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Super Bowl Commercial Analysis

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On Sunday, February 5, 2017 Super Bowl LI was played by the Atlanta Falcons and the New England Patriots. At half time, the score was 3-21 with the Atlanta Falcons in the lead. By the end of the game, the New England Patriots came back by 25 points plus 6 more in overtime, winning the Super Bowl LI 34-28. This was the first Super Bowl for anyone to come back from more than a ten point deficit and also the first Super Bowl to go into overtime. According to Wikipedia, “…each league was redesignated as a "conference", and the game has since been played between the conference champions to determine the NFL's league champion.” The Super Bowl was first played in 1967. Some Americans even say that the Super Bowl is an unofficial American holiday. The Super Bowl is the second largest United States food consumption day falling right under Thanksgiving. In 2015, the Super Bowl XLIX became the most watched television program in history. The average came in at 114.4 million viewers. International Business Time states, …show more content…

The commercial starts out as a boy standing outside of a girl’s house throwing skittles in her window trying to get her attention while yelling, “Katie!” Little does the boy know, Katie and her family are taking turns sitting on the floor catching the skittles in their mouths. As the family moves down the line, a robber, a cop there to take the robber away, and a gopher are joining in. This commercial copies the old, “boy throwing rocks at the girl’s window,” theme. The social media platforms being used is the Twitter hashtag, “#TasteTheRainbow.” Skittles was very active within their Twitter during the Super Bowl LI tweeting at other businesses. US Weekly tweeted a gif of the Skittles commercial at Skittles and said “KATIE! @Skittles’ #SB51 commercial brought the whole neighborhood together.” Using their hashtag, Skittles replied, “All good friendships start with a bag of Skittles

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