Skittles Super Bowl commercial – shock value, humor and absurd
The actual Skittles Super Bowl campaign was based on Schwimmer’s four ads created by the DDB Chicago agency. As the actor pointed out, all of them were odd, quirky and in line with Skittles videos. The candy is known in the industry to use marketing techniques based on striking imagery, unusual situations and weird characters. The strategy helps them stand out and has been consistent throughout the years.
David Schwimmer's four ads are typical Skittles ads – full of absurdity and strangeness. Schwimmer plays four characters who look like a nerdy teacher feeding Skittles to a talking sandwich, floating through space holding a bag of Skittles, being possessed by some alien force in synthwave setup, or as a shrunk person being in fact a puppet sitting on a lap of ventriloquist’s puppet.