How Much Super Bowl Trailer Spots Cost (And Why They're So Much)
It's very expensive to book a spot for a movie trailer during the Super Bowl, and here's why. The Super Bowl is the NFL's annual showcase event, as — in theory — its two best teams face off to see who will become the league's top champion. It's been a TV institution since the 1960s, and as the decades have gone by, has become a bigger and bigger occasion. Somewhere along the way, the Super Bowl ended up transcending sports as well, with many sitting down to watch the game that don't normally follow football.
One of the biggest draws of the Super Bowl, especially for those not big into sports, is the general pop culture pageantry surrounding the event. This includes the halftime show, which normally features A-list musical acts performing live, and of course the commercials. Super Bowl commercials have become both famous and infamous, sometimes both at once. These commercials most notably also often include trailer spots for Hollywood's biggest blockbuster releases of the year to come.
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The occasional TV show also often gets a big Super Bowl ad push, but more often, it's the big screen that gets the focus when it comes to commercials for entertainment products. This year will be no different, with trailers for movies like Sonic the Hedgehog 2, Jurassic World: Dominion, and Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness all likely to get some time in the glow of theSuper Bowl spotlight. As for the price, in 2022, a 30-second movie trailer spot during the Super Bowl costs studios a cool $6.5 million, a rise from last year's $5.5 million for the same amount of time. Still, if things go right, that money will end up well spent.
While $6.5 million is certainly a
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