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The political intelligence desk for Kansas Scanning now · last 10/19 11:34 CT

All advertisers · Mike Kelly

The last 7 days and everything booked ahead. Spending from before that is left out until you ask.Include earlier spending

Mike Kelly unattributed first seen 07/19 19:00 CT ·

$3,500
ON FILE · LAST 7 DAYS & BOOKED AHEAD
—
TV/CABLE/RADIO PLANNED · GROSS
—
INVOICED
—
FEC FILED
$3,000–$3,500
DIGITAL RANGE

What is running now, what ran in the last 7 days and what is booked ahead — 2 earlier buys left out until you include earlier spending above. Station money is gross — what the advertiser is billed, not the smaller sum the station banks after the agency's commission; it is the figure the station quotes and the one a committee discloses to the FEC, so the two can be read against each other. Total on file is the larger of two reads of the same money: what the stations and platforms show (planned TV/cable/radio orders plus the high end of digital ranges) or what the committee has sworn to at the FEC (independent expenditures). The two are never added — an FEC expenditure for “television advertising” is the station orders it paid for. A floor, de-duped so order revisions, later invoices and amended filings are never counted twice (invoiced dollars are shown beside it, not added into it). Drill into every order behind it below or in the Library.

google_ads 3   ads and contracts ↗ · export ↗

Their ads 3 creatives seen · one tile per ad, not per station file or archive copy · all in the Library →

MKGoogle Google/YouTube video ad by Mike Kelly (2026-10-06)Google · 2026-10-06 MKGoogle Google/YouTube video ad by Mike Kelly (2026-07-21)Google · 2026-07-21 MKGoogle Google/YouTube video ad by Mike Kelly (2026-07-20)Google · 2026-07-20

Ad buys — broadcast & digital every buy: TV/cable/radio flights and Google/YouTube ads, newest first · filter by market or date; the total follows the filter

Planned by race: Issue Ad $3,500

flighttypestation · marketrace filed underspotsGRPplanned · spentinvoiced
2026-10-06 – 2026-10-19Google/YouTubeMike Kelly
targets 66013,Kansas,United States, 66018,Kansas,United States, 66021,Kansas,U · 300,000 impr
Issue Ad——$3,000–$3,500
spent so far
n/a
Total ————

Broadcast (TV/cable/radio): planned = the station order (largest revision, counted once); invoiced = what the station later billed, shown beside planned and not added to it. Both are gross — what the advertiser pays, the figure the station quotes and the one a committee discloses to the FEC; where a filing breaks out the net, the order's own page shows what reached the station and what the agency kept. Spots = occurrences, how many times the ad airs on the flight, from the station's own schedule where the file was readable — a floor, and a dash means the schedule was scanned or unread, not zero airings. Digital (Google/YouTube): spend is the platform's own range — the high end is the floor the app counts, and it is added into the planned total; impressions and the geography each ad targeted or delivered to stand in for a station. Digital is Kansas-level (no media-market split) and carries no spots, GRP or invoice. The flight dates tell you which fight a buy was really for.

Who Mike Kelly reaches every current or upcoming buy, all races · air and platforms together, weighted by money

All of this advertiser's measured money is digital ($3,500); 33% of that audience is under 35 and 33% is 55 or older.

33%
AGE 18-34
34%
AGE 35-54
16%
AGE 55-64
17%
AGE 65+

No broadcast flight here carries a readable schedule, so the figures above are the digital buying alone. Digital is Meta’s own reported delivery where the ad carries it (0% of the digital money), and the platform’s reachable Kansas audience otherwise. Media are blended by money; a digital dollar buys more impressions than a broadcast one, so the blend understates the young rather than overstating them. The method and its sources ↗

What we know

Nothing beyond the filings yet.

Pickup since first seen: 0 news/social items · see them →

Timeline 3 items, newest first · sort or expand

sevitemposted
LOW Ad Google/YouTube video ad by Mike Kelly (2026-10-06)
google_ads by Mike Kelly
runs 10/06–10/19
posted 10/05 19:00 CT
seen 10/09 04:32 CT
3d after
MED Ad Google/YouTube video ad by Mike Kelly (2026-07-21)
google_ads by Mike Kelly
runs 07/21–08/04
posted 07/20 19:00 CT
seen 09/27 00:27 CT
68d after
MED Ad Google/YouTube video ad by Mike Kelly (2026-07-20)
google_ads by Mike Kelly
runs 07/20–08/04
posted 07/19 19:00 CT
seen 09/27 00:27 CT
69d after