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Which firms get paid by campaigns? The ad makers, media buyers, pollsters and consultants that campaigns and super PACs pay.

Watchdog · Who gets paid

The firms behind the ads.

Every dollar a campaign or super PAC spends ends up with someone: media buyers, ad makers, mail houses, pollsters and consultants. These are the 54 biggest payees we can trace, $171M in all.

Same firm on both sides of a race? That shows up here.

Payments are the largest disbursements reported by each group or campaign, from public compilations of FEC filings and from Ledger. A firm paid by a super PAC is doing ordinary work; this list shows who, not wrongdoing.