Companies facing negative reviews on Sunday nightbut still lots of chatter about their adsincluded Nationwide Insurance, T-Mobile and GoDaddy.
Nationwide’s ad showed a boy speaking about the life he would have lived, had he not been killed in an accident.
“I’ll never learn how to ride a bike. Or get cooties!” the character said.
“That Nationwide ad just knocked me off my chair,” CNNMoney’s Frank Pallotta tweeted.
As criticism mounted on Sunday night, Nationwide felt compelled to issue a statement: “The sole purpose of this message was to start a conversation, not sell insurance.”
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