Alec Baldwin, Amazon's Alexa Show Off Voice Search In Echo's First Super Bowl Ad

Alexa, the Amazon personal assistant, makes her debut in Echo's first Super Bowl advertisement on Feb. 7, when the Carolina Panthers face off with the Denver Broncos in Santa Clara, California.

Alongside Alexa, the teaser ad features Alec Baldwin and Hall of Fame Dolphins quarterback Dan Marino. The two show off Echo's and Alexa's capabilities at home.

Aside from streaming music from Amazon Prime Music and services like Pandora, Echo can manage shopping lists and answer questions.

Baldwin asks "Alexa, what's a snack stadium?" after Marino suggests that he have a "snack stadium" at his Super Bowl party, to which Alexa answers: "A stadium built entirely of snacks."

Echo responds to voice commands, questions and searches. The hands-free device connects to Alexa, a cloud-based voice service, to provide information, play music, read the news, check sports scores or the weather, among other things.

More than half the content that fans view prior to the Super Bowl centers on playoff contenders, recipes, party ideas, official team content, and sponsored pre-game contests and half-time previews, according to ZEFR, a video ID technology company that claims to have more data on YouTube than any other company outside of Google.

Amazon's teaser lives on YouTube. ZEFR estimates the Super Bowl fan base across YouTube at 66,000 channels, 130,000 videos, 2 billion viewers, and 11 million engagements.

Some liken Amazon's move to Apple's when it tapped Samuel L. Jackson and Zooey Deschanel to explain the value of Siri. Jackson asked Siri to cancel appointments on his calendar to find a nearby store to buy organic mushrooms, but he didn't ask for a definition. That's where Amazon shows off something a little different.

This year's Super Bowl ads will also show off newcomers such as PayPal, SunTrust Banks, Buick, LG and Pokemon. These newcomers will join Anheuser Busch InBev; Nestle Butterfinger; BMW Mini; Colgate; Intuit; Honda; Hyundai; Acura; Mars Skittles and Snickers; PepsiCo Mountain Dew and Doritos; TurboTax; and WeatherTech, according to Variety.

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  1. Mark Laurence from Greater Media, January 28, 2016 at 10:07 p.m.

    I was watching HuluPlus this morning and the Alec Baldwin Amazon commercial came on. He asked "Alexa, what's a snack stadium," and MY Alexa promptly answered him - with the same answer - from the other room! I wonder how many other Alexa owners will have this experience on Super Bowl Sunday?

    Maybe we should have Alexa talk to Siri and ask something of OK Google.

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