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46 days to polling day

Your district votes on 3 November. Reach it before it does.

Statewide advertising spends most of its budget on people who cannot vote for you. Everything below is aimed at one thing: putting your candidate in front of the households inside your district — on the televisions they stream, the screens they drive past and the phones in their pockets.

46

Days to polling day

Tuesday 3 November 2026

14 of 17

Paid channels open to political advertising

Amazon, LinkedIn and TikTok do not take it

800,000+

Mobile impressions against one district's address list

A state senate primary. Won with 53% of the vote.

We are nonpartisan, and the work is identical either way.

We take candidate campaigns across the spectrum. A district boundary is a district boundary, a voter file is a list of addresses, and a streaming household is a streaming household. Nothing in the targeting, the inventory or the reporting changes with the letter after a name, and we do not take a position on the races we run. We work with candidate campaigns only — not PACs, not ballot measures, not issue advocacy.

What is open

What a campaign can run, and where it cannot.

14 of the 17 channels in our matrix accept political advertising. 3 do not, and no budget changes that. Better to read it before a plan is built on it than after.

Open to political advertising

  • Display
  • Video
  • Native (display)
  • Native (video)
  • Meta
  • Geo-Targeted Mobile
  • Connected TV
  • Social Mirror
  • Social Mirror on CTV
  • YouTube
  • Online Audio
  • Google Ads
  • Digital Out-of-Home
  • Performance Max

Will not take it

  • Amazon
  • LinkedIn
  • TikTok

A blanket category refusal, not a targeting limit. There is no budget, no relationship and no creative that gets a candidate onto these three.

The caveats that bear on a campaign

  • Every restricted category has its own rules about ad content. We can check creative with the exchanges before launch rather than after a rejection.
  • California, Washington State and Nevada do not allow geo-fencing of medical facilities with any product. Maryland, New Jersey, Virginia, Connecticut and Oregon place heavy restrictions on location-based mobile targeting.
  • No website retargeting is available for any health-related website on location-based mobile.
  • Google and YouTube apply state-by-state rules to political advertising in Idaho, Maryland, Nevada, New Jersey, Washington and Virginia.
The verdict, channel by channel
DisplayYes
VideoYes
Native (display)Yes
Native (video)Yes
MetaYes
Geo-Targeted MobileYes
Connected TVYes
Social MirrorYes
Social Mirror on CTVYes
YouTubeYes
Online AudioYes
Google AdsYes
AmazonNo
LinkedInNo
TikTokNo
Digital Out-of-HomeYes
Performance MaxYes

Platform policy changes without notice, and this reflects the matrix as it stood when the page was built. Every restricted category has its own rules about ad content. We can check creative with the exchanges before launch rather than after a rejection.

The calendar

46 days, and that is the generous reading.

Polling day is not the deadline. Early voting opens in many states weeks beforehand, so the last useful day to reach a voter is the day their ballot leaves the house — and that day is different in every state and, in some, in every county. A plan built backwards from a postal ballot looks nothing like one built backwards from 3 November.

Needs creative and a map, and nothing else

Connected TV, Digital Out-of-Home, location-based mobile, streaming audio, display, native and video. If the creative is approved, these are a trafficking job rather than a build.

Needs one step first

Social Mirror is built from a post you have already published, so there has to be one worth running. YouTube needs the campaign to already have a YouTube channel. Both are quick. Neither is instant, and neither is a guaranteed launch date.

Targeting

A district is a list of addresses. Advertise to the list.

Most political media is bought by media market, which is the wrong shape. A market spills across the district line in every direction and bills you for everyone outside it. These are the 7 methods we use to get back to the boundary you are actually running in.

  • Address & Household Targeting

    Advertise to specific street addresses.

    What it is for

    Campaigns aimed at a known list of buildings — a voter file, a service territory, a set of businesses, the households a direct mail drop went to.

    A senate campaign served over 800,000 mobile impressions against an address list for the district.

  • Geo-Fencing & Geo-Retargeting

    Draw a shape on a map. Advertise to the phones inside it.

    What it is for

    Reaching people by where they physically go. We pick an area and then market to mobile devices in that boundary.

    A roofing company fenced the areas its crews were actively working and ran at a 1.01% click-through rate on that targeting alone.

  • Custom Audiences & Lookalikes

    Upload your customer list. Advertise to them, and to people who resemble them.

    What it is for

    Two jobs at once — winning back people you already know, and finding new people who look statistically like your best customers rather than like your general market.

    A dealership matched its own service customers, and the resulting offer redeemed at 9%.

  • Behavioural Targeting

    Advertise to people based on what they actually do online, not who they are on paper.

    What it is for

    Finding people in market right now. Demographics tell you someone is 35 and owns a home; behaviour tells you they have been reading about replacement windows for a fortnight.

    A dealership targeted in-market auto shoppers down to specific models and finished at four times the national click-through average.

  • Cross-Platform Sequencing

    Reach the same person on one channel, then meet them again on another.

    What it is for

    Repetition that does not feel like repetition. Someone reached twice across different contexts converts at a materially different rate than someone reached twice in the same feed.

