Marketing occupation money in the 2008 FEC cycle

Marketing and the 2008 cycle as two FEC filters

Two FEC dimensions meet here: occupation MARKETING and the 2008 election cycle. The intersection is $1,987,623 ($2.0 million), 2,224 contributions, and 1,111 donors. 6.6% of Marketing occupation dollars ($29,904,769) fall in 2008.

2008 is an even-year federal cycle labeled 2008 on FEC.gov, a presidential-year window in itemized receipts. This page does not add later cycles into the 2008 dollars. MARKETING is a one-word occupation, not a campaign or agency census. MARKETING DIRECTOR and ADVERTISING remain other keys. The 2008 join does not assign employers, product categories, or agency versus in-house roles.

Marketing as an occupation string

On the occupation side, $29,904,769 is the Marketing total across cycles. Sibling labels (MARKETING DIRECTOR, MARKETING MANAGER, and ADVERTISING) stay on other pages. Marketing is not a NAICS advertising-sector total, an agency headcount, or a marketing PAC.

All occupations lists other titles without adding them to $29,904,769. The Marketing donations page holds the all-cycle occupation table that $1,987,623 is a slice of. Dividing $1,987,623 by 2,224 receipts yields about $894 per line; dividing by 1,111 donors yields about $1,789 per person. Those ratios are arithmetic, not medians.

1,111 Marketing donors in the 2008 cell

The 2008 election cycle hub holds itemized individual receipts for every occupation coded to that even-year window. This tie keeps only Marketing. $1,987,623 is therefore not a cycle-wide total. FEC.gov labels this even-year federal window 2008. It is not a 2010 midterm filter and not a later presidential cycle.

2,224 contributions from 1,111 donors is moderate repeat itemization inside the cycle filter. About 2.0 itemized rows per donor is a filing ratio. Mean per receipt about $894; mean per donor about $1,789. Those means are arithmetic on the 2008 cell only. The packet has no median, no party split, and no employer table. Unitemized federal gifts never enter $1,987,623. Three numbers define the Marketing × 2008 cell: dollars $1,987,623, contribution rows 2,224, unique donors 1,111. Share of occupation dollars is 6.6% of $29,904,769.

What a Marketing–2008 join cannot claim

Matching Marketing with 2008 does not measure influence, does not assign party, and does not say Marketing donors caused an electoral result. Correlation between an occupation string and a cycle is not causation. The table is also not a NAICS advertising-sector total, an agency headcount, or a marketing PAC.

Itemized individual contributions from FEC.gov only. Independent expenditures, unitemized gifts, and state-office campaigns are excluded. Occupation labels are filer-entered. MARKETING is a one-word occupation, not a campaign or agency census. MARKETING DIRECTOR and ADVERTISING remain other keys. The 2008 join does not assign employers, product categories, or agency versus in-house roles. Campaign gifts and federal awards remain separate public records. This page does not claim that $1,987,623 funded USAspending obligations. If a reader only needs the occupation, the Marketing donations hub is $29,904,769; the 2008 election cycle hub is the even-year inventory across titles. Do not add those hubs together.

Linked Marketing and 2008 tables

Marketing donations holds the $29,904,769 occupation total. The 2008 election cycle page holds every occupation in that window, not only Marketing. All occupations places MARKETING beside other titles without merging sibling strings (MARKETING DIRECTOR, MARKETING MANAGER, and ADVERTISING). All FEC ties lists other occupation-cycle pairs so $1,987,623 is not added to a different year.

Use the occupation hub for all-cycle Marketing dollars ($29,904,769). Use the 2008 cycle hub for the even-year window across titles. Use this tie for the intersection only: $1,987,623, 2,224 contributions, 1,111 donors, 6.6% of occupation dollars. Those four internal links are the only hrefs this copy may use.

Presidential-year reading of Marketing 2008

2008 is a presidential-year FEC clock. Primaries, generals, and leftover receipts from adjacent windows can sit in the same even-year label. This packet does not split $1,987,623 by those stages or by party.

A later or earlier cell for the same occupation string is a different join even when the occupation total $29,904,769 is shared. Keep MARKETING attached to $1,987,623 whenever the sentence also names cycle 2008.

Questions

How much did Marketing-labeled donors give in 2008?

The Marketing grouping’s 2008 cell is $1,987,623 in itemized individual contributions, from 2,224 contributions and 1,111 donors, per FEC.gov aggregates. That is the occupation-cycle join, not a PAC total and not the $29,904,769 all-cycle occupation total.

Is Marketing an industry total?

No. MARKETING here is an occupation string on individual contributions, not a NAICS advertising-sector roll-up. The 2008 cycle filter on Marketing is $1,987,623, 2,224 contributions, and 1,111 donors. The occupation total across cycles is $29,904,769. Labels are filer-entered on FEC.gov itemized receipts.

What share of Marketing FEC money fell in 2008?

About 6.6%. $1,987,623 divided by $29,904,769 is the 2008 cell’s share of the lifetime occupation bucket. Other cycles hold about 93.4% ($27,917,146) on the occupation hub. See the Marketing occupation hub for other cycles and the 2008 cycle hub for other strings.

Does Marketing 2008 money fund federal awards?

No. These figures are FEC individual contribution aggregates. Federal awards are published by USAspending. This page does not claim that campaign gifts funded those awards. $1,987,623 is itemized receipts tagged MARKETING in 2008, not an obligation total. Occupation labels are filer-entered.