Super Bowl Ads and an Ad-related Rant.

In hindsight, not a lot to say about this year's Super Bowl ads. More of the same really.
Budweiser went adorable with horses. Everyone else (including Bud Light) went violent. Doritos had the best ads by far (both "Crystal Ball" and "Power of the Crunch").

I will admit it's cool that an amateur ad beat out Budweiser for the first time in about a decade for #1 ad. It shows that good advertising can come from anywhere.

On the flip side, there was a story posted on Digg on Monday about people in Paris graffiti-ing (sp?) billboards in full view of police in order to gain publicity for their anti-ad movement. Meanwhile, 90% of the populous of said Digg regales them as heroes, positing that advertisers didn't ask our permission to advertise to us, so these people don't need permission to spray paint all over their ads.

I get it, I'm in advertising, it's Digg, it's a forum, John Gabriel's Greater Internet Dickwad Theory, but it still drives me nuts that people are that ignorant and biased that they want to call for the destruction of an industry that pays for almost everything they enjoy. Yeah, there are some crappy ads that no one wants to look at and/or listen to, but some people wear ugly shirts or paint their houses an ugly color. We don't assume we can do what we want to them, their shirts or their houses. It's respect, plain and simple. I think people forget that.

That is all.