Covering retail and finance for @adage. Formerly with @CrainsNewYork.

Joined June 2010
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This 90-second ad is a pricey #SuperBowl debut for Novo Nordisk, which is spending some $12 million to talk about risks and side effects alone.
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Early reads on the Novartis #SBLX “Relax Your Tight End” ad showed 52.6% of people had intense positive emotional response, per AI-powered platform DAIVID. This is a second #SuperBowl ad appearance from the pharma brand.
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Pepsi was an early winner of #SuperBowl ad releases this year, seeing higher engagement, likes and shares than other brands according to social listening data.
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This is a first #SuperBowl ad for Ro, which is one of several health care and pharma brands investing in the game. It’s become one of the game’s biggest brand categories. Here’s why: adage.com/super-bowl/aa-heal…
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Manscaped gets the PuppyMonkeyBaby Award this year for weird. #SBLX #SuperBowl
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Temu again?! The #SuperBowl spot from Temu, which ran three times, was created in-house this year.
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This is the first corporate brand #SuperBowl spot for Pfizer, which ran an Advil ad back in 2016.
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This is a first #SuperBowl buy for Etsy. The brand decided to air right before the #HalftimeShow to attract “the broadest audience possible,” the company told @AdAge.
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Outdoors retailer Bass Pro Shops is becoming a #SuperBowl regular. The brand had spots in 2021 and 2023 and now this year.
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A new agency-72andSunny-worked with E-Trade for #SuperBowl this year but it brought back the same baby, this time with a pickleball racquet.
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After last year’s #SuperBowl debut, Temu’s awareness skyrocketed and it became the most downloaded app in the U.S within weeks, with daily users surging 79% to 10.5 million from Dec. to late Feb.
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My 12-year-old on Tina Fey in the #SuperBowl ad for Booking.com: Look it's that lady from Mean Girls!
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This is the first of three #SuperBowl spots for @HomesDotCom as it relaunches its brand. What do you think of its choice of celeb spokespeople?
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This is the third consecutive #SuperBowl buy for Booking.com. This year’s Tina Fey-focused spot more than doubles the celebrity count of last year’s ad.
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After teasing out Arnold as Agent State Farm for the last few weeks, State Farm has finally given us a twist ending and it memorably includes being upstaged by his “Twins” co-star Danny DeVito. This is State Farm’s first #SuperBowl spot since 2021.
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Michael Cera for CeraVe is a callback to one of my favorite #SuperBowl spots when Michael Bublé promoted Pepsi’s Bubly “for no other reason than the word Bubly looks like Bublé” back in 2019.
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