Super Bowl XLVII ads to watch for: Football just fills time between commercials featuring Kate Upton, the E*Trade Baby and a nerd-kissing Bar Refaeli

Forget the game, Commercials from VW, Anheiser Busch and Coca Cola score early touchdown

BY DON KAPLAN / NEW YORK DAILY NEWS

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 2013, 4:29 PM

                                Whether you're a Ravens or a 49ers fan, you'll be able to appreciate 
                                Kate Upton in her new Mercedes commercial.

          Without a horse in the race for Sunday night's big game, New Yorkers may pay more attention to the Super ads.

Here are ten we think are worth watching for:

1. Anheiser Busch bought a whopping four and a half minutes of airtime at $3.8 million per 30 seconds, including the first commercial of the game which features its new, more alcoholic beer, Black Crown.
2. Audi is offering a 60-second spot about a boy who “embarks on one of the most pivotal moments of his adolescence: prom night.”
3. Axe’s first Super Bowl ad will point viewers to a web site where they can enter to win a trip into outer space — after they watch a lifeguard wearing an astronaut suit fight off a shark and protect a smokin’ hot girl in a bikini. What’s not to like?
4. Coke ditches its polar bears this year, replacing them with a wild race through the desert where the prize is a giant bottle of cola. Viewers can log onto cokechase.com to vote on who should win the race, essentially picking the last spot to air.
5. Doritos has asked fans for the seventh year in a row to create their own Super Bowl ad in its “Crash the Super Bowl” contest. The winner, still to be determined, will get a chance to work with Michael Bay on the next “Transformers” movie.
6. E*Trade is back with its wisecracking baby, because, uh, who doesn’t love a talking baby?
7. VW, which stole the show in 2011 with its Darth-Vader-themed commercial, is offering a spot this year that features recent YouTube sensations, who all garnered clicks for their online meltdowns. In the ad, the once-angry or sad YouTube folks are happy and dance around — because of a Volkswagen.
8. Go Daddy serves up comedy from supermodel Bar Refaeli and NASCAR star Danica Patrick. Vrooom!
9. Kia goes for the weird with an ad called “Space Babies,” described by the company as “an epic tale” that reveals the existence of a faraway planet known as “Babylandia” and follows infant boys, girls, dogs, pandas and more on their journey to Earth to join their new families.
10. Swimsuit model Kate Upton helps Mercedes sell its new luxury compact for just $29,000.
    
    
    
    
    Reported by Sirada R. 
    Source:  http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/tv-movies/super-bowl-xlvii-ads-watch-article-1.1253397