Winner of Chevy Super Bowl college ad contest announced
After wading through video entries submitted by 820 teams from 230 schools, Chevrolet selected five teams totaling only 11 students to come to Detroit in late October. The candidates would have the chance to sharpen their advertising skills and work with industry professionals before presenting their final commercial submissions for Chevy's Super Bowl ad contest. When all the votes were in, 19-year old Katie Crabb from North Prairie, Wisconsin was the winner. Katie was the youngest participant in the competition, as well as the only solo finalist
Crabb, who entered the contest as an assignment for her freshman journalism class at the University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee, will see her commercial run during tonight's Super Bowl telecast. The cost to run the 30-second commercial is somewhere around $2.6 million dollars. This is a big deal for Katie, as her work is being debuted during an event that's often watched as much for the commercials as it is for the actual game.
As a part of her prize, Katie will intern at Chevrolet's ad agency, Campbell-Ewald, but she says she will also keep her job at Applebee's until she graduates. At that point, Campbell-Ewald gave her a standing offer to start full-time with the firm, but Crabb says she'll just have to see what happens.
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Thanks for the tip Nellie Lide
[Source: Palm Beach Post via AP]
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Jonathan A 4:28PM (2/04/2007)
Worst commercial evar.
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Bob the Builder 4:36PM (2/04/2007)
Wow it really takes a genius to think of an ad that is solely comprised of shirtless men washing a car.
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Mike 4:41PM (2/04/2007)
I'm going out on a limb here, but I don't think that grinding, shirtless men are really what the Superbowl demographic wants to see. I'm not a big fan of the commercial in the first place, but it seems especially poorly suited to Superbowl Sunday.
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B-NOIT 4:41PM (2/04/2007)
This is a joke, right? 820 teams couldn't come up with anything better than this? Eesh.
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Matt 4:48PM (2/04/2007)
If I ever meet a guy who "loves" the HHR, remind me to PUNCH HIM IN THE FACE.
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Experiment Jon 4:52PM (2/04/2007)
Wow. I have to say that this commercial is quite the strange one. The shock value is definitly there, but for some reason, I'm not too big on the old shirtless man...or any of those other guys, for that matter coming up to my car on the street giving me a carwash. Naturally, this ad is geared towards women, but then again, in comparison to men, how many women are actually watching the game? Interesting though...
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RC 5:14PM (2/04/2007)
its clever but the super bowl target is mostly men, so why would you have men with their shirts off?
Real men like the HHR? atleast make it for the siverado. It also seems to suggest that the men are gay.
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AK 9:26PM (2/04/2007)
Worst execution of a commercial EVER.
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Stretch 7:39PM (2/04/2007)
I second #5. HHR is one ugly car.
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5 Watt 8:03PM (2/04/2007)
Its better than man kissing, but not by much
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Ryan 8:19PM (2/04/2007)
It's amazing that Chevy would put this out there. Who are they targeting with this ad? Guys buying the HHR? Please. If anything they should use the Super Bowl time to show a Vette, not half naked men humping an SUV starter kit.
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quagmire 8:18PM (2/04/2007)
Ok, just swap out the women in the car with men and swap the shirtless men with bikini wearing women( Wish this was in Europe as they would allow topless women. Damn FCC. lol) then this would be less creepy. The person who did it was female so I guess it makes sense why there are shirtless men instead of bikini women washing the car. But, she needs to learn who is the target audience here. In this case with the Super Bowl, it is men. And men don't generally want to see men stripping and washing a car.
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gryhrt 8:30PM (2/04/2007)
Um, it's a parody, folks. You know, a play on the overtired "bikini car wash" theme?
I think it's pretty funny, though I agree that the Super Bowl may not be the best airtime for it.
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Big jim 9:26PM (2/04/2007)
to weird
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HotRodzNKustoms 10:12PM (2/04/2007)
When I saw this commercial today during the superbowl I laghed so hard. It was a properly funny commercial targeting both men and women. They could have used muscle men ripped out to the 9's but the decided to use a skinny old man and guys who look like the average man. It was just funny.
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laserwizard 8:32AM (2/05/2007)
All of the GM commercials were awful. I couldn't believe how much money GM through away on commercials that were so pointless.
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P to the C 8:24AM (2/05/2007)
When the ad shows the girl with her eyes closed saying "Tell me when it's over" I looked over at my wide who was doing the exact same thing. Yes, please tell me when it's over. I don't mean to be a hater though, it was about as clever and interesting as any of the other crap thrown out during the Superbowl.
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bill 2:09PM (2/05/2007)
This commercial was hilarious I couldn't stop laughing after i saw it yesterday. Besides it beats those phony toyota commercials. You gotta be stupid to buy a toyota truck. Plus that other Chevy commercial showed just how many different types of people buy Chevy's. I'd rather drive a Chevy than a toyota any day.
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Mama J 4:16PM (2/05/2007)
I must say that this commercial was the talk of the office - mostly women, who DO watch the Superbowl, thank you very much. (Though I have to say that last night neither the game nor the commercials were up to snuff - the humor of what the application of water to a pro football game does to the performance was amusing, however.)
And, yes, turn the half-naked guys into bikini-clad women and I'll bet a good 90% of the complainers on here wouldn't complain at all, or find it in the least bit "weird". The genius was in taking the expected and making it the unexpected, I think.
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Mike i-lik-it 6:30PM (2/05/2007)
Are you guys for real. I mean you guys can't be Hairy, Knuckle Dragging Cavemen can you? About 90 million watched Super Bowl. Let say 1/3 more or less Kids, 1/3 or more Men and guess what I/3 or less women. Now this ad just targeted those women and some men using an old but amusing premise. This spot did what it was suppose too, it hopefully grabbed attention of female audience and obviously grab some male attention, if at least to those wonder like some of you here, as to why it being aired during Super Bowl. Ad has people talking and hopefully thinking about Chevy. Money well spent.
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