Commercial breakdown: 2019 Camping World 400 

Whether they are irritating interruptions, or chances for folks to run for more snacks, commercials are a reality for NASCAR fans on race day. For those who like to know precisely how many there were, and how much time they took during the broadcast, here is this week’s breakdown.

Race and Commercial Breakdown of the 2019 Camping World 400

Start time to record race/commercial periods: 2:46 PM
Stop time for rain delay: 3:12 PM
Restart time to record race/commercial periods: 6:31 PM
End time to record race/commercial periods: 9:14 PM
Total minutes of complete race broadcast: 189
Minutes of race broadcast: 162
Minutes of traditional commercials: 27
Minutes of side-by-side commercials: 11

Total number of commercials: 100
Total number of companies or entities advertised: 54
Total number of traditional commercials (not split-screen): 69
Total number of companies or entities advertised: 44
Total number of ‘Side-by-Side’ commercials during the broadcast (split-screen): 31
Total number of companies or entities advertised: 21
Number of times NBCSN utilized ‘Side-by-Side’ commercials during the broadcast: 5

Companies seen the most in commercials during this broadcast:  Mountain Dew (6 times); Ford (4 times); Chevy (3 times); Reese’s (3 times); ACE Hardware (3 times) 

Breakdown of what the commercials were, by category:

NBC/TV Previews/Promos:

Sunday Night Football on NBC/NBC Sports – 2
FINA Diving on NBCSN – 2
FINA Swimming on NBCSN – 1
FIVB World Beach Volleyball on NBCSN – 1
‘Evel Live 2’ on History Channel history.com/specials/evel-live-2 – 1
Golf on NBC/NBC Sports nbcsports.com/golf – 1
Tour de France tourdefrance.nbcsports.com on NBC Sports – 1
‘American Pickers’ history.com/American-pickers – 1

Total: 10

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

The Meadows meadowsgaming.com – 1
SpitzerToyota.com spitzertoyota.com – 1

Total: 2

Restaurants/Food

Mountain Dew mountaindew.com/ – 4
Reese’s reeses.com – 3
Arby’s arbys.com – 2
Burger King burgerking.com – 2
Coca-Cola cocacola.com – 2
Dominos dominos.com – 1
Sonic sonicdrivein.com – 1
Wendy’s wendys.com – 1

Total: 16

Beer/Alcohol

Michelob Ultra michelobultra.com – 1

Total: 1

Car/Truck/Bike

Ford ford.com – 4
Chevy chevy.com – 3
RamTrucks.com ramtrucks.com – 2
Pennzoil Pennzoil.com – 2
AudiOffers.com – 1
GMCDealer.com gmcdealer.com – 1
GoodYear goodyear.com (Dale Earnhardt Jr.) #MakeAName – 1
Jeep jeep.com – 1
WeatherTech.com weathertech.com – 1

Total: 16

Insurance/Health

Allstate allstate.com – 1
Geico.com geico.com – 1
Progressive progressive.com – 1

Total: 3

Wireless Phone

Cricket mycricket.com – 3

Total: 3

Home Improvement

ACE Hardware ACEHardware.com – 3

Total: 3

Financial

Ally Bank allybank.com (Jimmie Johnson) #chasing8 – 1
Bank of America/getmoredone bankofamerica.com/getmoredone – 1
GoCreditOne gocreditone.com – 1

Total: 3

Technology

Microsoft.com microsoft.com – 2
Xfinity.com/stores xfinity.com/stores – 2
ComcastSpotlight.com comcastspotlight.com – 1
GolfPass.com – 1

Total: 6

Travel

UniversalOrlando.com – 2
ChoiceHotels.com choicehotels.com – 1
DisneyWorld.com – 1
Hershey Park hersheypark.com – 1

Total: 5

Racing Related

New Hampshire Motor Speedway nhms.com – 1

Total: 1

Race brdcast times:      Comm. brdcast times:

2:46 PM – 2:49 PM – 3       2:49 PM – 2:51 PM – 2
2:51 PM – 2:56 PM – 5       2:56 PM – 2:58 PM – 2
2:58 PM – 3:12 PM – 14      3:12 PM
——————-Rain Delay——————–
6:31 PM – 6:33 PM – 2      6:33 PM – 6:36 PM – 3
6:36 PM – 6:48 PM – 12      6:48 PM – 6:51 PM – 3
6:51 PM – 7:01 PM – 10       7:01 PM – 7:03 PM – 2
7:03 PM – 7:15 PM – 12       7:15 PM – 7:17 PM – 2
7:17 PM – 7:19 PM – 2      7:19 PM – 7:21 PM – 2
7:21 PM – 7:30 PM – 9      7:30 PM – 7:33 PM – 3
7:33 PM – 7:36 PM – 3      7:36 PM – 7:38 PM – 2
7:38 PM – 8:08 PM – 30      8:08 PM – 8:10 PM – 2
8:10 PM – 8:12 PM – 2      8:12 PM – 8:14 PM – 2
8:14 PM – 8:21 PM – 7      8:21 PM – 8:23 PM – 2
8:23 PM – 9:14 PM – 51      9:14 PM – checkered flag

Total race brdcst time: 162      Total comm. brdcst time: 27

Number of companies featured during broadcast:  20
(Monster Energy; Camping World; KFC; Jimmy John’s; Kroger, Maxwell House; Coca-Cola; Chevy; Ram Trucks; Toyota; Sunoco; GoodYear; Geico; Credit One Bank; ‘The Open’ on NBC and the Golf Channel; IndyCar on NBCSN; NBC Sports on Sirius XM NASCAR Radio; ‘NASCAR America’ on NBCSN; NASCAR.com/Drive; NASCAR.com/Mobile; upcoming Cup race)

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

7:44 PM – 7:47 PM
Toyota; McDonald’s; Bank of America; ChoiceHotels.com; McDonald’s; NHMS.com

7:56 PM – 7:58 PM
Toyota; Marriott Bonvoy Marriott.com/bonvoy ; Coca-Cola; Bass Pro Shops & Cabela’s; Wendy’s; upcoming Cup race

8:31 PM – 8:33 PM
Bank of America; Geico; McDonald’s; Mountain Dew; Microsoft; PoconoRaceway.com

8:40 PM – 8:42 PM
Marriott Bonvoy Marriott.com/bonvoy ; Wendy’s; Ally Bank (Jimmie Johnson) #chasing8 ; ‘Evel Live 2’ on History Channel; Wendy’s; upcoming Xfinity race

8:53 PM – 8:55 PM
ChoiceHotels.com; KFC; Toyota; BankofAmerica/getmoredone ; Mountain Dew; Tour de France on NBCSN; Team USA Track & Field Outdoor Championship on NBC Sports