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Boost Mobile, Home Away, E*Trade & Google Score Integrated Marketing Touchdowns During the Super Bowl

Reprise Media's Search Marketing Scorecard ranks Super Bowl advertisers based on the level of integration between their television commercials and presence in search and social media –measuring how prepared each brand was to capture the demand created by their Super Bowl advertising investment. The Search Marketing Scorecard is the longest-running study of its kind.

Although the average cost of a 30-second spot was reported to have dropped from $3 million to $2.5, advertisers were still pressed to make every dollar spent on television work harder by successfully linking their TV ads to their online presence.

"Every year, we see advertisers take a significant step forward in the way that they use search and social media to help channel Super Bowl buzz," said Anthony Iaffaldano, Senior Director of Strategy and Innovation at Reprise Media. "This year was no different. Brands were under pressure to deliver measurable ROI from Super Bowl spots, and did so with innovative and aggressive cross-channel tactics."

The advertising game-within-a-game produced many interesting storylines worth a second look today:

• Touchdowns - First time Bowl advertisers Boost Mobile and Home Away finished neck and neck for best overall integration, with a solid cross-channel commercial promoting two of the more memorable Super Bowl ads from this year. E*Trade followed up last year's overall win with another solid showing. And, suprising virtually no one, Google - a late entrant into the game - dazzled with a deftly-executed campaign.

• Fumbles - Among the more notable brands to mess up the handoff to the online channel were Pop Secret/Emerald Nuts, Prudential and Dodge Charger. In a continuation of a trend from the past few years, virtually every movie advertised during the Super Bowl scored a fumble - only the Wolfman & Shutter Island escaped the dubious demarcation.

• Interceptions - While tax prep software Turbo Tax, automaker Mazda and beverage company Pepsi didn't have ads in the big game, they both captured demand during the game by running paid search ads on keywords related to other Super Bowl advertisers.
• Fanfare - Millions of consumers turned to social networks including Twitter to discuss their favorite ads. According to social media monitoring service Trendrr, the four top gaining Super Bowl ad brands on Twitter within the last 24 hours were Dockers (+307%), Boost Mobile (+161%), Emerald Nuts (+150) and Disney's Alice in Wonderland (+120%).

"Surprisingly, social media took a back seat from an integration standpoint," said Iaffaldano. "Although brands had presence in YouTube, Facebook and Twitter, few made a real effort to drive interested consumers to those pages. Notable exceptions were Super Bowl veteran Coke - who used paid search to drive to their branded YouTube channel - eTrade - who also had Facebook and YouTube icons at the end of their ads - and Google who drove users to their branded YouTube channel."

To download a copy of Reprise Media's 2010 Search Marketing Scorecard on the Super Bowl, which contains a full ranking of this year's advertisers and stats on advertiser performance, visit http://www.reprisemedia.com/scorecard.aspx

The release of the Search Marketing Scorecard will be followed on February 19th by an in-depth webinar and white paper. To reserve your seat at this year's webinar, visit http://bit.ly/scorecard10

About Reprise Media

Reprise Media (www.reprisemedia.com) is a leading global search and social marketing agency. The company helps the world's most recognizable brands - including Microsoft, The Home Depot, and Hyundai, - manage their online reputations, drive traffic to their websites, acquire new customers and generate revenue through search engines and social networks. Headquartered in New York, the company has offices in San Francisco, Atlanta, Boston, London, Paris, Frankfurt, Madrid and Sydney.

Reprise Media is a registered trademark of Reprise Media Inc. All other product and brand names are the property of their respective owners.

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Anthony Iaffaldano, 212-444-7477
anthony@reprisemedia.com