--- title: 2016 Election Campaign Ad Spending Tops $111 Million in 2015 description: Team Jeb Bush leads the list by far canonical: https://time.com/4159113/2016-election-campaign-ad-spending/ author: NBC News article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-12-22T19:41:01.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-04T07:56:44.984Z article:section: Politics og:title: Presidential Campaign Ad Spending Tops $111 Million in 2015 og:description: Team Jeb Bush leads the list by far og:url: https://time.com/4159113/2016-election-campaign-ad-spending/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Presidential Campaign Ad Spending Tops $111 Million in 2015 twitter:description: Team Jeb Bush leads the list by far twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Presidential Campaign Ad Spending Tops $111 Million in 2015 ## Video: TIME Raw: Jeb Bush on His VP [Watch (HLS stream): TIME Raw: Jeb Bush on His VP](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/40jIXt2D.m3u8) (0:22)  _Published 2015-12-02_ by [Mark Murray / NBC News](https://time.com/author/nbc-news/) ## Mark Murray / NBC News Dec 22, 2015 7:41 PM UTC by [Mark Murray / NBC News](https://time.com/author/nbc-news/) ## Mark Murray / NBC News Dec 22, 2015 7:41 PM UTC As the year comes to a close, ad spending so far in the 2016 election has topped $111 million, and a third of that amount has come from Jeb Bush and his allies, according to ad-tracking data from SMG Delta. By comparison, $35 million had been spent on TV and radio ads at this same point in time in the 2012 presidential race – with Mitt Romney and his allies (at $8.5 million) and pro-Obama forces (at $7.4 million) being the biggest spenders by the end of 2011. But in this current election cycle, Jeb Bush’s Super PAC, Right to Rise, is the No. 1 spender, having aired $37 million… [Read the rest of the story from our partners at NBC News](http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/first-read/campaign-ad-spending-tops-111-million-2015-n484571?cid=par-time%5F20151222) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4159113/2016-election-campaign-ad-spending/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4159113/2016-election-campaign-ad-spending/"},"headline":"Presidential Campaign Ad Spending Tops $111 Million in 2015","datePublished":"2015-12-22T19:41:01.000Z","dateModified":"2026-08-04T07:56:44.984Z","description":"Team Jeb Bush leads the list by far","url":"https://time.com/4159113/2016-election-campaign-ad-spending/","keywords":["2016 Election","Hillary Clinton","2016 Election topic","finance","jeb bush"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Mark Murray / NBC News"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/2016-election/","name":"2016 Election"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4159113/2016-election-campaign-ad-spending/","name":"Presidential Campaign Ad Spending Tops $111 Million in 2015"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"TIME Raw: Jeb Bush on His VP","description":"","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/40jIXt2D/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2015-12-02T13:30:06.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/40jIXt2D.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/4159113/2016-election-campaign-ad-spending/","duration":"PT22S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/4159113/2016-election-campaign-ad-spending/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```