Snickers and Budweiser Most Successful At Driving Internet Traffic on Day Following Super Bowl XLI

Internet-based only businesses have long experimented with Super Bowl advertising to varying degrees of success. In 2007, Salesgenie.com and GoDaddy.com were the dot-com advertisers that showed the largest increases in market share of visits on February 5, 2007 versus January 29, 2007, at 156 percent and 75 percent respectively.

Americans also went online to watch the ads, as increased traffic levels were seen on the Monday following the game at websites that hosted the Super Bowl commercials. While the market share of visits to YouTube was only up 12 percent on February 5, 2007 versus January 29, 2007, it was the 12th most visited Internet domain in the US overall. iFilm and AOL Sports showed market share increases of 328 percent and 158 percent respectively for the same period.



"Ads that create buzz and are worthy of multiple viewings will drive more value into the Super Bowl advertising investment," said LeeAnn Prescott, research director at Hitwise. "Food and Beverage manufacturers are embracing the web to a greater degree and should fully integrate Internet marketing into offline advertising efforts in order to maximize value."



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rade                    www.etrade.com               0.01062     0.03106 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Go Daddy                    www.godaddy.com          0.01257     0.01437 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Coca-Cola               mycokerwards.com          0.01368     0.01253 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- PNC                         www.pnc.com               0.008954     0.0104 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Toyota                    www.toyota.com               0.01088     0.009522 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- General Motors          www.chevrolet.com          0.008816     0.007862 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Honda Motor Co.          automobiles.honda.com     0.006188     0.005259 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Prudential               www.prudential.com     0.002462     0.002892 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Nationwide Insurance     www.nationwide.com     0.002599     0.002537 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- General Motors          www.gm.com               0.002248     0.002262 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Garmin                    www.garmin.com          0.002188     0.001767 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Anheuser-Busch          www.budweiser.com     0.0007565     0.001738 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Anheuser-Busch          www.bud.tv               0.0009953     0.001166 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- infoUSA (Salesgenie.com)     www.salesgenie.com     0.0009718     0.001067 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- King Pharmaceuticals     www.beatyourrisk.com     0.001177     0.001011 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Mars (Snickers)          www.snickers.com          0.0009665 0.0009411 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Coca-Cola               www.coca-cola.com     0.0007537 0.0008967 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Anheuser-Busch          www.budlight.com          0.0002871 0.0007914 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Taco Bell               www.tacobell.com          0.001138 0.0007541 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Frito-Lay               www.frito-lay.com          0.000663 0.0006796 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Phillips-Van Heusen/IZOD               www.pvh.com               0.0005256 0.0003799 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Revlon (Colorist)     www.revlon.com          0.0001941 0.0003618 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Frito-Lay (Doritos)     www.doritos.com          0.0003106 0.0002319 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Boehringer Ingelheim (Flomax)               www.4flomax.com          0.00009007 0.0001422 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Snapple                    www.snapple.com          0.0001297 0.0001253 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Diamond Emerald Nuts     www.emeraldnuts.com     0.0003068 0.00006594 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- PepsiCo (Sierra Mist) www.sierramist.com     0.00006032 0.00004667 ----------------------------------------------------------------------

                                                  Percent Change Percent Change Feb 5 vs     Feb 5 vs Advertiser          Website                    Feb 4          Jan 29 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Career Builder     www.careerbuilder.com          38.33%          3.07% ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Blockbuster          www.blockbuster.com          15.08%          5.86% ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Sprint               www.sprint.com                    8.54%          -3.14% ---------------------------------------------------------------------- T-mobile          www.t-mobile.com               -5.63%          1.72% ---------------------------------------------------------------------- FedEx               www.fedex.com                    142.94%          0.14% ---------------------------------------------------------------------- HP                    www.hp.com                    -13.31%          -4.67% ---------------------------------------------------------------------- E

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