In professional American football, the Super Bowl is the championship game of the National Football League (NFL). The game and its ancillary festivities constitute Super Bowl Sunday. Over the years it has become the most-watched U.S. television broadcast of the year, and has become likened to a de facto U.S. national holiday. In addition, many popular singers and musicians have performed during the Super Bowl's pre-game and halftime ceremonies. Super Bowl Sunday is the second-largest U.S. food consumption day, following Thanksgiving.

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USA Today Facebook Ad Meter wins Doritos Super Bowl 2012 Ad Sling Baby

The Super Bowl 2012 just got more expensive for Doritos. The Doritos Super Bowl 2012 Ad titled Sling Baby won the Facebook version of the USA Today Ad Meter. The Doritos Super Bowl Ad titled Man's Best Friend won the traditional USA Today Ad Meter 2012. Read more 6 days ago, 2:27am CST

 

USA Today Dons Doritos Ad As Best Super Bowl Spot

"Man's Best Friend" ad scores well with panel viewers Read more 6 days ago, 3:25pm CST

 

The Best Super Bowl Ads As Voted By Hulu-ers

Did your favorite make the list? Read more 1 week ago, 1:31pm CST

 

Samsung fumbles Super Bowl Ad for Galaxy Note by focusing on the Stylus

The Apple Fanboys have a field day with the Samsung Super Bowl 2012 Ad. Read more Feb 6 2012, 2:03pm CST

 

OK Go Needing/Getting Super Bowl Music Video goes Viral

Chevy partnered with OK Go to make the first ever Super Bowl music video. The car plays the music while driving on a race track. Ok Go Needing/Getting is topping the viral video charts right now. Read more Feb 6 2012, 1:42pm CST

 

The Worst Super Bowl Ads of 2012

There are always some Super Bowl Commercials that just fail to communicate or entertain. This year no Super Bowl commercial raised any serious controversy, but some ads should just have stayed in regular TV programming. Read more Feb 6 2012, 10:26am CST

 

Watch the Sexiest Super Bowl Ads of 2012

Watch the sexiest Super Bowl 2012 commercials staring supermodels, race car driver, fitness guru and a soccer player. Read more Feb 6 2012, 10:02am CST

 

Best Celebrity Performances in 2012 Super Bowl Ads

We tracked 34 celebrities that appear in 2012 Super Bowl Ads. Who made the best performance. We put together the Top 5 Celebrity performances in 2012 Super Bowl commercials. Read more Feb 6 2012, 9:46am CST

 

The Super Bowl 2012 Movie Trailers

Watch all 2012 Super Bowl Movie Trailers. There are much less Super Bowl movie ads compared to last year, but all of the are great movies. Read more Feb 6 2012, 9:29am CST

 

TiVo Super Bowl Ad Ranking sees Doritos Dog Ad on Top as Most Engaging Super Bowl 2012 Ad

The TiVo Super Bowl Ad ranking is one of my favorite rankings as it is based on user behavior on a relatively large sample (41,666 households). Read more Feb 6 2012, 9:20am CST

 

M&M'S Super Bowl 2012 Ad Tops 2012 Kellogg Super Bowl Advertising Review

The M&M'S Super Bowl 2012 Ad introducing the new spokescandy Ms. Brown is definitely more entertaining than I thought given the premise. Now the M&M'S Super Bowl ad even won a ranking. Read more Feb 6 2012, 8:32am CST

 

Watch all Dog Super Bowl Ads from Super Bowl 2012

The dogs took over the Super Bowl 2012. Their names are Weego, Bolt, Mr. Quiggly and an unnamed huge dane. Watch all dog Super Bowl commercials below. Read more Feb 6 2012, 8:19am CST

 

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