Race and Commercial breakdown: 2025 Jack Link's 500
04/28/2025 07:05 AM
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
