While most advertisers rise to the occasion and produce at least serviceable ads that are designed to run before 100 million or so people, a surprising number of them belly flop.
That's not such a bad thing. Too much caution with your Super Bowl ad and you have nothing but boring, formulaic pap. Try too hard to copy the winning ads of last year and you wind up looking too derivative.
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However, there are cases where you'd think somewhere down the line someone in the room might have said, "No, seriously you want to run this?" but no one did. That's the head-scratching conclusion behind this list of some of the worst Super Bowl ads of all time. Note we say "some of" because there ought to be an asterisk next to the headline saying "that are still available on YouTube." Lost to the ages are most crappy ads from the late '60s, the '70s, the '80s and much of the '90s. Even many of the last decade's ads seem to have been purged. That's a shame, because at least one ad should be on this list and isn't. That would be possibly the worst Super Bowl ad of all time, Just for Feet's breathtakingly stupid "Kenya Mission" ad, which can be found here.
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