There are many variations of the old saying, “If wishes were fishes,” dealing with fishes, horses, turnips, and more. Following Sunday’s Cup race in Kansas, there may be scads more ‘old/new’ sayings, from various drivers (i.e. “If wishes were collisions I’d have a playoff spot,” or “If wishes were sponsors I would know my next boss.”) Fans who were watching the race either had their wishes fulfilled or dashed, with time during the commercials to ponder things. For those folks who would like to know precisely how many ads there were, and how much time they took during the broadcast, here is this week’s breakdown.
Race and Commercial Breakdown of the 2022 Hollywood Casino 400 presented by Barstool Sportsbook
Start time to record race/commercial periods: 3:00 PM
End time to record race/commercial periods: 6:32 PM
Total minutes of complete race broadcast: 212
Minutes of race broadcast: 179
Minutes of traditional commercials: 33
Minutes of side-by-side commercials: 10
Total number of commercials: 110
Total number of companies or entities advertised: 50
Total number of traditional commercials (not split-screen): 80
Total number of companies or entities advertised: 44
Total number of ‘Side-by-Side’ commercials during the broadcast (split-screen): 30
Total number of companies or entities advertised: 18
Number of times USA utilized ‘Side-by-Side’ commercials during the broadcast: 5
Companies seen the most in commercials during this broadcast: Sonic (7 times); Xfinity (5 times); Geico (5 times); ebay motors (5 times); T-Mobile (5 times); Toyota (5 times); Coca-Cola (4 times); USAA (4 times); Northern Tool (4 times); Skechers (4 times)
Breakdown of what the commercials were, by category:
NBC/USA TV Previews/Promos:
‘Race for the Championship’ on USA – 2
‘Chucky’ on USA & SyFy – 2
‘Monday Night Raw’ usanetwork.com/wwe-raw – 2
Sunday Night Football on NBC/NBC Sports & Peacock – 1
Peacock peacocktv.com – 1
‘Quantum Leap’ nbc.com/quantum-leap – 1
‘Snake in the Grass’ usanetwork.com/snake-in-the-grass – 1
Upcoming Cup race on NBC/NBC Sports Coca-Cola, Busch Beer, Xfinity, Geico NASCAR.com/tickets – 1
Total: 11
Movies
‘Cars on the Road’ disneyplus.com/series/cars-on-the-road/1xLouZmjyMHu – 1
Total: 1
Local News/Sports/Points-of-Interest in Penna.
C Harper Chevy East CHarperChevyEast.com – 2
Tractor Brothers tractorbrothers.com & Mahindra mahindrausa.com (Tony Stewart, Chase Briscoe) – 2
Clearview Federal Credit Union clearviewfcu.org – 1
Jim Shorkey Murrysville Chevy jimshorkeymurrysvillechevy.com – 1
PA Lottery palottery.state.pa.us/ – 1
Total: 7
Restaurants/Food
Sonic sonicdrivein.com – 5
Coca-Cola cocacola.com – 3
Applebees applebees.com – 2
Total: 10
Beer/Alcohol
Keystone Light keystonelight.com – 1
Total: 1
Car/Truck/Bike
ebay motors ebay.com – 3
Toyota toyota.com – 2
Toyota toyota.com (Christopher Bell) – 2
Vroom vroom.com – 2
Carvana.com carvana.com – 2
NAPA napaonline.com/ – 2
Die Hard batteries diehard.com and Advance Auto advanceautoparts.com – 1
