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A soda war is brewing. Pepsi Zero Sugar's Super Bowl 60 commercial, "The Choice," features a cola-loving polar bear who takes the Pepsi Challenge and chooses Pepsi over Coca-Cola Zero Sugar, triggering an existential crisis that leads to a journey of self-discovery culminating in a Coldplay concert kiss cam moment. Directed by The Academy -winner Taika Waititi, who also cameos as the bear's therapist, and set to Queen's "I Want to Break Free," the ad is rooted in real data. According to the bran

Pepsi is poking the bear again. 🫵 A Super Bowl ad for Pepsi Zero Sugar touts a new victory in the Pepsi Challenge, the decades-old sampling program revived in 2025, using a conflicted polar bear that evokes rival Coca-Cola without ever naming it. Led by BBDO and the Pepsi Content Studio, “The Choice” bets that taste—and a bit of goofy bravado—is still the most persuasive case Pepsi can make, a claim the brand has spent the past year testing in the real world. “This is not about cola wars,” said