Will your "home made" Doritos Super Bowl commercial win 5 million dolars?

This year, Doritos “Crash the Super Bowl” will once again turn complete control of its Super Bowl ad time over to its fans.  The brand will air three consumer-created :30 Doritos spots during the Super Bowl XLIV broadcast and give the winners $5 million if the homemade ads claim the top three spots of the USA
TODAY Ad Meter.

The official entry site is: http://www.crashthesuperbowl.com.

DORITOS OFFERS FANS $5 MILLION TO SWEEP TOP THREE SPOTS
OF USA TODAY SUPER BOWL AD METER WITH CONSUMER-CREATED ADS



New York City’s Madison Avenue Re-Named to Doritos Drive, Free Doritos Given to Residents of Madison Avenues Across U.S. to Launch Groundbreaking Contest

September 11, 2009

PLANO, Texas  — After shocking the world earlier this year at Super Bowl XLIII when its consumer-created Super Bowl ad took the number one spot in USA TODAY’s annual Super Bowl Ad Meter, the Doritos brand today announced it will once again turn over complete control of its Super Bowl air
time to consumers, but is raising the stakes like never before.  The brand will air three consumer-created :30 Doritos spots during the Super Bowl XLIV broadcast and give the winners $5 million if the homemade ads claim the top three spots of the USA TODAY Ad Meter.

In conjunction with this announcement, New York City’s Madison Avenue – the
iconic symbol of the advertising industry – will officially be re-named to
Doritos Drive today in honor of the creativity and passion of Doritos lovers
that changed the Super Bowl ad game last year.

As a gesture of thanks to the advertising legends that continue to inspire the
brand’s fans, free Doritos tortilla chips will be given away throughout the day
on Madison Avenue.  And, since consumers have shown that Madison-Avenue
creativity can come from anywhere, the brand also will send coupons for free
Doritos chips to people across the country that live on a “Madison Avenue” as a
salute to their dreams and an invitation to enter this year’s contest.

 “Doritos fans have shown they have the creativity and passion to compete at
the highest level, and last year’s success proved that their incredible talent
can shatter conventional limitations and boundaries,” said Ann Mukherjee, group
vice president, marketing, Doritos.  “We’ve had the honor of sharing our Super
Bowl spotlight with some of our talented fans over the last few years, and our
sincere hope is to once again provide a launching pad for more dreams to become
reality.”

During the Super Bowl XLIII broadcast in February 2009, a homemade Doritos
commercial entitled “Free Doritos,” made by Joe and Dave Herbert of Batesville,
Ind. for less than  $2,000, snagged the number-one spot on the USA TODAY Ad
Meter, beating the seasoned ad pros that traditionally dominate the rankings.
This marked the first time ever an amateur ad achieved such an accomplishment
and a first top-ranking ad for the Doritos brand, which is a part of PepsiCo’s
Frito-Lay division.

This year, participants can upload :30 commercials that share their love for
Doritos tortilla chips to www.crashthesuperbowl.com from September 21, 2009  to
November 9, 2009 to be considered for one of the coveted spots that can change
the lives of Doritos fans.  To help entrants amp up their creative masterpieces,
the site also houses a toolbox where Doritos logos, product shots, music and
animations are available for download and use.  In addition, Joe and Dave
Herbert also will play a role in this year’s program, serving as “mentors” to
contestants through a series of fun tutorial videos featured on the contest’s
website.

Six finalists’ ads will be announced in January 2010.  Then it will be up to
fans to vote for their favorite ads online and determine the three winning
Doritos spots to air during the Super Bowl XLIV broadcast on February 7, 2010 on
CBS.  Each of the six finalists will win $25,000 and a trip to South Florida to
attend Super Bowl XLIV in a private luxury suite at the game, where they will
tune in to learn for the first time which ads won when they air for a worldwide
audience.  Beginning today, details about the advertising challenge are
available at www.crashthesuperbowl.com.

Potential grand prizing for the contest will be based on each winning ad’s
ranking on the USA TODAY Ad Meter:

·        $1 million will be awarded for an ad that scores the number one spot
on the Ad Meter



·        $600,000 will be awarded for an ad that scores the number two spot on
the Ad Meter



·        $400,000 will be awarded for an ad that scores the number three spot
on the Ad Meter



If consumer-created Doritos ads sweep all the top three rankings of the USA
TODAY Ad Meter, an additional $1 million bonus will be awarded to each winner
for a total prize giveaway of $5 million.

The USA TODAY Super Bowl Ad Meter tracks the second-by-second responses of a
panel of viewers to ads during the national broadcast of the Super Bowl and
ranks them favorite to least favorite.  Created in 1989, USA TODAY’s Ad Meter
has been regarded as the most influential Super Bowl ad rating in the
advertising industry.

Crash the Super Bowl is one of many ways the Doritos brand continues to turn
control over to consumers.  The brand’s commitment to fan-empowerment began with
the Doritos “Crash the Super Bowl” program, which started in 2007 and has turned
the brand’s Super Bowl advertising over to its fans every year.  In addition,
the brand has put consumers in control through a variety of other exciting
opportunities, including the Doritos “X-13D Flavor Experiment,” where consumers
had a chance to name a new mysterious flavor of chips; “THE QUEST,” which
engaged fans in a multi-faceted online and real-world adventure of challenges;
and “Doritos Late Night,” which provided Doritos fans ground-breaking virtual
musical performances by blink-182 and Big Boi through the power of augmented
reality technology where fans could enjoy and control the performances in the
palm of their hand.

Frito-Lay North America is the $12 billion convenient foods business unit of
PepsiCo (NYSE: PEP), which is headquartered in Purchase, NY.  In addition to
Frito-Lay, PepsiCo business units include Pepsi-Cola, Quaker Foods, Gatorade and
Tropicana. Learn more about Frito-Lay at the corporate Web site,
www.fritolay.com and the Snack Chat blog, www.snacks.com.

PepsiCo offers the world’s largest portfolio of billion-dollar food and
beverage brands, including 18 different product lines that each generate more
than $1 billion in annual retail sales.  Our main businesses – Frito-Lay,
Quaker, Pepsi-Cola, Tropicana and Gatorade – also make hundreds of other
nourishing, tasty foods and drinks that bring joy to our consumers in over 200
countries.  With more than $43 billion in 2008 revenues, PepsiCo employs 198,000
people who are united by our unique commitment to sustainable growth, called
Performance with Purpose.  By dedicating ourselves to offering a broad array of
choices for healthy, convenient and fun nourishment, reducing our environmental
impact, and fostering a diverse and inclusive workplace culture, PepsiCo
balances strong financial returns with giving back to our communities worldwide.
 For more information, please visit www.pepsico.com.