TiVo: Everyone Liked E*Trade's Ads (ETFC)

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Last night reeling E*Trade went ahead and dropped more than $4 million of its turnaround budget on two 30-second Super Bowl ads. A risky call, given the circumstances, but the TiVo nation, at least, was impressed. Data released by the DVR company shows users spent a good bit of Sunday night watching E*Trade's spokesbaby barf on his keyboard, again, and again, and again.

It's the second year TiVo has released its most-watched ad stats, culled from an anonymous sample of 10,000 TiVo users: and it showed the ad certainly amused some people. Of course, we have no idea whether it conveyed any lasting or helpful brand impressions. AdAge's Bob Garfield also gave E*Trade high marks, but the ad didn't rate among USA Today's panel of 234 volunteers wired with "ad meters" to gage their response -- the ad didn't make their top ten.

The Super Bowl's most-viewed ads according to TiVo:
E-Trade: "Baby" (spitting up)
Pepsi Co: "Justin Timberlake"
Doritos: "Mouse Trap" (user-generated)
Coca Cola: "James Carville and Bill Frist"
Ice Breakers: "Carmen Electra"

Earlier: E*Trade's Turnaround Plan: Two Super Bowl Ads
E*Trade: Better Disclosure, Needs More Cash
E*Trade Bounces Off Bottom. Buyout Imminent?


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Carla said:
This was one of my favorite ads this year, although I liked the E-trade Banking baby (with the clown in the background) better! I think the company was going for E-trade = Easy. Catching and the baby was cute.
Brian said:
Sure, the baby ads were funny - but who remembers that they were actually for E*Trade? Fail.

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