Cindy Crawford Super Bowl Pepsi Ad Most Viewed on AOL

America Online reports Pepsi's Cindy Crawford commercial was the most viewed 2005 Super Bowl ad on AOL. Not suprisingly, GoDaddy's "Hearing" ad placed close second. The ads, which were available through Saturday on the Web at AOL.com and on the AOL service, were viewed 18.6 million times, more than double the 9.2 million views recorded last year for the 2004 Super Bowl ads. AOL also announced that ads from its Classic Commercials package, which featured popular spots from previous Super Bowls, were viewed 3.8 million times, bringing the total number views for all Super Bowl commercials to more than 22 million. AOL ranked viewership as follows: 1. Diet Pepsi - Cindy Crawford -- 899,773 views 2. GoDaddy.com - Hearing -- 894,983 3. Bud Light - Skydiving -- 803,999 4. Bud Light - Cedric -- 648,430 5. Ford Mustang - Winter -- 605,585 6. Ameriquest - Store Trip -- 600,599 7. Diet Pepsi - P. Diddy -- 596,986 8. Bud Light - Sharing -- 573,280 9. FedEx - Ten Things -- 553,023 10. Ciba Vision - Bubbles -- 526,338 11. Bubblicious - Lebron -- 472,534 12. Visa - Super Heroes -- 459,337 While Pepsi took top viewership honors it was Budweiser's salute to the troops that garnered the most votes among AOL users as the best spot.

Commercials receiving the most votes among AOL users are ranked as follows:

Rank     Company            Spot                     Percentage 


1        Anheuser Busch     Tribute to US Troops             15% 2        Bud Light          Skydiving                        11% 3        Ameriquest         Romantic Dinner                   8% 4        Ameriquest         Store Trip                        7% 5        Diet Pepsi         P. Diddy                          7% 6        GoDaddy.com        Hearing                           6% 7        Ford Mustang       Winter                            5% 8        Bud Light          Sharing                           5% 9        FedEx              Ten Things                        5% 10       Diet Pepsi         Cindy Crawford                    4%

All the spots can be viewed here.

Written by Steve Hall    Comments (2)     Feb-15-05