Snickers wins first USA TODAY Ad Meter title
McLean, VA :Snickers grabbed the top spot in USA TODAY’s Super Bowl Ad Meter for the first time. The Snickers ad featuring Betty White and Abe Vigoda in a casual football game was the most popular, according to USA TODAY’s Ad Meter. Volunteers gave the ad a score of 8.68 (on a scale of 0 to 10).
Go to admeter.usatoday.com to see full USA TODAY Super Bowl Ad Meter results, watch all the Super Bowl ads, rate the ads yourself and see what others think. Complete results are also available in today’s editions of USA TODAY.
The top five ads and final ratings are:
1. Mars Snickers – Betty White and Abe Vigoda in casual football game – 8.68
2. Frito-Lay Doritos – Dog with bark collar rules – 8.27
3. Anheuser-Busch Bud Light – Man builds a house out of beer cans – 7.91
4. Anheuser-Bush – Clydesdale’s friend – 7.82
5. Coca-Cola – Sleepwalker going through rough terrain gets cold Coke – 7.36
USA TODAY created the Super Bowl Ad Meter in 1989 to gauge consumers’ opinions about TV’s most expensive commercials. This year Ad Meter was held in McLean, Va. and San Diego, Calif. 246 volunteers charted their second-by-second reactions to national Super Bowl commercials using hand-held meters to register how much they liked or disliked an ad. A computer averaged the scores continuously.