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Weary of the Super Bowl commercials? So are we. For this week's Ads of the Week collection, we move on to other spots released since the game ended—with the exception of Jamie Casino's epic local Super Bowl ad, which we couldn't help but include. Watch our picks for the week's five best spots below, and vote for your favorite. If your pick isn't shown here, tell us in the comments.

Eric Kallman, the award-winning creative director who helped make Old Spice's "The Man Your Man Could Smell Like," Ragù's "Long Day of Childhood" and some of the classic Skittles commercials, is joining Goodby, Silverstein & Partners as a creative director and associate partner. He starts March 3. To welcome him, the San Francisco agency whipped up the pretty hilarious Dove "Real Beauty Sketches" parody below, starring Jeff Goodby, Rich Silverstein and Margaret Johnson.

It was a game that smashed multiple records. This year’s showdown between the Seattle Seahawks and the Denver Broncos topped charts on several fronts, from the quickest score from the beginning of the game (12 seconds) to the most money bet by fans ($119 million) and the most viewers overall (111.5 million). It was a record for advertisers, too, as new data continues to show. In between the turnovers and touchdowns, the 72 brands that trotted out 112 commercials witnessed a huge boost in traffic to their websites.

All this talk about the TV commercials on the Super Bowl, but who could forget about the radio commercials? Well, almost everyone. But not WestWoodOne, which aired the game on Sunday and just released a list of the five best radio ads of the night. The big winner was Motel 6, which placed the top spot—an amusing ad from The Richards Group called "Autocorrect," narrated by Tom Bodett, the chain's spokesman for going on 30 years.