How Many Super Bowl TV Ads Could You Buy With Today's Powerball Win?

The Super Bowl is a big event. Like other annual events round the world, the Melbourne Cup horse racing event in Australia, the Cheese Rolling in UK, and Apple's product announcement event in California, the Super Bowl stops the country for a few hours.

The most popular Super Bowl ad for 2014.

It is also the second largest day for US food consumption, after Thanksgiving. But let's think about spending up large on something else...

The Super Bowl tv commercials accompanying the event are a tradition. Advertisers pay big money for a 30 second or 1 minute slot, averaging around $4 million each.

There were 49 tv commercials in this year's Super Bowl.

That means you would spend $196 million* on all the ads. Today, the USA Powerball stands at $215 million, so after paying off your ad costs, you would have $19 million left for a stylish house somewhere in Hollywood. Plus the income from those ads.

Showing the increase in price for Super Bowl advertising over the years.

Here's a list of all the Super Bowl ads that played this year.

*Not all ads cost $4 million each. And sometimes there are better things to spend your lottery win on!