Based on Kantar Media Audiences’ commercial ratings analysis for Sunday night’s Super Bowl telecast, Cadillac scored the highest audience, averaging a 43.5 average household rating. Automotive brands accounted for 6 of the top 25 rated ads – Cadillac, Kia, Hyundai, Honda, Fiat & Toyota all scored over a 41 rating. NBC promos also performed well, ranking 3 of the top 9 rated ads.
While the top five rated ads appeared in the 4th quarter of the hotly contested game, the Doritos and E-Trade placements airing in the second quarter actually ranked #10 & 11, respectively. However, in terms of total commercial all ads placed in the 4th quarter performed better than the program average of the delivery, virtually game.
Top 25 Rated Super Bowl Commercials
Title / Campaign | Start Time | Length | Length |
Cadillac Autos |
9:38:37 PM |
0000:30 |
43.46 |
NBC-Awake |
9:40:07 PM |
0000:30 |
43.38 |
Go Daddy.com |
9:39:37 PM |
0000:30 |
43.28 |
HIST-Swamp People |
9:39:07 PM |
0000:30 |
43.13 |
NBC-Evening Line-Up 0000:20 |
9:20:51 PM |
0000:20 |
42.51 |
Careerbuilder |
9:20:21 PM |
0000:30 |
42.29 |
Kia Autos |
9:19:21 PM |
0001:00 |
42.25 |
Samsung Galaxy Note |
9:24:34 PM |
0001:30 |
42.23 |
NBC-Voice |
9:26:04 PM |
0000:20 |
42.23 |
Doritos |
7:42:29 PM |
0000:30 |
42.22 |
E Trade Financial |
7:42:59 PM |
0000:30 |
42.21 |
Hyundai Autos |
9:11:18 PM |
0000:30 |
42.12 |
Paramount |
7:43:29 PM |
0000:30 |
42.1 |
Honda Trucks |
9:05:40 PM |
0001:00 |
42 |
NBC-Smash |
9:07:40 PM |
0000:30 |
42 |
Pepsi Max |
8:39:35 PM |
0000:30 |
41.98 |
Bud Light |
9:11:48 PM |
0001:00 |
41.97 |
Relativity |
9:06:40 PM |
0000:30 |
41.97 |
Metlife |
9:07:10 PM |
0000:30 |
41.96 |
Fiat Autos |
8:38:35 PM |
0001:00 |
41.91 |
NFL.com |
8:59:23 PM |
0001:00 |
41.81 |
Toyota Autos |
8:41:15 PM |
0000:30 |
41.78 |
Century 21 Real Estate |
8:42:45 PM |
0000:30 |
41.73 |
Dannon Oikos |
8:42:15 PM |
0000:30 |
41.72 |
Coca-Cola Classic |
8:41:45 PM |
0000:30 |
41.67 |
Background
Kantar Media Return Path Data (RPD) is based on second/second tuning records passively collected from set top boxes within a managed panel of 100,000 digital households nationally dispersed across the U.S.
Actual second/second tuning is matched with Kantar Media Intelligence ad occurrence information, enabling precise measurement of audience behavior with specific program and commercial content.
About Kantar Media
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