Here's the latest on what's happening with ads during the Super Bowl. 9:30 p.m.Another Super Bowl, another head-scratching ad about beer and agriculture. Last year, it was Bud Light insulting U.S. corn farmers when it made fun of rival brands that use corn syrup in their beers. One of those 2019 ads showed a medieval caravan schlepping a huge barrel of corn syrup to castles owned by Miller and Coors and then boasted that Bud Light doesn’t use the ingredient. Among the many skeptics who started doing the math after watching that ad was Julie Kenney, Iowa’s deputy secretary of agriculture.

Source: New York Times February 03, 2020 01:02 UTC