Laurie Burkitt and I have put together a nifty Super Bowl ad viewer for Forbes. You can embed this viewer (for free!) in an article or blog post to display this year’s Super Bowl ads alongside your own content. No need to go through the colossal hassle of finding, compiling, and encoding the ads. We’ve done it for you because we at Forbes love you.
Here’s how it works: copy and paste the code below into the HTML of your web site wherever you want it to appear. Because we’re bound by an embargo and are not allowed to release this year’s ads until the end of this year’s Super Bowl game, the viewer will contain ads from last year at first. Embed it anyway. In an unprecedented feat of Internet magic, the viewer that you put in your own blog will automatically replenish itself with fresh, fresh 2010 ads after the big game on February 7. Again, we make it easy for you.
When we switch in the new ads on the 7th, we’ll also remotely activate a voting feature in the viewer that will let readers pick the best and worst ads. Expect to generate some good discussion in your comments section.
You must have Adobe Flash Player 9 or higher installed to view this content
Click here to get Flash Player.
And here’s the code:
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://images.forbes.com/scripts/swfobject.js">
</script>
<script type="text/javascript">
swfobject.embedSWF("http://images.forbes.com/jb/superbowl/viewer.swf",
"myAlternativeContent", "568", "600", "9.0.0", "expressInstall.swf", {},
{allowscriptaccess:"always", allownetworking:"external"},{});</script>
<div id="myAlternativeContent">You must have Adobe Flash Player 9
or higher installed to view this content
<a href="http://www.adobe.com/go/getflashplayer" target="_top">
<img border="0" alt="Get Adobe Flash player" align="left"
src="http://www.adobe.com/images/shared/download_buttons/get_flash_player.gif"/>
</a></div>
Visit Forbes.com for more details on our embeddable Super Bowl ad viewer.