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Tim McLaughlin on February 7th, 2011

One of my favorite commercials from Super Bowl XLV was the NFL spot:     NFL Best Fans Ever Super Bowl Commercial I’d love to know how long it took them to track down all those clips before editing it together.

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Tim McLaughlin on February 7th, 2011

And by “local” I don’t mean Eminem. I mean Kevin Yon, the Michigan voice talent who did the voiceover for the 2-minute spot: Michigan man performs voice-over for Eminem Chrysler ad I’m happy to know that they stayed away from a celebrity voice.

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Tim McLaughlin on February 7th, 2011

If you missed any of the commercials from yesterday’s Super Bowl XLV, or just want to see them again, here’s a link to the AdBlitz channel on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/user/adblitz?feature=ticker You can even vote, until February 14th, for your favorites

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Tim McLaughlin on December 2nd, 2010

I’ve mentioned before that I’m not a huge fan of celebrity endorsements and commercials, but I have to admit that this TV commercial for the Logitech Revue caught my eye:     Logitech Revue with Google TV – Kevin Bacon

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Tim McLaughlin on November 12th, 2010

A post called Name that Voiceover… on Creative Fuel got me thinking about whether celebrity voiceovers are good or bad. There has been a trend in recent years, to use celebrity voices for commercials, animation, narrations and the like.  The thinking seems to be that if people have an emotional connection with that celebrity, it will [...]

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