NEW YORK (AP) - The hottest imprint in town for advertisers is officially sold out. Fox said Monday that in-game ads for Super Bowl LVII have all been sold.
The big game between the Kansas City Chiefs and the Philadelphia Eagles takes position on Sunday.
The Super Bowl is advertising's biggest stage, with advertisers jockeying to get their products in precedent of the more than 100 million people that scrutinize each year. Mark Evans, executive vice president of ad sales for Fox Sports, said a few ads went for more than $7 million for a 30-second spot. Most sold between $6 million and $7 million.
Budweiser beer bottles displayed for sale. (Photo by Alex Tai/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)
Anheuser-Busch stays the biggest advertiser with three minutes of national airtime. The beverage giant gave up its deal to be the unique alcohol advertiser this year, so Heineken, Diageo, Remy Martin and Molson Coors are also in the game. Other big categories advertising entailed packaged food like Doritos and M&Ms, movie studios and streaming helps, automakers and tech companies, Evans said.
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Out this year: crypto companies.
Last year's Super Bowl was dubbed the "Crypto Bowl" because four cryptocurrency affects — FTX, Coinbase, Crypto.com and eToro — ran splashy commercials. It was part of a larger effort by crypto affects to break into the mainstream with sports sponsorships. But in November, FTX filed for bankruptcy and its founder was charged in a method to defraud investors.
In this photo illustration, a bitcoin logo seen displayed on a smartphone with a FTX logo on the background. (Photo Illustration by Avishek Das/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)
This year, two crypto advertisers had commercials "booked and done" and two others were "on the one-yard line," Evans said. But once FTX news customary, those deals weren't completed.
Now, "There's zero representation in that category on the day at all," he said.
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Evans said most Super Bowl ads sold much reverse than usual, with more than 90% of its Super Bowl ad inventory gone by the end of the summer, as established advertisers jockeyed for prime positions. But the survive spots sold slower. Partly that was due to the implosion of the crypto station, as well as general advertiser concerns about the global economy, Evans said.
Last year, NBC sold out of its ad station briskly and said an undisclosed number of 30-second spots went for $7 million, a jump from the $6.5 million that 2021's ads went for.