Commercial breakdown: 2022 Bass Pro Shops Night Race

The MRO children singing ‘The National Anthem’ is truly a sweet way to start off a race at Bristol Motor Speedway. That was the case on Sunday, but it was probably the last sweet thing for the rest of the day. Once the race began, it was tire failures, spins, body damage, and desperation, with good and bad luck sprinkled randomly over the teams and drivers. For fans watching at home, it was all of that and commercials, too. For those fans who 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 Bass Pro Shops Night Race

Start time to record race/commercial periods: 7:30 PM
End time to record race/commercial periods: 10:54 PM
Total minutes of complete race broadcast: 204
Minutes of race broadcast: 176
Minutes of traditional commercials: 28
Minutes of side-by-side commercials: 7

Total number of commercials: 98
Total number of companies or entities advertised: 79
Total number of traditional commercials (not split-screen): 73
Total number of companies or entities advertised: 45
Total number of ‘Side-by-Side’ commercials during the broadcast (split-screen): 25
Total number of companies or entities advertised: 20
Number of times USA utilized ‘Side-by-Side’ commercials during the broadcast: 4

Companies seen the most in commercials during this broadcast: Geico (7 times); Xfinity (7 times); CarGurus (5 times); Carvana (4 times); Coca-Cola (4 times); Sonic; (4 times); Toyota (4 times); Mountain Dew (4 times)

Breakdown of what the commercials were, by category:

NBC/USA TV Previews/Promos:

‘Race for the Championship’ on USA – 3
‘Monday Night Raw’ usanetwork.com/wwe-raw – 2
‘Quantum Leap’ nbc.com/quantum-leap – 2
Upcoming Cup race on NBC/NBC Sports Coca-Cola, Busch Beer, Xfinity, Geico NASCAR.com/tickets – 1
Soccer on USA & Peacock – 1
‘Chucky’ on USA & SyFy – 1
‘Snake in the Grass’ usanetwork.com/snake-in-the-grass – 1

Total: 11

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

Tractor Brothers tractorbrothers.com & Mahindra mahindrausa.com (Tony Stewart, Chase Briscoe) – 3
PA Lottery palottery.state.pa.us/ – 2
C Harper Chevy East CHarperChevyEast.com – 1
Jim Shorkey Murrysville Chevy jimshorkeymurrysvillechevy.com – 1
Perfect Power Wash perfectpowerwash.com – 1

Total: 8

Restaurants/Food

McDonald’s mcdonalds.com – 2
Mountain Dew mountaindew.com/ – 2
Sonic sonicdrivein.com – 2
Coca-Cola cocacola.com – 2
Applebees applebees.com – 1
IHOP ihop.com – 1

Total: 10

Car/Truck/Bike

CarGurus.com – 5
Carvana.com carvana.com – 2
ebay motors ebay.com – 2
Toyota toyota.com – 2
Vroom vroom.com – 2
NAPA napaonline.com/ – 2
Die Hard batteries diehard.com and Advance Auto advanceautoparts.com – 1
Ford ford.com – 1
GoodYear goodyear.com – 1
Safe Lite safelite.com – 1
Buyatoyota.com buyatoyota.com – 1
Toyota toyota.com (Christopher Bell) – 1

Total: 21

Insurance/Health

Geico.com geico.com – 3
USAA.com Safe Pilot usaa.com/safepilot – 2
Progressive progressive.com – 1

Total: 6

Wireless Phone

T-Mobile t-mobile.com/ – 3
Verizon/Frontline Verizon.com/frontline – 1

Total: 4

Home Improvement

Northern Tool & Equipment northerntool.com – 1

Total: 1

Financial

Ally Bank allybank.com – 1
Bank of America/CustomizedCash bankofamerica.com/CustomizedCash – 1
Capital One capitalone.com – 1

Total: 3

Technology

Xfinity.com xfinity.com – 3
Amazon amazon.com – 1
Points Bet join.pointsbet.com – 1

Total: 5

Products/Services for the Home and Personal Use

Breztri breztri.com – 1
Rinvoq rinvoq.com – 1
Skechers skechers.com – 1

Total: 3

Racing Related

Talladega Superspeedway talladegasuperspeedway.com/ – 1

Total: 1

Race brdcast times: // Comm. brdcast times:

7:30 PM – 7:33 PM – 3 // 7:33 PM – 7:35 PM – 2
7:35 PM – 7:42 PM – 7 // 7:42 PM – 7:44 PM – 2
7:44 PM – 8:01 PM – 17 // 8:01 PM – 8:03 PM – 2
8:03 PM – 8:07 PM – 4 // 8:07 PM – 8:09 PM – 2
8:09 PM – 8:17 PM – 8 // 8:17 PM – 8:19 PM – 2
8:19 PM – 8:25 PM – 6 // 8:25 PM – 8:26 PM – 1
8:26 PM – 8:35 PM – 9 // 8:35 PM – 8:37 PM – 2
8:37 PM – 8:38 PM – 1 // 8:38 PM – 8:40 PM – 2
8:40 PM – 8:45 PM – 5 // 8:45 PM – 8:47 PM – 2
8:47 PM – 9:05 PM – 18 // 9:05 PM – 9:07 PM – 2
9:07 PM – 9:16 PM – 9 // 9:16 PM – 9:18 PM – 2
9:18 PM – 9:26 PM – 8 // 9:26 PM – 9:27 PM – 1
9:27 PM – 9:29 PM – 2 // 9:29 PM – 9:30 PM – 1
9:30 PM – 9:39 PM – 9 // 9:39 PM – 9:40 PM – 1
9:40 PM – 9:47 PM – 7 // 9:47 PM – 9:48 PM – 1
9:48 PM – 10:11 PM – 23 // 10:11 PM – 10:12 PM – 1
10:12 PM – 10:37 PM – 25 // 10:37 PM – 10:39 PM – 2
10:39 PM – 10:54 PM – 15 // 10:54 PM – checkered flag

Total race brdcst time: 176 // Total comm. brdcst time: 28

Number of companies featured during broadcast: 25
(Dale Jr Foundation thedalejrfoundation.org ; Blue Oval City facebook.com/blueovalcity ; AMR Safety Team amr.net ; Bass Pro Shops basspro.com ; Hunt Bros. Pizza; Cheddar’s Scratch Kitchen ; Sonic; Applebee’s; Coca-Cola; Monster Energy; Busch Beer; Ford Performance; Toyota; Mahindra Tractors; Northern Tool; GoodYear; Sunoco; Geico; Liberty Mutual; Money Lion moneylion.com ; Credit One Bank; Xfinity; ‘Quantum Leap’ on NBC; Sunday Night Football on NBC & Peacock ; NASCAR.com/FordPlayoffsPromo ; NASCAR.com/Mobile ; NASCAR Tracks app)

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

8:58 PM – 9:00 PM
Xfinity; Mountain Dew; Verizon/FrontLine ; Geico; Applebee’s; CharlotteMotorSpeedway.com

9:58 PM – 10:00 PM
Geico; Bank of America/CustomizedCash ; Sonic; Carvana; Upcoming Cup race, Coca-Cola, Busch Beer, Geico, Xfinity, NASCAR.com/Tickets ; Sunday Night Football on NBC & Peacock ; ‘Snake in the Grass’ on USA

10:18 PM – 10:20 PM
Xfinity; Bank of America/CustomizedCash ; Applebee’s; Carvana; Homestead-MiamiSpeedway.com ; ‘La Brea’ on NBC & Peacock; ‘Snake in the Grass’ on USA

10:32 PM – 10:33 PM
Progressive; Sonic; Ram Trucks; Mountain Dew; Propane.com