Commercial breakdown: 2021 Bluegreen Vacations Duels at Daytona

There are certain race tracks where weather may be an issue. Before a fan complains about those rain-friendly tracks, however, they know that the entity know as NASCAR can cause rain to fall in places like California, where songs have been sung about the beautiful, dry weather, or deserts, where tumbleweeds and cacti endure scorching sunshine. It was no surprise, then, when the Duel races were interrupted by rain on Thursday. They were also interrupted by commercials, but fans have learned to endure these as well. Here is an outline of how many there were, and how much time they took out of the broadcast.

Race and Commercial Breakdown of the 2021 Bluegreen Vacations Duels at Daytona

Start time to record race/commercial periods: 7:01 PM
Stop for rain delay: 8:35 PM
Restart: 11:10 PM
End time to record race/commercial periods: 12:23 AM
Total minutes of complete race broadcast: 167
Minutes of race broadcast: 136
Minutes of traditional commercials: 31
Minutes of side-by-side commercials: 6

Total number of commercials: 78
Total number of companies or entities advertised: 42
Total number of traditional commercials (not split-screen): 67
Total number of companies or entities advertised: 38
Total number of ‘Side-by-Side’ commercials during the broadcast (split-screen): 11
Total number of companies or entities advertised: 14
Number of times FS1 utilized ‘Side-by-Side’ commercials during the broadcast: 2

Companies seen the most in commercials during this broadcast:  Geico (6 times); Xfinity (6 times); Coca-Cola/Coke Zero Sugar (6 times); McDonald’s (5 times); Daytona 500 (4 times) 

Breakdown of what the commercials were, by category:

Fox/FS1

Daytona 500 race on Fox/FS1 foxsports.com/nascar ; Coca-Cola, Geico, Xfinity, Busch Beer – 2
Daytona 500 on Fox foxsports.com/nascar/daytona-500 #DaytonaDay – 1
‘Fox College Hoops’ on Fox Sports foxsports.com/college-basketball/ – 1
‘Cherries Wild’ on Fox fox.com/cherries-wild – 1
Fox Nation nation.fox.com – 1
‘Game of Talents’ fox.com/game-of-talents – 1

Total: 7

Local News/Sports/Points-of-Interest in Penna.

Pool City shoppoolcity.com – 1

Total: 1

Restaurants/Food

McDonald’s mcdonalds.com – 5
Reese’s reeses.com – 3
Coke Zero Sugar us.coca-cola.com/zero-sugar – 3
Dr. Pepper drpepper.com – 2
Five Hour Energy Drink #5HEwin fivehour.com – 2
Pizza Hut pizzahut.com/ – 1
Pure Protein pureprotein.com – 1

Total: 17

Car/Truck/Bike

Ram Trucks ram.com – 3
JohnDeere.com/1series johndeere.com/1series – 3
Advance Auto Parts DieHardisBack.com – 1
Chevy chevy.com – 1
Toyota toyota.com – 1

Total: 9

Insurance/Health

Liberty Mutual libertymutual.com – 3
Geico.com geico.com – 3
Progressive progressive.com – 2
Allegheny Health Network/Heart AHN.org/heart – 1
Hippo.com – 1
USAA.com usaa.com – 1

Total: 11

Wireless Phone

Cricket mycricket.com – 3
Xfinity Mobile xfinitymobile.com – 1

Total: 4

Financial

Rocket Mortgage rocketmortgage.com – 2
TAXact.com taxact.com – 2
Turbo Tax turbotax.com – 1

Total: 5

Education

Western Governors University WGU.edu – 3

Total: 3

Technology

Amazon amazon.com – 1
IBM ibm.com – 1
Verizon/5G verizon.com/5G – 1
Xfinity/NASCAR xfinity.com/nascar – 1

Total: 4

Products/Services for the Home and Personal Use

Downy downy.com – 1
Sunosi.com – 1

Total: 2

Travel

Walt Disney World disneyworld.disney.go.com – 2

Total: 2

Racing Related

Daytona International Speedway daytonainternationalspeedway.com/ – 1

Total: 1

Race brdcast times:      Comm. brdcast times:

7:01 PM – 7:03 PM – 2      7:03 PM – 7:06 PM – 3
7:06 PM – 7:09 PM – 3      7:09 PM – 7:12 PM – 3
7:12 PM – 7:27 PM – 15      7:27 PM – 7:30 PM – 3
7:30 PM – 7:41 PM – 11      7:41 PM – 7:44 PM – 3
7:44 PM – 8:12 PM – 28      8:12 PM – 8:15 PM – 3
8:15 PM – 8:21 PM – 6      8:21 PM – 8:23 PM – 2
8:23 PM – 8:27 PM – 4      8:27 PM – 8:29 PM – 2
8:29 PM – 8:35 PM – 6      8:35 PM – Rain Delay
———– Rain Delay ———–
11:10 PM – 11:12 PM – 2      11:12 PM – 11:15 PM – 3
11:15 PM – 11:39 PM – 24      11:39 PM – 11:42 PM – 3
11:42 PM – 11:54 PM – 12      11:54 PM – 11:57 PM – 3
11:57 PM – 12:17 AM – 20      12:17 AM – 12:20 AM – 3
12:20 AM – 12:23 AM – 3      12:23 AM – checkered flag

Total race brdcst time: 136      Total comm. brdcst time: 31

Number of companies featured during broadcast:  15
(Bluegreen Vacations bluegreenvacations.com ; Monster Energy; Daytona 500 on Fox; Fox Bet Super 6 app; Wendy’s; Coca-Cola Zero Sugar; Chevy; Ford Performance; Toyota; Geico; GoodYear; Credit One Bank; Advent Health; Xfinity; ‘Friday Night Smackdown’ on Fox; AMR Safety Team)

Commercials during race broadcast: ‘Side-by-Side’ (‘Thank you!’ to all of the participating sponsors!)

7:49 PM – 7:52 PM
Geico; Verizon 5G; Pizza Hut; upcoming Camping World Truck Series race on FS1; ‘Race Hub’ on FS1; Daytona 500, Coca-Cola, Busch Beer, Geico, Xfinity

11:31 PM – 11:34 PM
Daytona 500 on Fox; Progressive; Toyota; upcoming Xfinity race; ‘Friday Night Smackdown’ on Fox