Politics

Photo: Gage Skidmore/Flickr Pro-Dem Ad Advantages Up and Down the Ballot;Republican Airings More Negative   Report Highlights President Biden and Trump spending by medium (Table 1) Top TV spenders in the presidential race (Table 2) Digital spending by Trump and Biden (Table 3) TV Spending by media market (Table 4, Figure 1, and compared to 2016 in Figure 2) Facebook spending by geography (Figure 4) U.S. Senate Top TV spenders in U.S. Senate races (Table 6) Digital and TV spending in U.S. Senate races (Table 7) Tone of U.S. Senate races (Table 8, Figure 8, and Figure 9) Top issues…

Photo: Gage Skidmore/Flickr Phoenix Top Media Market Cycle-to-Date   (MIDDLETOWN, CT) October 21, 2020 – A new brief report from the Wesleyan Media Project finds record levels of television advertising in the 2020 campaigns. Over 4.9 million ads have aired in federal races (House, Senate and president) on broadcast and national cable television since January of 2019 (Figure 1). That volume is more than twice the volume of ad airings in the 2012 and 2016 presidential election cycles—and well above the previously record-setting mid-term election ad volumes in 2018.   Figure 1: Volume of Federal Advertising by Cycle (2012-2020) Numbers…

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…