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.

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 ...

I should have known better: the QR code led to a website for Coinbase, which offered “$15 in free Bitcoin for signing up.” I don’t know what Coinbase, and honestly, I don’t care. But I do care that ...

The bouncing ad, reminiscent of DVD player logos, allowed viewers to scan the code, taking them to a cryptocurrency website offer. CNET editor Gael Fashingbauer Cooper, a journalist and pop-culture ...

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 ...

Every Super Bowl is defined by its commercials, and this year, one of the clips that had everyone talking was predictably related to cryptocurrency exchange. Coinbase's 60-second spot was simple. A ...

this Super Bowl Cryptocurrency exchanges like coin based F. T. X. And crypto dot com are shelling out top dollar to run their first high profile tv ads to an audience of upwards to 100 and 10 million ...