given to the show’s Pearson family by a neighbor–was responsible for igniting the fire that helps lead to the demise of patriarch Jack in the Sunday’s post-Super Bowl episode, some fans have been blaming the brand for its (fictional) role in Jack’s death….