Cheerios Will Air A Super Bowl Ad From The Team Behind Its Huge Mixed-Race Family Spot [THE BRIEF]

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Cheerios announced it will have a TV ad during this year's Super Bowl. The General Mills brand announced on its blog that the ad will center on family love and "Cheerios' point of view about families." That's potentially big news considering the controversy the brand stirred up earlier this year when it featured a mixed-race family in one of its ads. Cheerios said the ad would be made by the same creative team behind that commercial.

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