Snickers Wins First USA TODAY Ad Meter Title
February 08 2010 - 5:00AM
PR Newswire (US)
MCLEAN, Va., Feb. 8 /PRNewswire/ -- Snickers grabbed the top spot
in USA TODAY's Super Bowl Ad Meter for the first time. The Snickers
ad featuring Betty White and Abe Vigoda in a casual football game
was the most popular, according to USA TODAY's Ad Meter. Volunteers
gave the ad a score of 8.68 (on a scale of 0 to 10). Go to
admeter.usatoday.com to see full USA TODAY Super Bowl Ad Meter
results, watch all the Super Bowl ads, rate the ads yourself and
see what others think. Complete results are also available in
today's editions of USA TODAY. The top five ads and final ratings
are: 1. Mars Snickers - Betty White and Abe Vigoda in casual
football game - 8.68 2. Frito-Lay Doritos - Dog with bark collar
rules - 8.27 3. Anheuser-Busch Bud Light - Man builds a house out
of beer cans - 7.91 4. Anheuser-Bush - Clydesdale's friend - 7.82
5. Coca-Cola - Sleepwalker going through rough terrain gets cold
Coke - 7.36 USA TODAY created the Super Bowl Ad Meter in 1989 to
gauge consumers' opinions about TV's most expensive commercials.
This year Ad Meter was held in McLean, Va. and San Diego, Calif.
246 volunteers charted their second-by-second reactions to national
Super Bowl commercials using hand-held meters to register how much
they liked or disliked an ad. A computer averaged the scores
continuously. Previous Ad Meter winners: 2009 - Frito-Lay Doritos:
Crystal ball sees free Doritos - 8.46 2008 - Anheuser-Busch:
Dalmatian trains Clydesdale to make beer wagon team - 8.73 2007 -
Anheuser-Busch: Crabs worship a cooler of Budweiser on the beach -
8.56 2006 - Anheuser-Busch: Secret refrigerator stocked with Bud
Light - 8.39 2005 - Anheuser-Busch: Pilot jumps out of airplane for
Bud Light - 8.65 2004 - Anheuser-Busch: Owners demonstrate how
their dogs fetch Bud Light - 9.04 2003 - Anheuser-Busch: Replay -
8.99 2002 - Anheuser-Busch: Satin Sheets - 9.11 2001 -
Anheuser-Busch: Cedric's dream date - 8.63 2000 - Anheuser-Busch:
Rex the Dog recalls his worst day - 8.09 1999 - Anheuser-Busch:
Separated at Birth - 8.01 1998 - Pepsi: Flying Geese - 9.08 1997 -
Pepsi: Dancing bears - 8.22 1996 - Pepsi: On security camera, Coke
driver nabs Pepsi - 9.42 1995 - Pepsi: Boy gets sucked into bottle
- 9.66 1994 - Pepsi: Chimp escapes lab, hits the beach - 9.34 1993
- McDonald's: Jordan and Bird shoot hoops - 9.00 1992 - Nike: Bugs
Bunny and Michael Jordan team - 8.51 1991 - Diet Pepsi: Ray
Charles' new jingle catches on - 8.52 1990 - Nike: Famous
announcers call imaginary game - 8.17 1989 - American Express: Dana
Carvey and Jon Lovitz travel to the Super Bowl - 7.52. USA TODAY
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