Excerpt: Extended spots enable marketers to engage audiences more comprehensively and can help drive share-of-voice in an increasingly cluttered environment, says David Lang, cco of Mindshare North America.
“By creating a commercial longer than the normal 30-second spot, brands have an opportunity to do just that, and they did it in many ways in tonight’s Super Bowl,” he added.
For Lang, notable among the night’s 60-second spots was Microsoft’s “We All Win,” to promote the Xbox Adaptive Controller, and Stella Artois’s long-form, lighthearted spot featuring Sarah Jessica Parker as Sex and the City’s Carrie Bradshaw and Jeff Bridges as the Dude from The Big Lebowski.
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