Who booked political airtime this week

Digital ad buys in testing; in the API first

Streaming television and audio have no public record. Online platforms publish their own libraries of the ads they count as political. We copy them and show them beside what the committees filed as advertising.

Google publishes per-ad spend and impressions as buckets, so those figures are bounds, not exact amounts. Snap publishes exact figures. We match an advertiser to a committee by the id it declares, or by its "paid for by" name when the decoder finds an exact match or a known alias; a looser match stays a lead, not a link. Money that reaches a platform through a media agency is filed under the agency's name and stays under the agency's name here.

The past week, by service

84,897 political-file uploads dated in the last 7 days across all services. Click a service to show only that service. A zero covers only the dates in the coverage table below: it means we found no uploads, not that no ads were bought.

Who booked, in the stations' own words folder labels as the stations wrote them

Only uploads filed inside a race folder carry an advertiser label, so only those can appear here. Uploads a station filed at the office or race level name no buyer; those are counted in the table above, not listed here. Folder labels are each station's own words, as filed. The same buyer can appear under several spellings, and a label is not a committee. Matching labels to FEC committees is not finished. The filed-under column shows the folder above the advertiser, as filed; stations file under office names, market names, or both. Where a reviewed match links a folder to a candidate, the federal race page shows these uploads beside that race's FEC filings. You can reach any race through members or the search box above.

Latest uploads newest first, links to the FCC file

For another slice (state, call sign, category, part of a candidate's name, dates), build a query.

Coverage what we have collected

We collect the FCC files nightly (latest upload 2026-10-21). The FEC bulk data is dated 2026-10-18 and updates more slowly, so a fresh upload beside an older FEC date is expected.

Probed, none: we checked the station and the FCC has no political file for it. Never probed: we have not checked it yet, so we say nothing about it.