The road to the Daytona 500 continued Thursday evening, with the running of the BlueGreen Vacation Duels. Whether they are qualifying duels, or a weekly race, one thing you can count on is excitement… and commercials. 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 2020 BlueGreen Vacations Duel 1 & 2
Start time to record race/commercial periods: 7:01 PM
Stop time for a rain delay: 7:17 PM
Restart following rain delay: 8:14 PM
End of race: 10:44 PM
Total minutes of complete race broadcast: 166
Minutes of race broadcast: 135
Minutes of traditional commercials: 31
Minutes of side-by-side commercials: 8
Total number of commercials: 82
Total number of companies or entities advertised: 40
Total number of traditional commercials (not split-screen): 66
Total number of companies or entities advertised: 35
Total number of ‘Side-by-Side’ commercials during the broadcast (split-screen): 16
Total number of companies or entities advertised: 14
Number of times FS1 utilized ‘Side-by-Side’ commercials during the broadcast: 3
Companies seen the most in commercials during this broadcast: Progressive, Liberty Mutual, and Xfinity, all were seen 4 times each
Breakdown of what the commercials were, by category:
Fox/FS1
Upcoming Xfinity race on Fox/FS1 foxsports.com/nascar – 1
Upcoming Gander RV & Outdoors Truck Series race on Fox/FS1 foxsports.com/nascar – 1
Daytona 500 on Fox foxsports.com/nascar/daytona-500 #DaytonaDay – 1
Duncanville fox.com/Duncanville – 1
US Open Golf on Fox foxsports.com/golf – 1
Total: 5
Local News/Sports/Points-of-Interest in Penna.
PNC.com pnc.com – 2
Delaney Honda delaneyhonda.com – 1
Smail Kia smailkia.com – 1
Total: 4
Restaurants/Food
DiGiorno’s Pizza digiorno.com/ – 3
KFC kfc.com/ – 3
McDonald’s mcdonalds.com – 3
Mountain Dew mountaindew.com/ – 2
Philadelphia Cream Cheese myfoodandfamily.com/brands/Philadelphia – 2
Pizza Hut pizzahut.com/ – 2
Wendy’s wendys.com – 1
Dave & Busters daveandbusters.com – 1
Total: 17
Beer/Alcohol
Jack Daniels jackdaniels.com – 1
Total: 1
Car/Truck/Bike
Ram Trucks ram.com – 2
Jaguar jaguarusa.com – 2
Toyota toyota.com – 2
Kia kia.com – 1
Total: 7
Insurance/Health
Liberty Mutual libertymutual.com – 4
Progressive progressive.com – 3
SafeAuto safeauto.com – 2
Geico.com geico.com – 2
Total: 11
Wireless Phone
Verizon verizon.com/ #5GBuiltRight – 3
Total: 3
Financial
Turbo Tax turbotax.com – 3
Rocket Mortgage rocketmortgage.com – 2
QuickBooks.com quickbooks.com – 1
Total: 6
Technology
Xfinity.com xfinity.com – 4
Total: 4
Products/Services for the Home and Personal Use
Trulicity.com trulicity.com – 2
Get Roman getroman.com/tv – 1
Total: 3
Travel
Walt Disney World disneyworld.disney.go.com – 2
Visit California visitcalifornia.com – 1
Total: 3
Racing Related
Daytona 500 daytona500.com #DAYTONA500 – 2
Total: 2
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 – 7:17 PM – 5
————— Rain Delay ——————-
8:14 PM – 8:28 PM – 14 8:28 PM – 8:31 PM – 3
8:31 PM – 8:46 PM –15 8:46 PM – 8:49 PM – 3
8:49 PM – 8:54 PM – 5 8:54 PM – 8:56 PM – 2
8:56 PM – 9:16 PM – 20 9:16 PM – 9:19 PM – 3
9:19 PM – 9:21 PM – 2 9:21 PM – 9:24 PM – 3
9:24 PM – 9:25 PM – 1 9:25 PM – 9:28 PM – 3
9:28 PM – 9:31 PM – 3 9:31 PM – 9:34 PM – 3
9:34 PM – 9:36 PM – 2 9:36 PM – 9:39 PM – 3
9:39 PM – 9:41 PM – 2 9:41 PM – 9:43 PM – 2
9:43 PM – 10:44 PM – 61 10:44 PM – checkered flag
Total race brdcst time: 135 Total comm. brdcst time: 31
Number of companies featured during broadcast: 15
(BlueGreen Vacations bluegreenvacations.com , Coca-Cola @cocacolaracing ; Busch Light, Chevy; Ford Performance; Toyota; GoodYear; Geico; Advent Health; Credit One Bank; XFL Football on Fox; College Basketball on Fox Sports; ‘Race Hub’ on FS1; upcoming Xfinity race; upcoming Cup race)
Commercials during race broadcast: ‘Side-by-Side’ (‘Thank you!’ to all of the participating sponsors!)
8:40 PM – 8:43 PM
Progressive; GetRoman.com/NASCAR ; Marco’s Pizza; Gander RV & Truck Series nascar.com/trucks ; WWE Smackdown on Fox
9:59 PM – 10:01 PM
Geico; Verizon #5GBuiltRight ; Pizza Hut; LVMS.com; Boxing on Fox Sports; Daytona500.com
10:18 PM – 10:21 PM
XFL on Fox; PNC; Toyota; Daytona500.com; Boxing on Fox Sports