50% Of Super Bowl Ads Worked Twitter Into Their Commercials [THE BRIEF]
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According to Marketing Land, 26 of the 52 national Super Bowl ads mentioned Twitter in their spots. Considering that the Super Bowl generated 24 million tweets, that's a smart bandwagon to jump on. YouTube and Instagram each got a shout out, and Facebook was mentioned four times. Nothing for Google+, though.
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