note "most engaging" includes not just viewing, but people who hit rewind to watch it again. Based on the chart below, more people re-watched Tracy Porter's interception than anything else (including commercials) during the game.
via TiVo:
Power to the People! Doritos User Generated Ads Score Big Again, Crowned #1 Spot According to TiVo 9 of 10 Most Engaging Commercials Aired in First-Half of the Game, Proving Once Again That When the Action Increases, the Audience Is Glued to Game
ALVISO, CA -- (MARKET WIRE) -- 02/08/2010 -- TiVo Inc. (NASDAQ: TIVO), the creator and a leader of advertising solutions and television services for digital video recorders (DVRs), announced this year's top ten Super Bowl most engaging moments. This information was prepared using aggregated, anonymous, second-by-second audience measurement data about how TiVo subscribers watched the game, and for the first time, determined not just the most viewed commercials, but instead the most engaging ads throughout the game.
Doritos has ridden their unique user-generated strategy all the way to the top, with the spot "House Rules," featuring a young boy telling his mother's date to keep his hands off his mom and his Doritos. Doritos has had strong top-five showings since the start of its user-generated strategy back in 2007, but this is the first time one of the ads claimed the top spot. Last year's champion Go Daddy didn't even make the top ten this year.
The number two and three ads both featured women getting tackled, albeit in tongue in cheek ways. Betty White absorbed a big blow for Snickers while Pam Tebow took a hit from her son Tim in their anticipated spot for Focus on the Family. In addition to the #1 ad, Doritos also earned the #4 spot, giving it two in the top five. Rounding out the top five was Intel, a company known for a different sort of chip altogether.
"This year TiVo was able to provide not just the most-viewed commercials, but rather information on the most engaging ads throughout the game," said Todd Juenger, Vice President & General Manager, TiVo Audience Research and Measurement. "This year some brands returned to the well and scored big, yet other brands tried what worked in the past and didn't receive as much fanfare. Through it all, it seems the common theme in this year's list is yet again humor, as all of the ads that scored the highest make people laugh."
This year, the most engaging ads were determined by looking for spots with the biggest bump in viewership relative to the surrounding 15 minutes of programming, offering a true reflection of change in viewership. In previous years TiVo had listed ads with highest overall audience, which can be a function of not only the spot itself, but also where it fell in the game. For instance, last year, most of the highest rated spots aired in the fourth quarter of the game when the overall audience for the game was also highest.
Many pundits wondered in advance if The Who could command a half-time audience in the same fashion as last year's show featuring Bruce Springsteen. TiVo showed that The Who could keep pace with the Boss, measuring almost identical viewer engagement numbers as last year.
The big-play of the game this year, Tracy Porter's title-clinching interception return, was by far and away the night's most watched game-moment. Last year's most watched moment was also a play rather than an advertisement, when Santonio Holmes' tip-toe touchdown grab gave the Pittsburgh Steelers the lead in the final minute of play.
TiVo Highlights:
The top ten rated commercials of this year's game were:
1. Doritos "House Rules"
2. Snickers "You're Not You When You're Hungry"
3. Focus on the Family "The Tebows Celebrate Family, Celebrate Life"
4. Doritos "Underdog"
5. 2010 Intel Core Processors "Jeoffrey the Robot Gets Hurt"
6. E*Trade Financial "Baby Love Triangle"
7. Bud Light "Observatory"
8. CareerBuilder "Casual Fridays"
9. TruTV's NFL Full Contact "Punxsutawney Polamalu"
10.Hyundai Sonata "Brett Favre MVP and Still Playing at 50"
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the top commercials in the 1st quarter are suspect to me, seems people paid attention in beginning dozed off and came back at the end
To each their own, I suppose. I didn’t like any of the Doritos ads except the fake funeral one and I would’ve put the casual Friday one much higher on that list. The Budweiser Lost spoof ad was also funny.
While I’m not a fan of this method of advertisement measurement, I’m not sure what other way would be more effective. A random poll of households a day later to see which commercials people remembered?
And, in my opinion, Google had the best ad of the night.
Shelly, I agree with you. The funeral one was actually made by a friend of one of the attendees at the party I was at, so we were all rooting for that one. I thought the one with the kid was the lamest of the three.
CrimsonV, the USA Today poll is based on a panel (I’m not sure how large) that rates each commercial on a second-by-second basis. That seems a bit better in terms of rating actually liking the ad vs. just watching it, but I doubt the panel is very big at all.
There were 4 Doritos commercials, Julia.
1. Dog
2. Kid
3. Ninja
4. Funeral
I’ve watched that Betty White Doritos ad 7 or 8 times so far. Still pretty freakin’ funny… and a brilliant punch line to boot.
Polar Bear, the ninja one (if I’m thinking of the same one, the one where he took the Doritos from someone’s locker) aired during the post game for me, not during the actual game.
I’m a sucker for the E*Trade babies.
The Doritos ad with the kid was definitely my favorite of the night.
I did love the LOST parody as well, though.
Here’s how I felt about the Doritos commericials,
1. Tim the Dorito Samurai-Amazing, far and away best of the night
2. Dog-Funny, but expected.
3. Funeral-Funny, but overdrawn
4. Kid-Expected, cliche and just boring.
I thought the Doritos funeral ad sucked. The one with the dog was the best, and the one with the kid was alright. But overall, I’d say the ads from Snickers (Betty White!) and ETrade were the best. I also loved the Kia ad featuring Muno from Yo Gabba Gabba. My little cousin is obsessed with that show so it was funny to see the character pop up in a Super Bowl commercial.
The Doritos and dog collar was the only one I LOL over, very funny. Did not like the Snicker ad with Betty White at all, or the Doritos and the kid. The Human Bridge was clever and the Longhorn was cute. Hate the E-Trade babies. The only time I watch commercials is Superbowl time. Love DVRs.
As an employee of Zooppa.com, a platform for brands and agencies to produce user-generated advertising campaigns, seeing that engagement was highest for a user-generated commercial is no big surprise. The idea of ads created by real people is extremely intriguing to the viewer, even if in the case of the Super Bowl those real people turn out to be video pros.