    A university merchandise retailer sequenced mobile into social and recorded over 8,300 view-through conversions.

  • Website Retargeting

    Follow the people who visited your site and left without doing anything.

    What it is for

    The cheapest audience you will ever buy, because they already came to you once. Most visitors leave without converting, and this is the only way to get a second attempt at them.

    A festival retargeted everyone who looked at the ticket page and did not buy, and recorded 12,937 conversions in seven weeks.

  • Identity Resolution

    Find out who your anonymous website visitors actually are.

    What it is for

    Turning traffic you already paid for into named, addressable people — then advertising to them, emailing them, or handing them to sales.

    A medical clinic identified around 3,000 visitor profiles in 30 days, and 80% could be matched and reached online.

Results

What this looked like in two district races.

Both are this agency's own client work, described by office rather than by name, exactly as the campaign records have them. Every figure is the one in the record — nothing rounded up, averaged, or combined with another campaign. Neither result is a promise about yours.

Political

A senate primary campaign closed with screens and phones in the same districts

A state senate candidate needed saturation inside specific districts in the closing days before a primary.

  • Mobile ads served against an address list for the senate district
  • Digital Out-of-Home screens across the same geography for the final push
Mobile impressions
800,000+
Clicks
3,860
Out-of-Home impressions by Super Tuesday
25,064
Outcome
Won with 53% of the vote

Political

A judicial nominee won her primary by 25,000 votes

A circuit court judge nominee needed name recognition across a district inside a primary window.

  • Video and Connected TV against the district's electorate
Click-through rate
1.27%
Video completion
Over 65% watched to 100%
Outcome
Won the primary by 25,000 votes
The inventory

Reaching a voter who is not looking for you.

11 channels a district campaign can use, with what you are buying and where it runs. Each has its own page carrying the inventory, the targeting and the results behind it.

AI search

Ask an assistant who is running in your district. Then read the answer.

Undecided voters research candidates, and increasingly they ask ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity or Google's AI Overviews rather than open ten links. Whatever comes back is assembled from what those systems can reach, read and quote — and for most campaign sites that is a page rendered in JavaScript they cannot read at all, plus whatever coverage happens to be indexed, including your opponent's.

The audit is free and runs from public data only. It checks whether an assistant can reach your site, whether it can read it without running JavaScript, whether there is a passage worth quoting, what your structured data and agent files say, and which off-site sources already carry you. A person runs it and replies. It is a measurement, not a promise: nobody can guarantee what an assistant says about a candidate, and we do not.

Scope

Where our job stops.

We are a media agency. We buy, place and report on advertising. We are not lawyers, and nothing on this page is legal, FEC or state campaign-finance advice — including the platform policy summarised above it.

The “paid for by” disclaimer is yours. Your counsel decides what it says and where it goes. We will not run creative without the disclaimer you supply, and we will not advise you on what it should be.

Political advertiser verification and registration, on the platforms that require it, is completed by the campaign in the campaign's name. We will tell you which platforms ask for it and when to start. We cannot complete it for you.

And we do not promise outcomes. No agency can hand you a vote share, and we do not price or report as though we could. What we can show you is what is above: what we ran, what it delivered, and what the record says happened next.

Questions

Questions campaigns ask.

Which advertising platforms will not accept political advertising?
Amazon, LinkedIn and TikTok refuse the category outright, and no budget changes that. The other 14 channels in our matrix accept it, subject to each platform's own political advertiser verification, which the campaign completes in its own name.
Do Google and YouTube treat political advertising differently in some states?
Yes. Google and YouTube apply state-by-state rules to political advertising in Idaho, Maryland, Nevada, New Jersey, Washington and Virginia. Separately, Maryland, New Jersey, Virginia, Connecticut and Oregon place heavy restrictions on location-based mobile targeting, which is the channel a district campaign leans on hardest.
Can you target one legislative district rather than a whole state?
Two ways, and they combine. An address list — a voter file is a list of buildings, and buildings are addressable. And a shape drawn on a map, which advertises to the phones inside it. A senate campaign in our records served over 800,000 mobile impressions against an address list for the district. Certain state restrictions apply to geo-fencing, address targeting and visit tracking.
Do you work with candidates from both parties?
Yes. We are nonpartisan and the work is identical either way — a district boundary does not know who drew it, and a voter file is a list of addresses whoever is mailing it. We do not write your message or take a position on it. We work with candidate campaigns only, not PACs, ballot measures or issue advocacy.
Who is responsible for the “paid for by” disclaimer?
Your campaign and its counsel. We are a media agency, not lawyers, and we will not advise you on what the disclaimer should say or where it goes. We will not run creative without the disclaimer you supply.
How late can a campaign start and still be in market?
Connected TV, Digital Out-of-Home, location-based mobile, streaming audio, display and video need approved creative and a map, and nothing else. Two need a set-up step first: Social Mirror is built from a post you have already published, so there has to be one worth running, and YouTube needs the campaign to already have a YouTube channel. None of that is a guaranteed launch date.

46 days. Let us look at your district.

Tell us the office, the boundary and the budget, and we will come back with what we would run and why. No account, nothing charged, and a person prices it.

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