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Biden Continues to Dominate Advertising 2020 ElectionsReleases

Biden Continues to Dominate Advertising

TV Shatters Records, Dems Lead Ad War in All Top Senate Races   Report Highlights President Top TV spenders in the presidential race (Table 1) Digital spending by Trump and Biden (Table 2) Compare geographic spend on TV (Figure 1) and Facebook (Figure 3) Tone of presidential TV ads (Figures 6 and 7) US Senate Top TV spenders in US Senate races (Table 5) Digital spending in US Senate races (Table 6) Top issues in US Senate TV ads (Table 8) US House Top TV spenders in US House races (Table 10) Digital spending in US House races (Table 11)…
Wesleyan Media Project
October 15, 2020
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Dems Dominate Ad Spending Up and Down Ballot 2020 ElectionsReleases

Dems Dominate Ad Spending Up and Down Ballot

Photo: Gage Skidmore/Flickr Biden up big in ad war,overtakes Trump in recent digital spend   Report Highlights President Top TV spenders in the presidential race (Table 1) Biden overtakes Trump in digital advertising (Table 2) Pro-Biden ads outnumber pro-Trump ads in all top media markets (Table 3) Map of presidential candidate TV ad airings (Figure 1) and interactive map of Facebook advertising (Figure 2) Pro-Trump ads much more negative than ads for Biden (Figure 3) Biden stresses pandemic, healthcare; Trump talks jobs, immigration (Table 4) US Senate Dems lead ad race in all top Senate contests (Table 5) Digital ad…
Wesleyan Media Project
October 1, 2020
Trump Shifts Focus From Crime to Jobs 2020 ElectionsReleases

Trump Shifts Focus From Crime to Jobs

Photo: Thru_the_Glass/Flickr Jobs, Business, Taxes Top Trump Issues in TV Ads; Biden Focuses on Virus   (MIDDLETOWN, CT) September 17, 2020 – A new analysis from the Wesleyan Media Project finds that, at least on television, Donald Trump’s advertising has shifted away from his almost exclusive focus on crime and protests (as highlighted in our August 12 report) to more “bread and butter” Republican issues. Over the past five weeks, Trump’s ads have focused on jobs, business and taxes, with each issue appearing in over half of his ads (Table 1). Immigration has also been highlighted by the Trump campaign,…
Wesleyan Media Project
September 17, 2020
TV Ads Favor Biden 2:1 in Last Month 2020 ElectionsReleases

TV Ads Favor Biden 2:1 in Last Month

Photo: Becker1999/Flickr Record Breaking Volume of US House and US Senate Airings   (MIDDLETOWN, CT) September 9, 2020 – A new analysis from the Wesleyan Media Project, in partnership with the Center for Responsive Politics, shows that pro-Biden television ads have dominated the presidential race in the past month. Since August 10, Joe Biden and his group supporters have aired 106,000 television ads at a cost of $58.9 million compared to 57,000 ads at a cost of $35.8 million for Trump and his group supporters (Table 1). Biden’s campaign has put up 92,000 ad airings (at a cost of almost…
Wesleyan Media Project
September 9, 2020
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