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Budweiser Clydesdales Top Ad Meter Rankings Again — with Help from a Puppy

If you were one of the millions of people who watched Budweiser’s Super Bowl commercial, “Lost Dog” on YouTube (or here on HorseChannel) last week, you won’t be surprised to learn that it has been ranked as the viewer favorite.




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USA Today’s Ad Meter panel ranks the Super Bowl commercials each year, and “Lost Dog” topped the list this year. This ad is a follow up to two other Ad Meter top picks: 2014’s “Puppy Love” and 2013’s “Brotherhood,” which also featured the iconic Clydesdales and actor Don Jeanes as their trainer. The addition of an adorable puppy in 2014 made the commercials irresistible, so the canine component was included again in 2015.

“If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it,” said Budweiser Vice President Brian Perkins.

Viewers chose sentiment over humor for the second-place ad as well. The Always “Like a Girl” commercial plays more like a public service announcement, showing that while young boys and grown men and women have learned to use the phrase “like a girl” as a derogatory term, young girls see it as a positive. What is it that changes girls’ opinions of themselves and their gender as they grow up? From Always:

Using #LikeAGirl as an insult is a hard knock against any adolescent girl. And since the rest of puberty’s really no picnic either, it’s easy to see what a huge impact it can have on a girl’s self-confidence.

 

We’re kicking off an epic battle to make sure that girls everywhere keep their confidence throughout puberty and beyond, and making a start by showing them that doing it #LikeAGirl is an awesome thing.

In other words, this positive campaign aims to spread the message that equestrians have known for years.

 

The third-ranked spot was, in this blogger’s opinion, a rather mundane Fiat commercial.

Which Super Bowl ad was your second favorite this year? Share it in the comments.

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Leslie Potter is Sr. Associate Web Editor of HorseChannel.com. Follow her on Twitter: @LeslieInLex.

 

Leslie Potter

Leslie Potter is a graduate of William Woods University where she earned a Bachelor of Science in Equestrian Science with a concentration in saddle seat riding and a minor in Journalism/Mass Communications. She is currently a writer and photographer in Lexington, Ky.Potter worked as a barn manager and riding instructor and was a freelance reporter and photographer for the Horsemen's Yankee Pedlar and Saddle Horse Report before moving to Lexington to join Horse Illustrated as Web Editor from 2008 to 2019. Her current equestrian pursuits include being a grown-up lesson kid at an eventing barn and trail riding with her senior Morgan gelding, Snoopy.

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