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Super Bowl LVI: Coinbase dubbed best ad, Dave McCormick's 'Let's Go Brandon' a close 2nd

The brilliant commercial led so many viewers to the Coinbase site that their app crashed within seconds

If the game and halftime show make up half the hype around the Super Bowl, it might not be an exaggeration to say Super Bowl ads contribute the rest of the hype. Super Bowl LVI definitely delivered in the commercial department, as fans cherry-picked their favorite ones on social media.

While Larry David, Seth Rogen, Paul Rudd, Jim Carrey, and Zendaya received special shoutouts for their Super Bowl commercials, it was Coinbase's QR Code that took home the best ad award. In fact, the brilliant commercial led so many viewers to the Coinbase server that their app crashed with error messages popping up. Senate candidate Dave McCormick's Let's Go Brandon commercial also earned many fans among GOP supporters and Conservatives, making it a close second for Super Bowl LVI's fan-favorite ad. 

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Leading cryptocurrency exchange platform Coinbase revolutionized the concept of commercials by keeping theirs as simple as it could be. Midway through the game, viewers spotted their TV screen turning black, with a QR code floating around like a screensaver. Curious, millions of viewers scanned the code on their phones that immediately redirected them to the Coinbase app. An electronic tune played in the background throughout the entire duration of the ad, at the end of which, a brilliant blue screen appeared before the viewers, revealing the Coinbase website. 

Bitcoin investor A Pompliano tweeted, "Coinbase ad was genius. Unfortunately the website and app crashed under the traffic shortly after the ad ran."

"Coinbase wins the best Ad of the Super Bowl!!!" tweeted Keemster, while one user shared, "Coinbase’s Super Bowl ad got my 82 year old grandpa to pull up Coinbase on his phone."

Former Playboy model and Hugh Hefner's widow Crystal Harris tweeted, "Wow @coinbase just KILLED that Super Bowl ad. LOVE it 😍 Who else was chasing it around the screen with their phone? lol #Crypto #nft."

Dallas Cowboys' Dalton Schultz also lauded Coinbase, tweeting, "Wait that Coinbase ad was GENIUS."

Meanwhile, US Senate candidate Dave McCormick aired an advertisement titled 'Let's go Brandon', one of the infamous catchphrases used to mock President Joe Biden. The ad criticized the Biden admin's perceived failure on issues like the Afghanistan crisis to the economic slowdown during the Covid pandemic.

Somber quotes from mainstream media outlets fly through the screen in the 30-second spot, while a mob screams "Let's Go Brandon". The commercial concludes, "This is so much bigger than Brandon."

McCormick, 56, is one of the dozens of Republicans vying in Pennsylvania to succeed retiring Republican Senator Pat Toomey. From 2020 to January of this year, he was the CEO of Bridgewater Associates, the world's largest hedge fund with assets of at least $150 billion.