For the past six years, two professors from Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management, play Monday-morning quarterback by conducting a review of the Super Bowl advertising. Tim Calkins and Derek Rucker, along with a student panel of Kellogg marketing students, watch the game and rate the commercials.
NU's is the only review that uses an academic criteria to rank the ads. Unlike other popularity-based rankings, the Kellogg Review evaluates an advertisement on key factors that can help drive sales and favorably impact the company's bottom line and brand awareness
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FAST FACTS ABOUT 2010 SUPER BOWL ADS
From Super Bowl Advertising Review Bloghttp://kelloggsuperbowlreview.wordpress.com/
Controversial anti-abortion ad is scheduled to air; featuring the mother of college football's Heisman trophy winner Tim Tebow
No appearance by legendary Clydesdales in Anheuser-Busch ads.
No Pepsi, Diet Pepsi, Gatorade or Sierra Mist ads; a huge shift for Pepsi brands, a core Super Bowl player, with spots running in the last 23 games
E-Trade's Talking Babies return for the third consecutive year.
More than 1,000 people sent in ideas for consumer generated ads for CareerBuilder.com; 3 will air.
Chrysler returns to Super Bowl; no U.S. automaker advertised in 2009. last year
