United States 2026 · Every advertiser

Kathy Watanabe for Mayor 2026

This page ran 36 paid political ads on Facebook and Instagram between 27 July 2026 and 26 October 2026. Meta reports $6.5–10.1K of spend, which makes it the 4,793rd largest advertiser of the 24,034 pages in our data. Advertiser type: Candidate. Most of its spend took no side. Race: Local.

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 ↗

36

ads

$8.3K

reported spend, range $6.5–10.1K

0.0%

of spend on federal races

$50

median spend per ad

Spend by week the ad started

3 Aug
7 Sep
5 Oct
 Spend still counting
2 Nov

Tone

Attack
36%
Promotional
61%
Defensive
3.0%

Share of the 33 ads with text that our model classified. Attack ads name an opponent.

Most attacked

  • The 49ers$2K
  • Jed York$1.6K
  • 49ers$899
  • the Bay Area, the NFL, and FIFA$99

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

Topics

Candidate profile
61%
Corruption & governance
33%
Infrastructure & energy
30%
Electoral process & turnout
27%
Economy & cost of living
24%
Social protection
3.0%
Education
3.0%

Spend by race: Local 100%.

Spend by ad language: English 98%.

The costliest ads

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

  • I don’t have millions of dollars for TV ads. The 49ers do. They are spending it to attack me for putting Santa Clara residents first. What I do have is experience on city council and endorsements from neighbors and community leaders like Congressman Ro Khanna. Santa Clara is not for sale. Vote Kathy Watanabe for Mayor by November 3.

    6 October 2026 · Kathy Watanabe for Mayor 2026 · $800 – $899 · 200K+ impressions · Attack · Ad Library

  • Jed York has put $2,625,823 into this Santa Clara election. That money is not neutral. His committees are spending it to elect his picks and to attack me. I am Kathy Watanabe, former Vice Mayor. They are coming after me because I put Santa Clara families first. I asked what our city actually gets from a stadium we own. That was enough. A billionaire who does not live with our traffic, our public-safety costs, or our streets does not get to buy City Hall. Santa Clara is not his franchise. Our

    2 October 2026 · Kathy Watanabe for Mayor 2026 · $700 – $799 · 200K+ impressions · Attack · Ad Library

  • Hear why Santa Clara residents are voting Kathy Watanabe for Mayor.

    2 October 2026 · Kathy Watanabe for Mayor 2026 · $700 – $799 · 175K+ impressions · Promotional · Ad Library

  • Santa Clara residents just rallied outside Levi’s Stadium to say no more 49ers money in our elections! They have spent over $10 million trying to pick who runs our city. I won’t take it. Santa Clara families come first. Vote Kathy Watanabe for Mayor by November 3.

    18 October 2026 · Kathy Watanabe for Mayor 2026 · $400 – $499 · 100K+ impressions · Attack · Ad Library

  • Vote Kathy Watanabe for Mayor of Santa Clara by November 3.

    26 October 2026 · Kathy Watanabe for Mayor 2026 · $200 – $299 · 50K+ impressions · Promotional · Ad Library

  • I show up. I put Santa Clara first. And I get the job done. That’s the difference. Vote Kathy Watanabe for Mayor of Santa Clara by November 3.

    20 October 2026 · Kathy Watanabe for Mayor 2026 · $200 – $299 · 60K+ impressions · Promotional · 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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