Bud ‘Secret Fridge’ Ad A Flop According to Brain Scan Study

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Forget pontifications from ad pundits and polls from USA Today, the real winner of the Super Bowl most-liked crown is Disney’s “I’m Going to Disney” and Budweiser’s “Office” ad. This, according to a functional magnetic resonance imaging study sent to us by Adrants reader John Brock and conducted at the UCLA Ahmanson-Lovelace Brain Mapping Center by Marco Iacoboni which measured brain response while the subjects watched the Super Bowl. Even more telling were the losers. The study found the much loved Budweiser “Secret Fridge” ad to be one of the least liked. You can read all the gritty scientific details here.

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