--- description: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. title: Budweiser: "Puppy Love" image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf80a50f1a988cbe7/6998cd3be1ba008edc98e4bd/time-hi-res.webp?branch=production&width=640&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 --- Dec 02, 2014 # Budweiser: "Puppy Love" by [TIME Staff](/author/time-staff/) ## TIME Staff Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close  When it comes to a good commercial, interspecies friendship is the trump card. Anheuser-Busch and ad agency Anomaly [scored a touchdown](http://time.com/3870/budweiser-puppy-love-super-bowl-commercial/ "undefined") with their heartwarming Super Bowl ad “Puppy Love.” The spot follows the growing friendship of a mischievous puppy and the Clydesdale horse next door. As their friendship blossoms, so does the relationship between the puppy’s owner (played by former swimsuit model Melissa Keller) and the horse’s hunky trainer. After viewers were done reaching for the Kleenex, they voted it the top Super Bowl ad on Hulu and viewed the spot more than 53 million times on YouTube. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Article","@id":"https://time.com/collections/top-10-everything-of-2014/3588099/puppy-love-budweiser/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/collections/top-10-everything-of-2014/3588099/puppy-love-budweiser/"},"headline":"Budweiser: \"Puppy Love\"","datePublished":"2014-12-02T21:05:47.000Z","dateModified":"2026-03-02T23:04:15.448Z","description":"","url":"https://time.com/collections/top-10-everything-of-2014/3588099/puppy-love-budweiser/","keywords":[],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf80a50f1a988cbe7/6998cd3be1ba008edc98e4bd/time-hi-res.webp?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"TIME Staff","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/time-staff/"}],"creator":"TIME Staff","articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf80a50f1a988cbe7/6998cd3be1ba008edc98e4bd/time-hi-res.webp?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675}],"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":"https://time.com/collections/top-10-everything-of-2014/3588099/puppy-love-budweiser/","name":"Budweiser: \"Puppy Love\""}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"Super Bowl Ad: Budweiser","description":"Super Bowl Ad: Budweiser","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/DETEPLXC/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2014-02-03T03:25:33.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/DETEPLXC.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/collections/top-10-everything-of-2014/3588099/puppy-love-budweiser/","duration":"PT59S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/collections/top-10-everything-of-2014/3588099/puppy-love-budweiser/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```