A system and method receive a first signal at one or more processors of a promotional system that indicates automatic detection of presentation of a commercial, determine one or more online advertising settings associated with at least one of a product, service, or entity of interest in the commercial that was detected, and determine a current setting for the one or more online advertising settings from a search engine system. The online advertising settings are associated with a website of interest of the at least one of the product, service, or entity of interest. The system and method also send a second signal to the search engine system that temporarily changes the one or more online advertising settings during a time period following detection of the presentation of the commercial.