On Sunday, a Sasquatch and a Yeti joined, Adam Smith, the CEO of Jack Link’s Meat Snacks, to give the call to start the engines for the Cup race at Talladega Super Speedway. While some may consider this a bit unusual, any NASCAR fan will tell you that all of the sponsors of racing, and the mascots associated with them, are appreciated and supported, so those races keep running and showing up on TV. For those very fans who like to know precisely how many ads there were (and possible legendary creatures performing pre-race duties), and how much time they took during the broadcast, here is this week’s breakdown.
Race and Commercial Breakdown of the 2025 Jack Link’s 500
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: 187
Minutes of traditional commercials: 25
Minutes of side-by-side commercials: 36
Total number of commercials: 151
Total number of companies or entities advertised: 120
Total number of traditional commercials (not split-screen): 63
Total number of companies or entities advertised: 43
Total number of ‘Side-by-Side’ commercials during the broadcast (split-screen): 88
Total number of companies or entities advertised: 97
Number of times Fox utilized ‘Side-by-Side’ commercials during the broadcast: 13
Companies seen the most in commercials during this broadcast: Wendy’s (10 times); Busch Beer (8 times); Xfinity (7 times); Pizza Hut (6 times); Applebee’s (5 times)
Breakdown of what the commercials were, by category:
Fox/FS1
IndyCar on Fox – 3
NBA Basketball on Fox foxsports.com/nba/schedule – 2
‘Master Chef: Dynamic Duos fox.com/masterchef/ – 2
All Star Race foxsports.com/nascar northwilkesborospeedway.com – 1
UFL theUFL.com – 1
Fox Nation nation.fox.com – 1
Total: 10
Local News/Sports/Points-of-Interest in Penna.
MawsonandMawson.com – 4
McClellandsRoofing.com – 3
NBC local news wpgh.com on Fox – 1
Bet365.com – 1
C Harper CHarper.com – 1
C Harper CHarperChevrolet.com – 1
KeystoneShootingCenter.com keystoneshootingcenter.com – 1
PNC.com pnc.com – 1
Total: 13
Restaurants/Food
Pizza Hut pizzahut.com/ – 4
Wendy’s wendys.com – 4
Applebees applebees.com – 2
Chipotle chipotle.com – 1
McDonald’s mcdonalds.com – 1
Panera Bread panerabread.com – 1
Total: 11
Beer/Alcohol
Busch Light busch.com – 1
Keystone Light keystonelight.com – 1
Total: 2
Car/Truck/Bike
Armor All facebook.com/armorall – 1
Chevy chevy.com – 1
GMCDealer.com gmcdealer.com – 1
Honda honda.com – 1
Toyota Gazoo Racing toyotagazooracing.com – 1
Valvoline valvoline.com – 1
Total: 6
Insurance/Health
Allegheny Health Network AHN.org – 1
Liberty Mutual libertymutual.com – 1
UPMC upmc.com – 1
Total: 3
Wireless Phone
StraightTalk.com straighttalk.com – 1
Total: 1
Home Improvement
Spruce spruceit.com – 2
Total: 2
Financial
Paypal paypal.com – 1
Total: 1
Technology
Xfinity.com xfinity.com – 2
Amazon amazon.com – 1
Total: 3
Products/Services for the Home and Personal Use
Free Style Libre 3 freestyle.abbott/us-en/home.html – 3
Ozempic ozempic.com – 2
