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THE TOP SUPERBOWL XLIII COMMERCIALS

So the Superbowl has come and gone. A new champion in the National Football League has been crowned and the season has come to an end. This year and estimated 95.4 million people in the United States Of America and 3.6 million Canadians tuned into the big game. Big time ratings bring in big time commercials.

In 2009 NBC quoted a whopping 3 million U.S. dollars for a 30 second commercial spot. Which companies had the most successful ads?

Budweiser had so much success last year with it’s Rocky commercial that they had to bring out the popular Budweiser “clydesdale” horse again. The first clip is a friendly game of Fetch.. The Second clip is a “clydesdale” love story…

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Pepsi and Saturday Night Live had a “colabo” commercial staring a MacGyver-like character…

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Coca-cola had to complete with Pepsi so they re-produced an old commercial and added a new twist and a new “Steeler”…

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Sobe also wanted to throw in a commercial staring some NFL players…

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NBC  wanted to promote a new episode of “HEROES” by putting them up against some legendary NFL heroes..

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Miller High-Life had probably the most innovative and least expensive most popular commercial of Superbowl XLIII…

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