2016 Race Heats Up With New Campaign Ads

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January 05, 2016

This week, multiple presidential candidates are releasing new ads on TV and online. (Screengrab/Team Santorum)

After months of campaigning, it's finally 2016 and the presidential campaigns are in full force. This week, multiple candidates are releasing new ads on TV and online.

Digital ad spending for this election will exceed $1 billion this year. Here & Now media analyst John Carroll talks with host Robin Young about the political adscape.

See Some Of The Ads

Guest

John Carroll, Here & Now media analyst and professor of mass communications at Boston University. His blog is “Campaign Outsider” and he tweets @johncarroll_bu.

This segment aired on January 5, 2016.