Commercial breakdown: 2021 Busch Clash at Daytona

To the great relief of NASCAR fans, the 2021 racing season has begun.  The Busch Clash at Daytona race was a wild one, whetting everyone’s appetite for more.  Along with the unexpected during Tuesday night’s race (for instance, that bus stop that befuddled more than one driver), came the expected:  commercials.  If you wish to know how many there were, and other stats, please read on.

Race and Commercial Breakdown of the 2021 Busch Clash at Daytona

Start time to record race/commercial periods: 7:00 PM
End time to record race/commercial periods: 8:45 PM
Total minutes of complete race broadcast: 105
Minutes of race broadcast: 79
Minutes of traditional commercials: 26

Total number of commercials: 71
Total number of companies or entities advertised: 42

Companies seen the most in commercials during this broadcast:  Xfinity (6 times); McDonald’s (3 times); Busch Beer (3 times); Toyota (3 times); Progressive (3 times)

Breakdown of what the commercials were, by category:

Fox/FS1

‘Race Hub’ foxsports.com/nascar/racehub – 2
Bassmaster Elite Series bassmaster.com on Fox Sports – 2
Upcoming Xfinity race on foxsports.com/nascar – 2
Daytona 500 on Fox foxsports.com/nascar/daytona-500 Coca-Cola, Geico, Xfinity, Busch Beer – 2
Camping World Truck Series on FS1 – 1
Fox Bet Super 6 app foxsports.com/app – 1
Fox Nation nation.fox.com – 1
‘Friday Night Smackdown’ fox.com/wwe-friday-night-smackdown – 1
‘Race Day’ foxsports.com/nascar @RaceDayonFox – 1

Total: 13

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

Auggies Beer Warehouse facebook.com/AuggiesBeerWarehouse – 2
C Harper Chevy CHarperChevy.com – 1

Total: 3

Restaurants/Food

McDonald’s mcdonalds.com – 3
Little Caesars littlecaesars.com – 2
Marcos Pizza marcos.com – 2
Subway Subway.com – 2
Coke Zero cokezero.com/ – 2
Five Hour Energy Drink #5HEwin fivehour.com – 2
Kraft Cheese kraftrecipes.com/brands/kraftcheese/products/20001/products – 1
Pizza Hut pizzahut.com/ – 1
Dr. Pepper drpepper.com – 1

Total: 16

Beer/Alcohol

Busch busch.com – 3

Total: 3

Car/Truck/Bike

Ram Trucks ram.com – 2
JohnDeere.com/iseries johndeere.com/iseries – 2
Toyota toyota.com – 2
Toyota toyota.com (Kyle Busch) – 1
Chevy chevy.com – 1

Total: 8

Insurance/Health

Progressive progressive.com – 3
UPMC upmc.com – 2
USAA.com usaa.com – 2
Geico.com geico.com – 2
Liberty Mutual libertymutual.com – 2
NURX.com – 1

Total: 12

Wireless Phone

Cricket mycricket.com – 2
Xfinity Mobile xfinitymobile.com – 2

Total: 4

Financial

QuickBooks.com quickbooks.com – 2

Total: 2

Technology

Amazon amazon.com – 2
IBM ibm.com – 2
Verizon/5G verizon.com/5G – 2
Xfinity/NASCAR xfinity.com/nascar – 1

Total: 7

Products/Services for the Home and Personal Use

Get Roman getroman.com/tv – 1
BuyNotch.com – 1

Total: 2

Racing Related

Daytona International Speedway daytonainternationalspeedway.com/ – 1

Total: 1

Race brdcast times:      Comm. brdcast times:

7:00 PM – 7:04 PM – 4      7:04 PM – 7:07 PM – 3
7:07 PM – 7:22 PM – 15      7:22 PM – 7:25 PM – 3
7:25 PM – 7:30 PM – 5      7:30 PM – 7:34 PM – 4
7:34 PM – 7:36 PM – 2      7:36 PM – 7:39 PM – 3
7:39 PM – 7:51 PM – 12      7:51 PM – 7:55 PM – 4
7:55 PM – 7:57 PM – 2      7:57 PM – 7:59 PM – 2
7:59 PM – 8:09 PM – 10      8:09 PM – 8:12 PM – 3
8:12 PM – 8:16 PM – 4      8:16 PM – 8:17 PM – 1
8:17 PM –8:32 PM – 15      8:32 PM – 8:35 PM – 3
8:35 PM – 8:45 PM – 10      8:45 PM – checkered flag

Total race brdcst time: 79      Total comm. brdcst time: 26

Number of companies featured during broadcast: 13
(Fox Bet Super 6 app; Daytona 500 Qualifying on FS1, Daytona 500 on Fox Sports; Monster Energy; Wendy’s; Busch Beer, Busch Light Beer, @BuschBeer #HandonRV ; Ford Performance; Geico; Advent Health; Credit One Bank; Guaranteed Rate; R P Funding rpfunding.com ; Xfinity; AMR Safety Team)