Superbowl Fast Food Ads: Overkill
Common Sense Media has carried out a nutritional analysis of each food product promoted during the Superbowl. The totals are:
3325 calories; 178 grams of fat (that's about 270 percent of the FDA's recommended daily intake; 1665 calories from fat; and 6910 mg of sodium (288 percent of the FDA's recommended daily intake).
That's just for one serving of each product advertised. At $2.5 million for a thirty second spot - you would have to conclude that junk food advertising works.
Written By J. Foster
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ReplyI'm sure it does work. I just wrote about the amount of advertising for junk food that appears on tv after dinner, in my blog the other day.
ReplyI don't know of any scientific studies done on it, but it seems to me that during after dinner hours, the commercials for food, triple!
Vern, you don't need a scientific study... those food ads are perfectly targeted to when you're most likely to feel hungry.
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