Maybe because Nationwide cashed in like mad on its K-Fed pre-Super Bowl ad hype last year, everybody’s releasing their spots before the drop.
We don’t like the idea of opening our presents before Christmas day (which is what watching a Super Bowl ad a week in advance is like), but in some cases an early debut is a good thing.
That’s the case with Pepsi’s Bob’s House, a Super Bowl spot by BBDO for its Enable campaign that composes a deaf world we’re invited to watch from the sidelines. A silent ad is jarring, but it’s weirder still to be passive observers of a community whose jokes we don’t get.
Neat switcharoo on the minority experience. Can’t wait to see what kind of response this generates on Super Bowl Sunday.
See the making-of, which, thankfully, isn’t the usual self-congratulating “how I made my baby” swill.
