INVICTUS ADVERTISING

vendor · #6 of 310 in Pennsylvania · U.S. Senate · 2024all Schedule E rows for this payee on fec.gov ↗
filed asINVICTUS ADVERTISING

inferred · rule case/punctuation/suffix normalisation + token-set ≥0.92 (numeric tokens must match); aliases filefec.gov ↗

Paid in this race
$9.4M
4.0% of outside spending
Buys
21
Oct 30, 2023 – Oct 15, 2024
Spenders
1
committees reporting payments
Top medium
TV
88% of dollars

By medium

TVproduction
TV 88%
$8.2M 15 buys
production 12%
$1.1M 6 buys

Medium is classified from the purpose the spender filed; the FEC does not record which buy placed which ad.

inferred · rule Medium is classified from the purpose string the spender filed on Schedule E, by an ordered keyword table (first match wins, keywords matched at word starts): production: produc, creative, design, videograph, photograph, filming; digital: digital, online, internet, web, social, streaming, email, youtube, facebook, google, meta, gif; radio: radio; tv: tv, television, broadcast, cable, media buy, media placement; mail: mail, postage, postcard, print; phones: phone, text, sms, robocall, call, dial, teleconferenc; consulting: poll, research, consult, strateg, list, targeting, voter file; field: canvass, door, field, gotv; other: no match. The FEC does not record which buy placed which ad.Schedule E fields ↗

Who paid this vendor

SpenderPaidBuys
KEYSTONE RENEWAL PAC$9,362,11521

Candidates named on the buys

Targeting, not money: the spender declares support or opposition on each Schedule E row; the candidate receives nothing.

against Bob Casey $4.2Mfor Dave McCormick $3.8Magainst Dave McCormick $860Kfor Bob Casey $482K

Ads linked to this vendor

None. An ad is linked only when a person verified it from a source naming both, or when this was the only digital vendor its sponsor paid in the week before and while it ran — the FEC does not record which buy placed which ad, so this is not evidence that the vendor made no ads.

Separately, 12 other ads ran within a week of this vendor being paid for placeable media — 12 by KEYSTONE RENEWAL PAC. FEC records do not identify which vendor placed them, so they are listed here as a fact about dates, not as this vendor's ads.

Every buy

DateSpenderS/OTargetAmountMediumFiled payee · purposeSource
Oct 15, 2024KEYSTONE RENEWAL PACOBob Casey$530,750productionINVICTUS ADVERTISING · MEDIA PRODUCTION / MEDIA PLACEMENTFEC ↗
Oct 15, 2024KEYSTONE RENEWAL PACSDave McCormick$750productionINVICTUS ADVERTISING · MEDIA PRODUCTION / MEDIA PLACEMENTFEC ↗
Oct 4, 2024KEYSTONE RENEWAL PACOBob Casey$500,000TVINVICTUS ADVERTISING · MEDIA PLACEMENTFEC ↗
Sep 13, 2024KEYSTONE RENEWAL PACOBob Casey$250,000TVINVICTUS ADVERTISING · MEDIA PLACEMENTFEC ↗
Sep 11, 2024KEYSTONE RENEWAL PACOBob Casey$250,000TVINVICTUS ADVERTISING · MEDIA PLACEMENTFEC ↗
Aug 28, 2024KEYSTONE RENEWAL PACOBob Casey$900,000TVINVICTUS ADVERTISING · MEDIA PLACEMENTFEC ↗
Aug 23, 2024KEYSTONE RENEWAL PACOBob Casey$1,750productionINVICTUS ADVERTISING · CREATIVE DESIGN SERVICESFEC ↗
Aug 19, 2024KEYSTONE RENEWAL PACOBob Casey$500,000TVINVICTUS ADVERTISING · MEDIA PLACEMENTFEC ↗
Aug 9, 2024KEYSTONE RENEWAL PACODave McCormick$360,000TVINVICTUS ADVERTISING · MEDIA PLACEMENTFEC ↗
Aug 6, 2024KEYSTONE RENEWAL PACSBob Casey$481,500productionINVICTUS ADVERTISING · MEDIA PRODUCTION / MEDIA PLACEMENTFEC ↗
Aug 1, 2024KEYSTONE RENEWAL PACOBob Casey$500,000TVINVICTUS ADVERTISING · MEDIA PLACEMENTFEC ↗
Jul 24, 2024KEYSTONE RENEWAL PACODave McCormick$500,000TVINVICTUS ADVERTISING · MEDIA PLACEMENTFEC ↗
Jul 3, 2024KEYSTONE RENEWAL PACSDave McCormick$220,000TVINVICTUS ADVERTISING · MEDIA PLACEMENTFEC ↗
Jun 20, 2024KEYSTONE RENEWAL PACOBob Casey$174,116TVINVICTUS ADVERTISING · MEDIA PLACEMENTFEC ↗
Jun 19, 2024KEYSTONE RENEWAL PACOBob Casey$582,909TVINVICTUS ADVERTISING · MEDIA PLACEMENTFEC ↗
Jun 13, 2024KEYSTONE RENEWAL PACSDave McCormick$93,100TVINVICTUS ADVERTISING · MEDIA PLACEMENTFEC ↗
Jun 4, 2024KEYSTONE RENEWAL PACSDave McCormick$1,697,120TVINVICTUS ADVERTISING · MEDIA PLACEMENTFEC ↗
May 29, 2024KEYSTONE RENEWAL PACSDave McCormick$848,560TVINVICTUS ADVERTISING · MEDIA PLACEMENTFEC ↗
May 7, 2024KEYSTONE RENEWAL PACSDave McCormick$848,560TVINVICTUS ADVERTISING · MEDIA PLACEMENTFEC ↗
Feb 23, 2024KEYSTONE RENEWAL PACSDave McCormick$63,000productionINVICTUS ADVERTISING · MEDIA PRODUCTION / MEDIA PLACEMENTFEC ↗
Oct 30, 2023KEYSTONE RENEWAL PACOBob Casey$60,000productionINVICTUS ADVERTISING · MEDIA PRODUCTION / MEDIA PLACEMENTFEC ↗

Every Schedule E independent expenditure names a payee. Payee strings are normalised (case, punctuation, legal suffixes, token order), near-duplicates are folded with a difflib ratio ≥ 0.92 when their numeric tokens match, and hand alias rows from data/hand/<race>/vendor_aliases.json override the rule. Medium is classified from the purpose the spender filed (ordered keyword table in campaign_commons/vendors.py). The FEC does not record which buy placed which ad: vendor ↔ ad links are date-window adjacency (or single-digital-vendor inference) from campaign_commons.ads_enrich, each with its basis, and are only `verified` when a person found a source naming both. Totals are the filed amounts, grouped, never re-estimated.

Money and positions are shown side by side because they are public records about the same person. Proximity is not causation; we make no claim that any contribution produced any action.

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