GoodYear goodyear.com – 1
Safe Lite safelite.com – 1
Buyatoyota.com buyatoyota.com – 1
Total: 17
Insurance/Health
USAA.com Safe Pilot usaa.com/safepilot – 4
Geico.com geico.com – 2
TreatCV19.com or covid19oralrx.com/en – 2
Progressive progressive.com – 1
Total: 9
Wireless Phone
T-Mobile t-mobile.com/ – 2
Verizon/Frontline Verizon.com/frontline – 2
Total: 4
Home Improvement
Northern Tool & Equipment northerntool.com – 4
ACE Hardware ACEHardware.com – 3
Total: 7
Financial
Ally Bank allybank.com (Alex Bowman) – 2
Bank of America/CustomizedCash bankofamerica.com/CustomizedCash – 1
Total: 3
Education
Pennsylvania Western University PennWest.edu – 1
Total: 1
Technology
Amazon amazon.com – 2
Points Bet join.pointsbet.com – 1
Xfinity.com xfinity.com – 1
Total: 4
Products/Services for the Home and Personal Use
Skechers skechers.com – 4
Total: 4
Racing Related
Texas Motor Speedway texasmotorspeedway.com – 1
Total: 1
Race brdcast times: // Comm. brdcast times:
3:00 PM – 3:03 PM – 3 // 3:03 PM – 3:05 PM – 2
3:05 PM – 3:09 PM – 4 // 3:09 PM – 3:12 PM – 3
3:12 PM – 3:30 PM – 18 // 3:30 PM – 3:32 PM – 2
3:32 PM – 3:38 PM – 6 // 3:38 PM – 3:40 PM – 2
3:40 PM – 3:47 PM – 7 // 3:47 PM – 3:50 PM – 3
3:50 PM – 4:00 PM – 10 // 4:00 PM – 4:02 PM – 2
4:02 PM – 4:11 PM – 9 // 4:11 PM – 4:13 PM – 2
4:13 PM – 4:21 PM – 8 // 4:21 PM – 4:23 PM – 2
4:23 PM – 4:25 PM – 2 // 4:25 PM – 4:27 PM – 2
4:27 PM – 4:35 PM – 8 // 4:35 PM – 4:37 PM – 2
4:37 PM – 4:50 PM – 13 // 4:50 PM – 4:52 PM – 2
4:52 PM – 4:58 PM – 6 // 4:58 PM – 5:01 PM – 3
5:01 PM – 5:14 PM – 13 // 5:14 PM – 5:17 PM – 3
5:17 PM – 5:32 PM – 15 // 5:32 PM – 5:34 PM – 2
5:34 PM – 5:37 PM – 3 // 5:37 PM – 5:38 PM – 1
5:38 PM – 6:32 PM – 54 // 6:32 PM – checkered flag
Total race brdcst time: 179 // Total comm. brdcst time: 33
Number of companies featured during broadcast:
(Hollywood Casino hollywoodcasino.com ; Barstool Sportsbook barstoolsportsbook.com ; Applebee’s; Sonic; Coca-Cola; Sunny D sunnyd.com ; Monster Energy; Busch Beer; Ford Performance; Toyota; Geico; Liberty Mutual; Northern Tool; Propane.com ; Credit One Bank; Xfinity; ‘Quantum Leap’ on NBC & Peacock nbc.com/quantum-leap ; Sunday Night Football & ‘Football Night in America’ on NBC & Peacock; Indy Car Series; NBC Sports on Sirius/XM NASCAR Radio channel 90; NASCAR.com/Mobile ; NASCAR.com/Drive ; NASCAR Tracks app; NASCAR.com/ToyotaPlayoffs )
Commercials during race broadcast: ‘Side-by-Side’ (‘Thank you!’ to all of the participating sponsors!)
5:26 PM – 5:28 PM
Xfinity; ebay motors ; Geico; Applebee’s; T-Mobile; TalladegaSuperSpeedway.com
5:48 PM – 5:50 PM
Progressive; T-Mobile; Sonic; Bank of America/CustomizedCash ; Xfinity; NASCAR.com/Shop
5:58 PM – 6:00 PM
Applebee’s; T-Mobile; Blue-Emu; Carvana; CharlotteMotorSpeedway.com ; ‘Snake in the Grass’ on USA
6:11 PM – 6:13 PM
Geico; Verizon/FrontLine ; Sonic; Xfinity; ebay motors; Bank of America/CustomizedCash
6:19 PM – 6:21 PM
Propane.com; Verizon/FrontLine ; WeatherTech.com ; Carvana; Blue-Emu; Upcoming Cup race on USA