The real winner among Super Bowl ads? Twitter.

Super Bowl Sunday was a big night for Twitter, as it received more commercials mentions than any other social media site. Twitter also received a high volume of tweets from people following the game and commercial breaks, generating 24.1 million tweets.

By Steph Solis / February 4, 2013

This screenshot captures the last seconds of the "Prom" commercial by Audi, where a teenage boy borrows his father's car and whimsically kisses an attractive classmate. The ad featured the hashtag #BraveryWins.

Audi/YouTube

Enlarge

Between the commercial breaks and Beyonce?s halftime show, Super Bowl XLVII was a record-breaking night for Twitter.

Skip to next paragraph

' + google_ads[0].line2 + '
' + google_ads[0].line3 + '

'; } else if (google_ads.length > 1) { ad_unit += ''; } } document.getElementById("ad_unit").innerHTML += ad_unit; google_adnum += google_ads.length; return; } var google_adnum = 0; google_ad_client = "pub-6743622525202572"; google_ad_output = 'js'; google_max_num_ads = '1'; google_feedback = "on"; google_ad_type = "text"; google_adtest = "on"; google_image_size = '230x105'; google_skip = '0'; // -->

Subscribe Today to the Monitor

Click Here for your FREE 30 DAYS of
The Christian Science Monitor
Weekly Digital Edition

Matt McGee of Marketing Land writes that Twitter came out on top among social media sites for most mentions during commercials (hat tip to CNET). He counted Twitter being mentioned in 26 of 52 national TV commercials, compared to four mentions for Facebook, one each for YouTube and Instagram, and none for Google+.

?This is a huge change from last year?s Super Bowl, when Twitter and Facebook both tied with only eight mentions out of a total of 59 counted national commercials,? Mr. McGee writes. ?So, for Twitter, the change from eight mentions to 26 is a gain of more than 300 percent while Facebook saw a 50 percent drop in mentions.?

Those ads marketed to Twitter users with a hashtag or logo, including Audi's "Prom" commercial (#braverywins), Wonderful Pistachios' "Get Crackin'" commercial featuring Korean sensation PSY (#crackinstyle), and Tide?s "Miracle Stain" spoof about 49ers icon Joe Montana (#miraclestain).

Facebook received mentions from ads for the Fast & Furious 6, the Hundai Sonata, Taco Bell, and Mercedes-Benz.

McGee explains he started counting after the kickoff until the clock reached 0:00, and he only counted nationally sold commercials ? none that were sold and aired by the local affiliate stations because they would be different in each market.

The tally also excludes NFL and CBS ads, as well as the announcers? shout outs to game sponsors, McGee writes. Iron Man's voiceover, which flashed a Facebook URL on screen, in the third quarter was not counted, nor were Pepsi and Samsung's hashtags during the game.

Twitter?s dominance in social media marketing is more apparent than ever, according to McGee:??This year, brands recognize that Twitter is where they need to try to attract the online conversation around one of the biggest events.?

Source: http://rss.csmonitor.com/~r/feeds/csm/~3/Nhi19wXYrjU/The-real-winner-among-Super-Bowl-ads-Twitter

Jessica Ennis Oscar Pistorius Aliya Mustafina Kirk Urso London 2012 Javelin roger federer Olga Korbut