Free State ResearchTracker
TV planned = orders, estimates and contracts from the FCC files (what is booked); TV invoiced = station invoices in the same files (what actually ran and was billed). Scanned documents add nothing to either. FEC = independent expenditures as filed. Digital = the high end of platform-reported ranges (Meta). Nothing here is a projection.
| sponsor | side | about | TV planned | TV invoiced | FEC filed | digital (range) | media | latest |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Derek Schmidt | red | Derek Schmidt | — | — | — | —–$198 2 ads |
Meta | 2026-09-27 |
| candidate | race | raised | spent | cash on hand | through | itemized to date | last 30 days | latest gift |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Don Coover blue | U.S. House, 2nd District federal | $758,823 | $514,537 | $244,286 | 2026-07-15 | – | – | – |
| Derek Schmidt red | U.S. House, 2nd District federal | $1,457,605 | $556,938 | $939,168 | 2026-07-15 | – | – | – |
Kansas statewide candidates report twice a year and before each election; the July report covers through July 23. The itemized columns come from the Secretary of State's contribution viewer, pulled daily, and move the moment a new report or a last-minute filing is processed. Federal figures follow the FEC's quarterly filings. Cash on hand is what is left after spending, not what has been booked.
| station | files | $ floor | sponsors |
|---|
⤓ Spots by audience — age & gender (Excel) · who the TV spots reach, modeled from the daypart each runs in and public audience data (estimate, not measured ratings)
| advertiser | side | Meta | total (floor) | impressions | ads | latest |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Derek Schmidt | red | $198 | $198 | 1,998 | 2 | 2026-09-27 |
| Total (floor) | $198 | $198 | 1,998 | |||
Kansas-level only, and every ad here already cleared the platform's Kansas filter (Meta: delivered in Kansas; Google & Snap: Kansas in the targeting). There is no media-market split of digital to pull — Meta reports each ad's Kansas delivery share and Google/Snap report the geography a buy targeted, neither reports dollars by market. Spend is the platform's own range; the total is the high end, the floor the rest of the app uses. The per-ad geography is in the next card.
| advertiser | platform | spend (range) | impressions | targeting / delivery | seen | ad |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Derek Schmidt Derek Schmidt |
Meta | up to $99 | 100–999 | Kansas delivery 100% | 2026-09-27 | open ↗ |
| Derek Schmidt Derek Schmidt |
Meta | up to $99 | 100–999 | Kansas delivery 100% | 2026-09-27 | open ↗ |
| committee | side | platforms | DSPs | digital firms | total paid | largest payees |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Don Coover U.S. House, 2nd District |
blue | — | — | $189,964 | $189,964 | BLUEPRINT INTERACTIVE $25,000 · BLUEPRINT INTERACTIVE $25,000 · BLUEPRINT INTERACTIVE $20,000 · BLUEPRINT INTERACTIVE $16,243 |
Federal committees only (U.S. Senate and House) — the Attorney General and Governor races file with the Kansas PDC, not the FEC, so they are not here yet. These are payments a committee disclosed, matched to ad platforms (Google, Meta, Snap, YouTube, TikTok, Roku, Hulu…), programmatic DSPs (The Trade Desk, DV360, MNTN, Basis, Viant…) and known digital firms. A payment is not the same as ad spend — a media firm's line can bundle production and fees — but a check to a DSP is streaming/programmatic money the ad libraries never show. Largest disbursements this cycle.