--- title: Super Bowl 2015: GoDaddy Ad Mocks Budweiser Puppy Commercial description: GoDaddy's latest commercial has some people laughing — and others so angry they're demanding it be removed canonical: https://time.com/3684829/super-bowl-go-daddy-puppy-ad/ author: Samantha Grossman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-01-27T21:15:25.000Z article:modified_time: 2023-12-13T18:56:57.000Z og:title: Here's Another Super Bowl Ad Featuring a Puppy, But With a Surprising Twist og:description: GoDaddy pokes fun at all those cheesy but adorable commercials og:url: https://time.com/3684829/super-bowl-go-daddy-puppy-ad/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt3d3f240211d3b71d/69877c3635ba6f2eacc06c0f/screen-shot-2015-01-27-at-3-00-46-pm.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1280 og:image:height: 720 og:image:alt: Screen Shot 2015-01-27 at 3.00.46 PM og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Here's Another Super Bowl Ad Featuring a Puppy, But With a Surprising Twist twitter:description: GoDaddy pokes fun at all those cheesy but adorable commercials twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt3d3f240211d3b71d/69877c3635ba6f2eacc06c0f/screen-shot-2015-01-27-at-3-00-46-pm.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Here's Another Super Bowl Ad Featuring a Puppy, But With a Surprising Twist > Sponsored content. 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Every edition is assembled by TIME editors rather than generated automatically. by [Samantha Grossman](https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman Updated: Dec 13, 2023 6:56 PM UTCPublished: Jan 27, 2015 9:15 PM UTC  by [Samantha Grossman](https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman Updated: Dec 13, 2023 6:56 PM UTCPublished: Jan 27, 2015 9:15 PM UTC You might remember Go Daddy’s supremely [uncomfortable ad](http://newsfeed.time.com/2013/02/05/bar-refaeli-and-the-nerd-that-unbearable-godaddy-kiss-took-60-takes/) from two years ago, in which supermodel Bar Refaeli kissed a chubby, nerdy dude. This time around, the Internet domain company has taken a much different route. This year, Go Daddy pokes fun at cheesy-but-adorable commercials featuring puppies – you know, like those [Budweiser ads](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQB7QRyF4p4). In this 30-second spot, called “Journey Home,” a pup named Buddy fights all kinds of obstacles to make his way home after falling out of a pickup truck. He finally gets back safely, and his humans are of course thrilled – because they just sold him on a website they built using Go Daddy. Some viewers seem to appreciate the joke, but others have protested, saying the ad promotes puppy mills and inhumane breeding practices. As of Tuesday afternoon, more than nine thousand people had signed [a petition](https://www.change.org/p/go-daddy-remove-the-super-bowl-2015-commercial?) to remove the ad altogether. GoDaddy announced Tuesday evening that it will [pull the commercial](http://time.com/3685328/godaddy-puppy-super-bowl-ad/), citing the “emotional and direct” responses from many people who urged them not to run the controversial ad. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3684829/super-bowl-go-daddy-puppy-ad/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3684829/super-bowl-go-daddy-puppy-ad/"},"headline":"Here's Another Super Bowl Ad Featuring a Puppy, But With a Surprising Twist","datePublished":"2015-01-27T21:15:25.000Z","dateModified":"2023-12-13T18:56:57.000Z","description":"GoDaddy's latest commercial has some people laughing — and others so angry they're demanding it be removed","url":"https://time.com/3684829/super-bowl-go-daddy-puppy-ad/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Ads"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt3d3f240211d3b71d/69877c3635ba6f2eacc06c0f/screen-shot-2015-01-27-at-3-00-46-pm.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Samantha Grossman","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt3d3f240211d3b71d/69877c3635ba6f2eacc06c0f/screen-shot-2015-01-27-at-3-00-46-pm.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Screen Shot 2015-01-27 at 3.00.46 PM","caption":"","creditText":"","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3684829/super-bowl-go-daddy-puppy-ad/","name":"Here's Another Super Bowl Ad Featuring a Puppy, But With a Surprising Twist"}}]}] ```