[wiradikusuma]

at least $233,000 per second..

I'm not familiar with American culture, but are the following true?

1. More than half Americans watch it.

2. People don't go to toilet during breaks/ad time.

Otherwise it's just money flushed down the bowl..

[rkomorn]

Super Bowl ads, in particular, really are their own thing. People will even watch them later, discuss, share, etc.

There are some people who have more interest in the Super Bowl for the ads than the sport.

So I'd say it's not money flushed down the bowl.

Random fun fact: 20ish years ago, I used to work at a web hosting company that had superbowlads.com (iirc) as a customer. I'm not surprised it's no longer an actual site, though: I speculatively doubt NFL lawyers would've left it alone.

[alphawhisky]

More than half is a stretch, about half sounds more right.