During commercial breaks in the Super Bowl, advertisers did their best to serve up an antidote heavily spiked with fun.

Loretta _ Google Super Bowl Commercial 2020 In Google’s third consecutive Super Bowl ad, the tech giant helps an elderly man hold on to memories of his late wife Loretta with help from his AI ...

Budweiser's Clydesdale horses are getting a rest. For the first time in 37 years, the company isn't advertising during the Super Bowl.

The appeal to nostalgia definitely worked, as the ad ranked 10th overall in 2020's USA Today Ad Meter contest, in which panelists rate and rank Super Bowl commercials.

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Last year's Super Bowl on Fox averaged a whopping 102 million viewers. The game's ratings towered over the second highest-rated broadcast of 2020, which was the first presidential debate between ...