How to track presidential race TV ads
Another TV commercial flashes across your television.
Instantly, you recognize it as a presidential attack ad: ominous music, unflattering photographs and, in all likelihood, a sponsor with some gobbledygook name — Right to Rise USA, Priorities USA Action, New Day for America, Keep the Promise.
As candidates claw their way through presidential primary season, the Center for Public Integrity is tracking and mapping who is on the air, and where, through a new app.
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This story is part of Buying of the President 2016. Tracking the candidates, political committees and nonprofits that are making this presidential election the most expensive in history. Click here to read more stories in this investigation.
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Advertising activities of political action committees, super PACs, parties, nonprofit groups and, of course, the candidates will be displayed, along with many of the TV ads themselves.
The app — which uses data from ad tracking firm Kantar Media/CMAG, video from the Internet Archive and reporting from Center for Public Integrity journalists — will be updated each Tuesday.
Some ads will be subject to Center for Public Integrity "Source Check" reviews, which aim to reveal the money and people behind tough-to-track political ads.
These "Source Check" articles will be easily accessible through the new app.
The app is the latest component of "Buying of the President 2016," the Center for Public Integrity's reporting project investigating the candidates and political groups responsible for making this presidential election the most expensive in history.
Send tips and insight into presidential campaign ads to tips@publicintegrity.org.
This story is part of Buying of the President 2016. Tracking the candidates, political committees and nonprofits that are making this presidential election the most expensive in history. Click here to read more stories in this investigation.
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Copyright 2016 The Center for Public Integrity. This story was published by The Center for Public Integrity, a nonprofit, nonpartisan investigative news organization in Washington, D.C.
