Most of this year’s Super Bowl commercials featured the familiar voices of celebrities, from Zendaya to Colin Jost. But if you were watching the game this year, you may have been wondering what was up ...

Coinbase Global, the largest U.S. cryptocurrency exchange, made its Super Bowl debut with a QR code ad so popular that it crashed the app and forced the company to throttle traffic to its site. The ...

While Coinbase got more than 20 million of you to scan a QR code during the Super Bowl, we don't need advertisers normalizing scammer behaviors. Since my start in 2008, I've covered a wide variety of ...

Advertising for cryptocurrency services got a lot of attention during Sunday’s Super Bowl, but an ad for Coinbase Inc. managed to crash their website and raise security concerns. Companies advertising ...

Coinbase's ad for its cryptocurrency exchange site featured one long shot of a QR code (a type of barcode that can be scanned by smartphones) floating around the screen like a classic screensaver. But ...

For the uninitiated, Coinbase — a cryptocurrency exchange — ran a 60 second spot that featured a QR code bouncing around in a way reminiscent of old DVD screensavers. It was a roaring success.

It was Sunday evening, Feb. 13, 2022, and my family was watching the NFL Super Bowl game between the L.A. Rams and the Cincinnati Bengals. Suddenly a commercial popped up with just a colorful QR code ...