GoDaddy Not Advertising in 2019 Super Bowl

GoDaddy has been an off and on Super Bowl advertiser for many years. Some might attribute a great deal of the company’s early growth and success to its prominent and controversial Super Bowl commercials. For many years, GoDaddy commercials were a fixture during the Super Bowl, but the company took a break several years ago, and they have been advertising sporadically since then.

GoDaddy had a Super Bowl commercial in 2017, passed on advertising in 2018, and will not be a Super Bowl advertiser once again in 2019, I have confirmed with a company representative.

As a domain investor, I always enjoyed seeing GoDaddy advertise in the Super Bowl, even if the commercials made me cringe. People often relate what I do as a domain investor to what GoDaddy does, and I am pretty sure the Super Bowl advertising campaigns helped bring more prominence to domain names and the business of domain name investing.

GoDaddy has changed quite a bit over the past several years. The company is now publicly traded and accountable to shareholders. Since the early Super Bowl advertising days, there is new ownership and new management at the company. The company has effectively “grown up.” GoDaddy still does a ton of advertising and event sponsorships, but there will be no Super Bowl ad during the New England Patriots game (against the Rams, this year) on Sunday.

Elliot Silver
Elliot Silver
About The Author: Elliot Silver is an Internet entrepreneur and publisher of DomainInvesting.com. Elliot is also the founder and President of Top Notch Domains, LLC, a company that has closed eight figures in deals. Please read the DomainInvesting.com Terms of Use page for additional information about the publisher, website comment policy, disclosures, and conflicts of interest. Reach out to Elliot: Twitter | Facebook | LinkedIn

4 COMMENTS

  1. They already spend enough money, the last time they did it, was probably rated one of the worst ads ever, total waste of life.

    Save the money for portfolio buys godaddy.

  2. Those ads were more aimed to investors than customers. But nothing beats the power of Super Bowl ads to make your brand a household name even if they don’t know what you do. That’s why the name has more power than competitors on for sale landing pages.

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