The best thing about Sunday’s low-scoring NFL Super Bowl football game was the ads, hands down.
The CRTC has outlawed the simultaneous substitution of American ads with Canadian ads for the last three Super Bowls.
However, the “New NAFTA” trade agreement between Canada, Mexico and the United States will again allow the practise, once it’s ratified.
That means this was the last Super Bowl that Canadians could watch the big budget U.S. ads.
It’s all about money. Bell Media can’t sell its ad space for as much when almost half of Canadians switch to the American network instead.
In case you missed them, here are the Super Bowl 2019 commercials.
My take: these were my favourites in no particular order:
- Stella Artois with Sarah Jessica Parker and Jeff Bridges
- Mint Mobile chunky milk
- Devour Meals food porn
- Bubly and Buble
- Michelob Ultra ASM
- Amazon Echo fails