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Ian Phillips for CNY

This page ran 243 paid political ads on Facebook and Instagram between 7 May 2026 and 26 October 2026. Meta reports $9.2–33.3K of spend, which makes it the 2,521st largest advertiser of the 24,034 pages in our data. Advertiser type: Candidate. Most of its spend took no side. Race: State. Paid for by Ian for CNY.

Data from the Meta Ad Library, pulled 4 November 2026. Election on 3 November 2026. · Every ad of this page in Meta’s Ad Library ↗

243

ads

$21.2K

reported spend, range $9.2–33.3K

30%

of spend on federal races

$50

median spend per ad

Spend by week the ad started

4 May
1 Jun
6 Jul
3 Aug
7 Sep
5 Oct
 Spend still counting
2 Nov

Tone

Attack
41%
Promotional
50%
Informational
8.8%

Share of the 227 ads with text that our model classified. Attack ads name an opponent.

Most attacked

  • Our current Assemblyperson$1.3K
  • Assemblyman John Lemondes$1.3K
  • corporate-funded politicians$1.2K
  • John Lemondes$892
  • Lemondes$646
  • John Lemondes and Donald Trump$545

Targets as the ads name them, by spend; the spellings of Donald Trump are counted together, other names as written.

Topics

Candidate profile
43%
Infrastructure & energy
41%
Corruption & governance
35%
Electoral process & turnout
31%
Economy & cost of living
16%
Other
5.3%
Security, crime & immigration
3.5%
Jobs & youth
0.9%

Spend by race: Federal 30%, State 46%, No specific race 24%.

Spend by ad language: English 93%.

The costliest ads

The highest-spend ad of each distinct text, as it ran.

  • Vote Early for Democrat Ian Phillips! Early Voting runs October 24-November 1. Find your polling place and vote early for Ian Phillips for Assembly!

    23 October 2026 · Ian Phillips for CNY · $600 – $699 · 90K+ impressions · Promotional · Ad Library

  • Time's up for corporate-funded politicians. Vote Ian Phillips Nov 3.

    8 September 2026 · Ian Phillips for CNY · $500 – $599 · 100K+ impressions · Attack · Ad Library

  • Assemblyman John Lemondes just "felt" the 2020 election was stolen.

    30 September 2026 · Ian Phillips for CNY · $400 – $499 · 70K+ impressions · Attack · Ad Library

  • Ian will jump through anything for Central NY.

    28 September 2026 · Ian Phillips for CNY · $400 – $499 · 80K+ impressions · Promotional · Ad Library

  • I was a middle school teacher. I know a temper tantrum when I see one.

    16 October 2026 · Ian Phillips for CNY · $300 – $399 · 70K+ impressions · Attack · Ad Library

  • Harmful algal blooms have appeared in Skaneateles, Otisco, and Owasco Lakes. What we need in our next State Assemblyperson is a champion for the Finger Lakes. Our current Assemblyperson has opposed commonsense watershed rules and has failed to deliver.

    10 August 2026 · Ian Phillips for CNY · $300 – $399 · 80K+ impressions · Attack · Ad Library

Figures cover domestic political ads paid in dollars, from 4 May 2026. Spend is the sum of Meta’s range midpoints; impressions above one million are reported as “1M+”, so impression figures are floors. Each ad counts in the week its delivery started, with its lifetime spend at our last pull; ads still running before the vote are counted as of 31 October 2026.

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