Mr Clean Magic Eraser – 1
Old Spice oldspice.com – 1
Trelegy trelegy.com – 1
Vraylar vraylar.com – 1
Total: 9
Travel
AirBNB.com – 1
Total: 1
Racing Related
KansasSpeedway.com kansasspeedway.com – 1
Total: 1
Race brdcast times: // Comm. brdcast times:
3:00 PM – 3:03 PM – 3 // 3:03 PM – 3:06 PM – 3
3:06 PM – 3:09 PM – 3 // 3:09 PM – 3:11 PM – 2
3:11 PM – 3:59 PM – 48 // 3:59 PM – 4:02 PM – 3
4:02 PM – 4:05 PM – 3 // 4:05 PM – 4:07 PM – 2
4:07 PM – 4:11 PM – 4 // 4:11 PM – 4:13 PM – 2
4:13 PM – 4:19 PM – 6 // 4:19 PM – 4:22 PM – 3
4:22 PM – 4:29 PM – 7 // 4:29 PM – 4:32 PM – 3
4:32 PM – 4:35 PM – 3 // 4:35 PM – 4:38 PM – 3
4:38 PM – 5:28 PM – 50 // 5:28 PM – 5:30 PM – 2
5:30 PM – 5:34 PM – 4 // 5:34 PM – 5:36 PM –2
5:36 PM – 6:32 PM – 56 // 6:32 PM – checkered flag
Total race brdcst time: 187 // Total comm. brdcst time: 28
Number of companies featured during broadcast: 24
(Jack Link’s jacklinks.com ; AMR Safety Team amr.net ; Chili’s; Hunt Bros Pizza; Wendy’s; Coca-Cola; Celsius; Busch Beer; Keystone Light; Ford; Toyota; GoodYear; Valvoline; GUNK gunk.com ; Progressive; Liberty Mutual; BuildSubmarines.com ; PODS; Ally Bank ally.com/Sweepstakes/NASCAR ; Xfinity; T-Mobile; Straight Talk; MLB on Fox; UFL ; IndyCar on Fox; NHRA; Kevin Harvick ‘Happy Hour’ podcast; Upcoming Craftsman Truck Series race; Upcoming Xfinity race; Upcoming Cup race)
Commercials during race broadcast: ‘Side-by-Side’ (‘Thank you!’ to all of the participating sponsors!)
3:29 PM – 3:32 PM
Ford; Ally Bank ; Busch Light; Applebee’s; T-Mobile; Progressive
3:35 PM – 3:38 PM
Liberty Mutual; Wendy’s; PODS; NASCAR Races on Amazon Prime, Coca-Cola, Busch Beer, Xfinity; Toyota Gazoo Racing; Chewy.com ; Wendy’s
3:43 PM – 3:46 PM
GoodYear; Papa John’s; Busch Light; Straight Talk; ACE Hardware; Golden Corral
3:50 PM –3:52 PM
PNC Bank; Applebee’s; Febreze; Xfinity; Ford; Liquid Death; NASCAR/Salutes
4:53 PM – 4:55 PM
Chili’s; Toyota Gazoo Racing ; NAPA; PNC Bank; Coffee Mate; MISpeedway.com
5:01 PM – 5:04 PM
Ally Bank ; Applebee’s; BREZTRI; Kohl’s ; Busch Light; T-Mobile; Chevy
5:09 PM – 5:11 PM
Progressive; Expedia; McDonald’s; Skechers; KubotaOrangeDays.com ; Gain; Paypal.com ; CarGurus.com
5:43 PM – 5:46 PM
Liberty Mutual; Wendy’s; Bounty; Valvoline; Keystone Light; Chewy.com ; Ford; IndyCar on Fox; Wendy’s
5:49 PM – 5:52 PM
Toyota All-Out
5:55 PM – 5:58 PM
WT.com ; Pizza Hut; Busch Light; ACE Hardware; Gordon Ramsay’s Secret Service on Fox; Craftsman Truck Series NASCAR.com/trucks ; MLB on Fox; Pizza Hut
6:02 PM – 6:05 PM
T-Mobile; Applebee’s; PNC Bank; Liquid Death; NASCAR Races on Amazon, Coca-Cola, Busch Beer, Xfinity; Papa John’s; UFL on Fox
6:20 PM – 6:23 PM
Straight Talk; Chili’s; Ally Bank; Ford; Progressive; Busch Light; NASCAR.com/FanRewards
6:25 PM – 6:28 PM
Toyota Gazoo Racing; Wendy’s; PODS; Liberty Mutual; Xfinity; Upcoming Cup race, Coca-Cola, Busch Beer, Xfinity, NASCAR.com/Tickets ; ‘The Masked Singer’ on Fox; Keystone Light; Wendy’s