This Year's Super Bowl Ads Play It Safe

3:14pm February 08, 2016

Heinz's commercial for Super Bowl 50. (Heinz Ketchup/YouTube)

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This year’s Super Bowl ads relied heavily on humor, animals and celebrities with very little risk taking. From overprotective fathers to PuppyMonkeyBaby, Here & Now‘s Robin Young takes a look at this year’s offerings with our media analyst John Carroll.

More on the top Super Bowl ads via USA Today

Ads Mentioned In The Segment

Hyundai

Snickers

Budweiser

Mountain Dew

Doritos

Guest

John Carroll, professor of mass communications at Boston University. He tweets @johncarroll_bu.

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