Disney is blocking Senate Leadership Fund (SLF)’s ads highlighting Democrats’ pro-trans agenda and soft-on-crime policies to the majority of their audience, according to documentation reviewed by Breitbart News, effectively preventing the group’s political ads from reaching viewers on multiple streaming platforms.
\n\nThe group says at least two thirds of its ads in Ohio aimed at reaching voters have been blocked due to Disney’s policy of labeling them as TV-MA, for Mature audiences only. The restriction has also affected ads in Alaska and North Carolina. All three states feature competitive races in which SLF has committed tens of millions of dollars in advertising.
\n\nDisney is the only streaming platform utilizing the policy label to block the ads from the wider audiences. SLF says it has led to a loss in millions of impressions and “likely” prevented political advertising from reaching tens of thousands if not hundreds of thousands of subscribers.
\n\nSLF says Disney has the 2nd-largest footprint in streaming behind YouTube for political advertisers, and the policies appear to only be targeting “culture war” ads made by Republican-aligned organizations.
\n\nAdImpact, an advertising intelligence company, projected in June that connected television (CTV) spending in the 2026 cycle would surpass $2.5 billion. The…
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