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Motorola Xoom Super Bowl Commercial

Motorola Xoom Super Bowl Commercial - Motorola released a teaser for its Xoom tablet Super Bowl ad on YouTube today. This one-minute ad teaser is an attack on the iPad and Apple’s famous 1984 Superbowl ad. The Motorola Xoom ad starts off with a shot of earth from space and a countdown from 2011 to 1984. Some text that reads “One way to work…It’s time for more choices,” flashes on the screen before a bunch of speeds and feeds are thrown up on the screen.

A full 58 seconds go by before the product is even mentioned…in small text in the corner of the closing slide.

The Xoom is one of the best tablets we saw at CES 2011, but this ad is pretty bad in my opinion. Instead of showing off their own tablet, or even mentioning that they’re advertising a tablet, Motorola is speaking geek. Few, if any, everyday consumers will understand what the heck Motorola is advertising and the commercial isn’t memorable enough. There’s also no call for action anywhere in the ad. The average consumer will probably simply ignore what they assume to be a PHONE ad.

Motorola Xoom Super Bowl Commercial

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