Doritos superbowl YouTube/Doritos Doritos and Mountain Dew go head to head in Pepsi Co's Super Bowl ad.

  • Fans are going crazy for PepsiCo's Super Bowl commercial which shows two of its most popular brands, Doritos and Mountain Dew. 
  • It has over 10 million views online, according to  iSpotTV .
  • The ad shows ad Peter Dinklage and Busta Rhymes teaming up in a singing battle against Morgan Freeman and Missy Elliot. 

 

PepsiCo has struck gold with this year's Super Bowl ad for two of its best-known brands, Doritos and Mountain Dew.

The commercial, which shows Game of Thrones actor P eter Dinklage and rapper Busta Rhymes teaming up in a singing battle against actor Morgan Freeman and rapper Missy Elliot, has more than 10 million views online and is the most shared  ad on social media,  according to iSpotTV .  

NBC is reportedly charging  $5 million per 30 seconds  of commercial showing time, which means that Pepsi Co would have spent around $10 million on this minute-long ad.

But it's a stroke of genius: by advertising two brands in one commercial, the company is killing two birds with one stone. 

The ad also represents a comeback from Pepsi's disastrous Kendall Jenner commercial in April 2017, which showed the model giving Pepsi to police and protesters amid a national controversy over police brutality . Pepsi pulled the ad. 

Here's the full Super Bowl ad: 

 

 

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