🏈 Super Bowl LIX: Rick and Rick Rate the Advertising Hits & Misses

🏈 It’s time for an Ad Bowl 2025 edition of Rick and Rick Loaded Questions—our multiple-choice quiz games to test your recall of this year’s Super Bowl commercials, and a look at some of the big themes we saw in this year’s big game!

 

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Rick and Rick Rule the World Marketing Podcast · 🏈 Super Bowl Pop Quiz: Test Your 2025 Ad Recall

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🤓 2024 Predictions Scorecard: Impact of GenAI in Marketing, Paid Social vs. Search, Shoppable Streaming

It’s time for our annual predictions scorecard episode, as the Ricks review their prognostications about trends in marketing, media, tech, and pop culture—the bullseyes, botched calls, and more.

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Rick and Rick Rule the World Marketing Podcast · 🤓 2024 Predictions Scorecard: Impact of GenAI in Marketing, Social vs. Search, Shoppable Streaming

IN THIS EPISODE:

😬 The GenAI nightmare that wasn’t (at 01:32)
😅 Sighs of relieve over SEO fundamentals (at 03:02)
😎 Shifting from paid search to paid social: big changes, new rules (03:42)
🛍️ Social commerce: Win, lose, or draw? (05:10)
💩 The poop on Phillips Laxative…and Taco Bell (08:00)
🛒 Shoppable streaming’s new converts (09:04)
🕺🏻 Social media: declines here, resurgence there (10:39)
👨🏽‍💻 Domain-Specific Language Models: Ahead of the curve? (13:24)
📺 The year video streaming became profitable (14:43)
🤖 Machine customers in the age of agentic AI (18:10)
🌭 Whither Neuralink Sausages & Franks? (19:50)
🦾 ChatGPT: Building a better candidate? (21:19)
🎲 A rebrand for OpenAI? (22:02)
🐯 Was “Cheetle” really 2024’s Word of the Year? (22:50)
📣 Outdoor advertising for outdoor advertisers (24:24)
🎨 Pantone’s 2025 Color of the Year (25:55)

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🛍️ Hottest But Hardest-to-Get Tech Toys of Holiday 2024

🎅🏻 Time to deck the halls and get your tinsel in a tangle, because the Ricks are here with their official list of the hottest but hardest-to-get tech toys of Holiday 2024!

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Rick and Rick Rule the World Marketing Podcast · 🛍️ Hottest But Hardest-to-Get Tech Toys for Holiday 2024

IN THIS EPISODE

🎁 Just like Spotify’s Wrapped, if Wrapped was any good
🍑 Tongue-in-cheeks fun for the whole family
✈️ Your ticket out of a state of despair
🧪 The last science kit you’ll ever give
🛞 Revealed: The Pink Panther, er, Jaguar EV

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🎅🏻 (Un)Real Thing? The Fallout Over Coca-Cola’s AI Holiday Campaign

🎄 Are those chatbots roasting on an open fire? Coca-Cola spreads holiday joy by kicking Santa to the curb using AI. Amazon Prime’s effort to bore subscribers to death with spoiler-free, AI-generated episode recaps. Plus a “Wicked” packaging face plant. From November 23. 

Rick and Rick Rule the World Marketing Podcast · 🎅🏻 (Un)Real Thing? The Fallout Over Coca-Cola’s AI Holiday Campaign

IN THIS EPISODE:

🥤 Ho-ho-ho, or oh-hell-no? The backlash over the Real Thing’s holiday ad campaign (00:30)
📺 Amazon Prime promos yawn-inducing episode recaps generated by AI (03:25)
🧸 Toys tied to Universal’s latest movie release come with a “Wicked” surprise (at 05:28)

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🎬 Why Social Video Rules B2B, AI Headshots, Lays’ & Cokes’ Funtastic Flavors

❄️The big “oops” at Bath & Bodyworks. Lays brings back five funtastic flavors. The Ricks have fun with AI headshots and AI Snapchat filters. Why short-form social video is the most effective tool for B2B high-tech marketers. Election 2024’s staggering digital ad spend. Loaded questions and more. From November 3. 

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Rick and Rick Rule the World Marketing Podcast · 🎬 Why Social Video Rules B2B, AI Head Shots, Lays’ & Cokes’ Funtastic Flavors

IN THIS EPISODE:
😎 Rick W’s big week with AI LinkedIn headshots (at 01:23)
🤖 Rick M cracks himself up with AI Snapchat filters (02:41)
😱 Rick W one-ups that with blue hair and tattoos (03:12)
🙏 F*cks Given: Nun? Is there a future for Netflix’s smash hit Warrior Nun? (03:50)
🥶 Snowflakes-cum-design fail: The “Clandles” at Bath & Bodyworks (06:00)
🎬 Bite-size brilliance: the power of short-form social videos in B2B high-tech marketing (07:48)
😋 Mountain Dew-flavored Lays & Oreo Coke Zero: a specialty flavor flare-up—or out? (10:30)
🤪 Heinz à Deux? Ketchup brand’s “Ha-Ha-Ha” leaves the Ricks asking, “W-T-F?” (15:23)
🧢 Hi-Chew has a bizarre new mascot…and the Ricks have questions (16:43)
📈 Doing the numbers on Election 2024’s staggering digital ad spend (18:14)

Plus: some fun with AI images of the Ricks: 

Rick W. is feeling blue (and bulked)

Rick M. paints it black

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