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Creative Bloq
Creative Bloq
Technology
Tom May

Can the 2026 FIFA World Cup become the global Super Bowl of advertising?

Actor Will Ferrell sits enthusiastically on a yellow sofa holding a bag of Lay's potato chips, flanked by two friends cheering and surrounded by bowls of chips, during a soccer-themed gathering.

It's a little weird if you think about it. When it comes to sports lovers, the Super Bowl only really matters to North Americans. But when it comes to the mid-game advertising, it suddenly becomes a global event.

Each February, creative departments around the world pour their best ideas into ad slots that cost millions of dollars, and the world sits up and pay attention. The best Super Bowl ads are increasingly reviewed, ranked and dissected as if they were movies. It's basically become the Olympics of advertising.

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