Monday, February 8, 2010

Neil's Post

Super Bowl XLIV- All About the Commercials 
By: Neil Rowen
Hello room 19! I am reporting live from the last four minutes of the Super Bowl. I have been seeing all of the commercials, including talking babies to Doritos people throwing Doritos, this game has been quite crazy. Companies desperately try to get a commercial during the Super Bowl. Do you think companies know what they are doing? You you know how much a 30-second commercial costs? A 30-second commercial costs... 3.01 million dollars! I think this is a total waste of money for a very famous company. If the company is new and not recognized by the public yet, that would be the perfect way to be noticed. 
I don't thin†k that the commercials on the Super Bowl make me want me to buy their products. Talking about commercials, did you know that before the game they have millions of merchandise that says "Saints winners of the XLIV Super Bowl" or "Colts win it all!"? Then, when a team loses, they take their merchandise and sell it in a country where they haven't seen the Super Bowl.
If you owned a company would you use 3.01 million dollars for a 30 second commercial? Do Super Bowl commercials make you want to buy a product more?

10 comments:

Himanshu said...

No, I would not because if I did that nobody would look at the ommercial so I would not even get much money. I don't think I would buy the commercial because even if the commercial was cool the product might not be that good. That might end up to be a waste of money.

Julie S. said...

Well, It's hard to say. I want to be noticed, but I also don't want to spend that much money on a 30 second commercial. These commercials do not encourage me to buy a product ( I don't even really pay atention to commercials!!!:))

Andy said...

If I owned a big company, I would definitely pay 3.01 million to have a add on Superbowl. I would do this because if a lot of people watch my commercial, some of them will get convinced that my items are good and will by our items. If my company was a small company, I would not buy a Super Bowl add because my company will loose a lot of money. Super Bowl ads don't convince me to buy their items. The ads are sometimes even fun to watch! I like especially the talking E-trade babies, the ad about a cop arresting people who weren't going green, and the sumo wrestler ad.

Brandon said...

Since it is very expensive, I do not want to spend 3,100,000 dollars on a commercial that is going to be in the Super Bowl. First, I don't want do that because it is pretty much useless if people know that they don't actually like that product. They might just ignore the commercial. Also, if the commercial pops up for five times, people might just get tired of the commercial and ignore it. Even if they do pay attention to it, what's the possibility of earning back the 3,100,000 dollars you spent on the commercial. So basically I don't want to make a commercial that expensive because they might ignore.

The Super Bowl commercials doesn't make me want to buy the product. First, I don't want to buy the product because I hardly even pay attention to the commercials. Whenever a commercial begins, I just ignore it and start to do something else. For example, I sometimes have a book with me, so I can read it during commercials. Second, I don't want to buy the product because I don't actually like anything that's on the commercials. The only thing I like about commercials is that sometimes its filled with lies and I get to hunt for every single one of those lies. That is why I do not want to buy the product.

Shoumil said...

No, because you will be able to to advertise cheaper in different ways. I also think it is a waste of money because it is just half a minute which is kind of like a rip off.

Angeline said...

I would not want to give up 3.01 dollars just for a 30 second comercial. It would basically be no use. It would not make me want to buy the product more if it was shown during the Super Bowl because I don't even watch it. (sorry if i insulted you because I don't watch the Super Bowl which most of you do.

j said...

I would not spend that much money on a coomercial. I know that usually, at least for me, commercials do not make me want to buy a product. Most people just fast-forward commercials. At least I know I do. They are just annoying because you just want to watch your real show. So no, I would not spend that much money just to make a commercial.

Jasmine said...

I would not spend that much money to make a commercial. I know usually,at least for me, commercials do not make me want to buy a product. Commercials are annoying because you just want to see your real show. At least for me. I usually just fast-forward commercials. I think it makes no sense to spend that much money to make something 30 seconds. So no, I would not spand that much money to make a commercial.

Anika S. said...

I do not think it will because mostly people are really just watching the Super Bowl but if they make the add way too beliveble people might buy it but only little. If some people are TOO CRAZY about the super bowl they might just by something they do not even NEED!!

Harsh said...

WOW!! $3,000,000 for one 30 second add?! That"s WAAAAAY too much money!! You could do a lot more things with that sort of money, like get new appliances. But it seems that it's worth to spend that much money since millions of fans are watching the Super Bowl. So that allows them to inform them about their new products.