Super Bowl: What Ad Club New York marketers expect from the big game

Kodi Foster, head of brand initiatives, Outbrain

In terms of the creative, it'll be business as usual at the Super Bowl; big, powerful, emotive statements get people talking. Celebrities get people talking. What will be interesting to see is if brands' increased investment in the Super Bowl - $4.5m is a lot of money, will incentivize them to go beyond just the 30 TV second spot and find ways of continuing the conversation they introduced via their Super Bowl ad with digital audiences across other platforms and devices.

James Riess, head of mobile strategy, InMobi

Super Bowl spending will always showcase the glitzy, big ad campaigns intended to set trends for the year to come. What is new this year, or at least increasingly evident, is brands magnifying the value of their ads by building momentum ahead of the game largely via mobile.

Not only are consumers spending more minutes each day with their phones, but they are also dual-screen parallel processing. And research on classic mobile behavior shows us that sustained game play and downloads are typically witnessed between 6.00-8.00pm, right in the center of prime time TV.

With mobile offering ever more accurate audiences together with options of either dedicated campaigns or programmatic buying, marketers are finding the results they need and the flexibility they have always wanted.

Jordan Cohen, CMO, Fluent

Like previous years, the 2015 Super Bowl is sure to bring a collection of innovative, controversial, and budget-blowing ads to the 111.5 million+ Americans projected to be tuning in. All tricks and stunts aside, I predict that more advertising brands will include participatory calls-to-action in their 2015 commercials to gain an incremental and highly measurable return on their $4.5m 30-second spot investments.

Across Fluent’s advertising network, we now see over 60 per cent of American consumers accessing the Internet from their phones and tablets instead of desktop or laptop computers. This translates to more viewers simultaneously watching the game while engaging with the ads they’re watching live. As a result, social engagement will be active throughout the game, enabling advertisers to involve consumers beyond their 30 seconds of air time.

John Osborn, president & CEO, BBDO New York

First of all, everyone will say they were disappointed in the ads although someone/some brand will tweet and capture the imagination of viewers at virtually no cost.

Media will spend a week recapping the ads, the various surveys and polls and then spend the following week covering the same Super Bowl related news from the previous week.

Finally, the Patriots will win.

Russell Sapienza, principal, entertainment and media advisor practice for Price Waterhouse Cooper

If I were to award two 'Best Of....' trophies this year, one would go to the brand that puts themselves, for the first time, on my 'consumer map'. I want to see a spot from an unknown brand that makes me say, "Wow, never heard of these guys until today.....gonna give them a shot."

My other 'Best Of'..." would go to the brand that is most successful in doing two things: (A) successfully continues generating engaging conversation of the brand for weeks among family and friends, [since this is most likely to yield a purchase conversion, right?], and (B) doesn't insult my intelligence (not that there's anything wrong with that).

While previous Super Bowl spots may have inspired me to sip on a soft drink while driving my new car to the cruise ship terminal for a vacation that I found on a terrific web travel site, I really hope to be inspired by the newbies in 2015.

The trophies await!