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> Think about all the crypto ads shown during the last Super Bowl. Think of all the people who watched those ads and decided to try out crypto speculation. Some

by nkrisc 4y ago

> Think about all the crypto ads shown during the last Super Bowl. Think of all the people who watched those ads and decided to try out crypto speculation. Some percentage of those people were bag holders here. Obviously I’m just completely out of the loop. I’ve never seen ads for crypto so that’s probably why it seems so surprising to me.

lizknope 4y ago
Just google "super bowl crypto ads" and you can find lots of articles including the ads. They had big Hollywood celebrities like Matt Damon and Larry David. They were very well produced like most Super Bowl commercials. The Super Bowl takes 30 of the top 32 most watched broadcasts ever so literally millions of people saw these ads at the same time. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_most_watched_television_broadcasts_in_the_United_States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_most_watched_televisio...
- SilasX 4y ago
  Well-produced with the exception of the Coinbase one that was a bouncing QR code that took you to an overloaded sever.
  - lupire 4y ago
    Which they plagiarized from an ad agency.
brendoelfrendo 4y ago
The Staples Center in LA was renamed to the "Crypto.com Arena" last year. Matt Damon appeared in a Crypto.com ad last October that called crypto "brave" (which is funnier in hindsight as brave and foolish are often so closely linked). During the Super Bowl, Larry David and LeBron James were both in ads for crypto companies. They got all of these celebrities to shill for them using VC funding and the gains from their early adopters to fuel what must be massive marketing budgets. "Crypto" is a known concept now, even if an understanding of crypto isn't.