SuperBowl Ads (Not Really) From Startups

Today’s the day – SuperBowl XLI. Hundreds of millions of people around the world will eat junk food, drink beer, and watch the best television advertising all year interrupted periodically with a football game.

Six startups (Meebo, Meez, Multiply, Plaxo, RockYou and Technorati) who can’t afford the $2.5 million plus for a thirty second spot during the game got together to produce low-budget “SuperBowl” ads and put them on YouTube. Some of them are pretty entertaining. Others, not so much. We’ve embedded all of them below and have a poll to see which one you like the best.

By the way, last year’s real SuperBowl ads are still up on Google Video at video.google.com/superbowl.html. I assume Google will replace those ads with SuperBowl XLI ads tomorrow. Yahoo will also be hosting the actual SuperBowl ads once the games starts at Yahoo Video.

My favorite “startup” ad is Technorati, although they cheated by using footage from one of my favorite movies. Plaxo and Meebo are tied for second place.

The ads and poll are below, in this order: Meebo, Meez, Multiply, Plaxo, RockYou and Technorati:

[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RWDW8nEgi9w]

[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4JILrkan2FI]

[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LPCEzW8K34I]

[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AbSyyXoPXYI]

[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ym6UId6EflA]

[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5oWWe8mzPnE]