Commercial breakdown: 2021 Pennzoil 500 presented by Jiffy Lube

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Race and Commercial Breakdown of the 2021 Pennzoil 500 presented by Jiffy Lube

Start time to record race/commercial periods: 3:30 PM
End time to record race/commercial periods: 6:41 PM
Total minutes of complete race broadcast: 191
Minutes of race broadcast: 150
Minutes of traditional commercials: 41
Minutes of side-by-side commercials: 8

Total number of commercials: 121
Total number of companies or entities advertised: 55
Total number of traditional commercials (not split-screen): 99
Total number of companies or entities advertised: 51
Total number of ‘Side-by-Side’ commercials during the broadcast (split-screen): 22
Total number of companies or entities advertised: 17
Number of times Fox utilized ‘Side-by-Side’ commercials during the broadcast: 4

Companies seen the most in commercials during this broadcast: Xfinity (9 times); Geico (9 times); Busch Beer (7 times); Toyota (7 times); Coca-Cola (6 times); Ford (6 times); Jiffy Lube (6 times)

Breakdown of what the commercials were, by category:

Fox/FS1

‘Cherries Wild’ on Fox fox.com/cherries-wild – 4
Big East Tournament on Fox foxsports.com/college-basketball – 2
‘Big Bang Theory’ and ‘2½ Men’ – 2
FoxSports app foxsports.com – 1
Upcoming Cup race on Fox/FS1 foxsports.com/nascar ; Coca-Cola, Geico, Xfinity, Busch Beer – 1
Fox Nation nation.fox.com – 1
‘Game of Talents’ fox.com/game-of-talents and ‘The Masked Singer’ fox.com/the-masked-singer/ – 1
‘The Masked Singer’ fox.com/the-masked-singer/ – 1
‘911’ fox.com/9-1-1 on Fox – 1
Paramount + paramountnetwork.com – 1

Total: 15

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

NBC local news wpxi.com on Foxfox.com – 2
A Comfort Service acomfortservice.com – 1
PA Lottery palottery.state.pa.us/ – 1

Total: 4

Restaurants/Food

Coke Zero Sugar us.coca-cola.com/zero-sugar – 3
KFC kfc.com/ – 3
Wendy’s wendys.com – 2
Mountain Dew mountaindew.com/ – 2
Reese’s reeses.com – 2
Door Dash doordash.com (Bubba Wallace) – 1
M&Ms mms.com – 1
Snickers.com snickers.com – 1
Taco Bell tacobell.com – 1

Total: 16

Beer/Alcohol

Busch busch.com – 4

Total: 4

Car/Truck/Bike

Ford ford.com – 5
Jiffy Lube jiffylube.com – 4
Ram Trucks ram.com – 3
GoodYear goodyear.com – 2
Toyota toyota.com – 2
Toyota toyota.com (Kyle Busch) – 2
Buyatoyota.com buyatoyota.com – 1
WeatherTech.com weathertech.com – 1
Chevy chevy.com – 1

Total: 21

Insurance/Health

USAA.com usaa.com – 5
Geico.com geico.com – 4
Progressive progressive.com – 2
Liberty Mutual libertymutual.com – 1

Total: 12

Wireless Phone

T-Mobile t-mobile.com/ – 2
T-Mobile/55 t-mobile.com/55 – 1
Xfinity Mobile xfinitymobile.com – 1

Total: 4

Financial

Experian.com/boost experian.com/boost – 2
Credible.com – 1
Guaranteed Rate rate.com (Ryan Newman) – 1
Turbo Tax turbotax.com – 1

Total: 5

Technology

Fan Duel fanduel.com – 2
IBM ibm.com – 2
Xfinity.com xfinity.com – 2
BetMGM sports.betmgm.com – 1
Consolidated Communications consolidated.com/FastInternet – 1
Tubi tubitv.com – 1

