Editor's note: Here's the eighth installment of the 2016 Presidential Campaign Ad Scorecard, a comprehensive view of spending across broadcast, cable and satellite TV as well as radio. The charts below represent a collaboration between the Ad Age Datacenter -- specifically, Kevin Brown, Bradley Johnson and Catherine Wolf -- and Kantar Media's Campaign Media Analysis Group (CMAG). Some context from Ad Age's Simon Dumenco follows. --Ken Wheaton
• The headline on our last scorecard was "Pro-Hillary Clinton PAC Spending on TV and Radio Ads Surges." What's the right word to use this time? Maybe explodes. Last time the total TV and radio ad spending by the Clinton campaign ($51,124,151) and pro-Hillary PACs and advocacy groups ($11,539,184) was $62.7 million. What a difference a week makes. Now, the total TV and radio ad spending by the Clinton campaign ($52,460,541) and pro-Hillary PACs and advocacy groups ($62,554,298) is $115.0 million.
• Our tallies include advance bookings through Nov. 7.
• Thanks to support from PACs and advocacy groups, Hillary Clinton has now blown past both Jeb Bush (the previous No. 1) and Marco Rubio (the previous No. 2).
• That said, the amount ($75,602,270) spent on TV and radio ads by pro-Jeb PACs and advocacy groups during his ill-fated campaign still exceeds the amount ($62,554,298) spent on TV and radio ads by pro-Hillary PACs and advocacy groups.
Scroll down below the charts for some additional important notes...
| Presidential Campaigns | Ad Spend by Candidate | Ad Spend by PACs* | Total | PACs and advocacy groups* | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hillary Clinton | $52,460,541 | $62,554,298 |
$115,014,839
|
NARAL Pro-choice America; Priorities USA Action |
| 2 | Jeb Bush | $4,620,417 | $75,602,270 |
$80,222,687
|
Right to Rise USA |
| 3 | Marco Rubio | $17,666,300 | $52,582,834 |
$70,249,134
|
American Opportunity PAC; Baby Got PAC; Conservative Solutions PAC; Conservative Solutions Project |
| 4 | Bernie Sanders | $59,165,491 | $433,079 |
$59,598,570
|
Communications Workers of America; Friends of the Earth Action, National Nurses United for Patient Protection |
| 5 | Ted Cruz | $15,174,424 | $17,705,202 |
$32,879,626
|
Courageous Conservatives PAC; Keep the Promise I and III; Lone Star Committee; Stand for Truth; Stand for Truth PAC; Trusted Leadership PAC; Wisconsin Right to Life Victory Fund |
| 6 | Anti-Donald Trump** | $24,886,832 |
$24,886,832
|
American Future Fund; Club for Growth; Club for Growth Action; Make America Awesome; Our Principles PAC | |
| 7 | John Kasich | $3,159,442 | $15,506,136 |
$18,665,578
|
New Day for America; New Day Independent Media Committee |
| 8 | Chris Christie | $771,006 | $17,708,961 |
$18,479,967
|
America Leads |
| 9 | Donald Trump | $18,028,306 | $24,780 |
$18,053,086
|
Florida for Trump; Great America PAC |
| 10 | Ben Carson | $5,356,382 | $410,603 |
$5,766,985
|
Black America's PAC Action Fund; Our Children's Future; The 2016 Committee |
Source: Ad Age analysis of data from Kantar Media's CMAG.
Spending and ad buys (future buys subject to change) for president campaigns from April 5, 2015, through Nov. 7, 2016, as of April 7, 2016.
Pay structures differ for candidates and PACs. Candidates pay the lowest unit rate. PACs pay whatever the market will bear.
*Includes political action committees and advocacy groups. **Some of the PACs listed as opposed to Donald Trump also spent money related to other candidates' campaigns.
• As always, our charts, which were designed by Ad Age Digital Content Producer Chen Wu, are interactive. Click on the arrows in the first chart to sort and resort. And hover over the second chart to get drill-down data. You can also select and deselect individual candidates (by clicking on the color blocks next to their names) in the second chart to include or exclude them from view.
• As previously noted, because we take a cumulative view of ad spending (starting April 5, 2015), the dropouts -- Jeb Bush, Ben Carson, Chris Christie and Marco Rubio -- are still included. This week, however, we've focused the second chart -- which tracks spending over time -- on just the five major candidates still in the race, so relatively modest spender Trump replaces dropout Rubio.
