Political advertising spending during the U.S. presidential elections in 2012-2016
This statistic shows the political advertising spending during the presidential elections in the United States in 2012 and 2016. In the 2016 presidential elections, political ad spend amounted to 9.84 billion U.S. dollars. An increase in comparison to 2012, when 9.41 billion U.S. dollars was spent on political ads.