Total: 9

Products/Services for the Home and Personal Use

Just For Men justformen.com – 3
Head & Shoulders headandshoulders.com – 2
Allegra allegra.com – 1
Gillette gillette.com – 1

Total: 7

Racing Related

NASCAR.com/kidstix nascar.com/kidstix – 1
Atlanta Motor Speedwayatlantamotorspeedway.com/ – 1

Total: 2

Race brdcast times:      Comm. brdcast times:

3:30 PM – 3:33 PM – 3      3:33 PM – 3:35 PM – 2
3:35 PM – 3:39 PM – 4      3:39 PM – 3:41 PM – 2
3:41 PM – 3:54 PM – 13      3:54 PM – 3:56 PM – 2
3:56 PM – 4:04 PM – 8      4:04 PM – 4:07 PM – 3
4:07 PM – 4:14 PM – 7      4:14 PM – 4:16 PM – 2
4:16 PM – 4:20 PM – 4      4:20 PM – 4:23 PM – 3
4:23 PM – 4:40 PM – 17      4:40 PM – 4:43 PM – 3
4:43 PM – 4:45 PM – 2      4:45 PM – 4:48 PM – 3
4:48 PM – 4:55 PM – 7      4:55 PM – 4:57 PM – 2
4:57 PM – 5:03 PM – 6      5:03 PM – 5:06 PM – 3
5:06 PM – 5:14 PM – 8      5:14 PM – 5:17 PM – 3
5:17 PM – 5:29 PM – 12      5:29 PM – 5:32 PM – 3
5:32 PM – 5:34 PM – 2      5:34 PM – 5:37 PM – 3
5:37 PM – 5:43 PM – 6      5:43 PM – 5:45 PM – 2
5:45 PM – 5:53 PM – 8      5:53 PM – 5:56 PM – 3
5:56 PM – 6:07 PM – 11      6:07 PM – 6:09 PM – 2
6:09 PM – 6:41 PM – 32      6:41 PM – checkered flag

Total race brdcst time: 150      Total comm. brdcst time: 41

Number of companies featured during broadcast: 31
(Jiffy Lube; Monster Energy; Fox Bet Super 6 app, Clint’s Stage 2 Contest; Smithfield Power Bites smithfield.com/products/snacking/homestyle-power-bites/ ; KFC; Wendy’s; Subway; Ethel M candy ethelm.com ; Coca-Cola, Coke Zero Sugar; Busch Beer; Natural Light naturallight.com , #Naturdays ; Ford Performance; Toyota, TRD; Ram Trucks; GoodYear; Geico; Liberty Mutual; Progressive; USAA; AmeriSave; Ally Bank; Credit One Bank; Columbia Sportswear Columbia.com ; Xfinity; Big East Tournament on Fox/FS1; ‘Friday Night Smackdown’ on Fox; ‘Cherries Wild’ on Fox; ‘NASCAR Race Hub’ on FS1; Upcoming Bristol dirt race; Upcoming Xfinity race; Upcoming Cup race)

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

4:31 PM – 4:33 PM
Progressive; Toyota; Upcoming Cup race, Coca-Cola, Busch Beer, Geico, Xfinity; PNC Bank; Jiffy Lube; Upcoming Xfinity race NASCAR.com/
Xfinity

5:22 PM – 5:24 PM
Ram Trucks; Upcoming Camping World Truck Series race NASCAR.com/trucks ; Wendy’s; Upcoming Cup race, Coca-Cola, Busch Beer, Geico, Xfinity; Big East Tournament on Fox/FS1

6:14 PM – 6:16 PM
Toyota (Bubba Wallace); Progressive; Xfinity.com/nascar ; Fox Nation; Upcoming Xfinity Series race NASCAR.com/Xfinity

6:26 PM – 6:28 PM
Ford; Geico; Fox Sports app; Jiffy Lube; Subway; Upcoming Camping World Truck Series race NASCAR.com/trucks