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Budweiser clocks another Super Bowl ad win in recall report

Unaided brand awareness and plot attribution of this year’s top Super Bowl ads was up from 2025, according to a new report from Big Chalk.


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Super Bowl 2026 brings in 125 million viewers, down slightly from last year

Viewership peaked at 137.8 million viewers, becoming the “highest peak viewership in US TV history,” per NBC.


Robotic hands with a green backdrop, a screenshot from OpenAI's 2026 Super Bowl ad
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OpenAI’s CMO on the brand’s Super Bowl spot, the AI Bowl, and Anthropic’s ads

“We so strongly believe in people and that these are tools to extend, not replace, people,” Kate Rouch told us.


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Budweiser won the Super Bowl

The beer giant topped USA Today’s Ad Meter for the 10th time and scored highly on several other ad rankers.


Photo collage featuring Super Bowl ads that reference poop, including Jason Kelce standing with a shovel near a steaming mound of manure, William Shatner wearing a bandolier made of mini Raisin Bran boxes, and a can of beer from Columbia Sportswear made with bear poop
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This Super Bowl, the ads are in the toilet. Literally

“People will talk about the s--t ads,” one expert said. Whether that talk will lead to long-term results is another story.


Backstreet Boys pose mid song in front of a crowd of customers as film crew capture it on camera.
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Double duty: How a filmmaking company made a Super Bowl ad while shooting a feature film

Panay Films took on a Backstreet Boys–led T-Mobile spot at the same time it filmed “Somedays,” starring Billy Bob Thornton, Ariana Greenblatt, and Pamela Anderson.


stills from Yorgos Lanthimos' ads for Squarespace (Emma Stone screaming in a black-and-white ad) and Grubhub (an ornate dinner table with a fish-eye lens)
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Why Grubhub and Squarespace tapped the same director for the Super Bowl

Award-winning director Yorgos Lanthimos, who has previously made ads for brands like Gucci and Jameson, is making his Big Game debut with the two brands.

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