See The Political Affiliations Of Thousands Of Brands And Companies!
Is your favorite company red or blue? Does it fund Donald Trump, Mitch McConnell, AOC, or Chuck Schumer? Just download our FREE app.
It’s the highest rated political app in the app store (4.7 out of 5 stars). Hundreds of thousands of Democrats and Republicans have downloaded it already!
How It Works
Enter a company name. And the app will tell you the political donations made by the company and its senior employees. See information on Apple, Walmart, Patagonia, Koch, AARP, New Balance, Starbucks, AT&T and thousands more!
The app has information on clothing brands, home goods, cars, restaurants, universities, sports teams, and much more. It also has an ad free option, reviews, and lets you show your support or opposition to brands’ political contributions.
People are curious about where companies and brands stand politically, and we tell them in an easy to use format (that’s very addicting). Since we launched our free political iOS app last November, over 12,000 people have used it (for an average session time of nearly 5 minutes!).
Our data is hand-curated, so you can trust it. Our researchers first figure out the parent company or companies of thousands of brands. And then they figure out how much money those companies and their senior employees collectively contribute to politicians and PACs, so you can easily figure out where your money goes when you purchase things. Finally, we input all of this information into our secret algorithm and voila — the result is our popular Campaign Finance Reform Score for each company and brand (which you can read more about here).
Now that our user base has grown we thought it’d be interesting to see which companies our users are looking at the most. What we found was a bit surprising. The names of the most viewed companies did not necessarily surprise us; what surprised us was the fact that out of nearly 4,000 brands and companies in our database, some of our top companies were looked at by a high percentage of all of our users.
That means these brands and companies need to start thinking about, and managing, their political profiles more closely. Because consumers care about what they’re doing — a lot.
So, without further ado, here are the top 25 most viewed companies and brands on our iPhone app:
Most Viewed Companies/Brands
(1) AT&T
(2) Amazon
(3) AMC Theaters
(4) Ace Hardware
(5) Apple
(6) Target
(7) Abercrombie & Fitch
(8) Costco
(9) Starbucks
(10) Airbnb
(11) Wal-Mart
(12) Home Depot
(13) AOL
(14) A&S Brewing
(15) Nike
(16) Chick-Fil-A
(17) Trader Joe’s
(18) McDonald’s
(19) Verizon
(20) Lowe’s
(21) Charmin
(22) Angel Soft
(23) Whole Foods Market
(24) New Balance
(25) Hobby Lobby
If you’re curious about where a particular company or brand stands politically, we encourage you to download our free app. And now you can also figure out your own Campaign Finance Reform Score by taking our Rate Yourself function within our app and on our website.
It’s entertaining, and the results might surprise you!
With just two months until the midterm election, many of our readers are gearing up to vote for their respective candidates. This is great because voting is the bedrock of our democracy. Behind the scenes, however, a lot of brands and companies are contributing a lot of money to politicians and PACs, and our job at Goods Unite Us is to make sure consumers know what their favorite brands and companies are doing.
To that end, this post will focus on the top 25 Democrat companies based on how much they and their senior employees give to Democrats. (We’ll focus on the Republican companies in another post.)
Without further ado…
here are the top 25 Democrat companies ranked by total amount given
Curious how we determine a company’s Campaign Finance Reform Score? Read up on it here.
We hope that you’ll take this information and shop in accordance with your political beliefs so that you are not inadvertently supporting (or not supporting) brands and companies that align with your beliefs.
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On July 25, 2018, at a demo day in front of a room full of investors in Silicon Valley, California, Goods Unite Us released a free, first-of-its-kind rating tool that allows users to see how their own purchasing habits impact politics.
To use it, you just need to answer ten questions about your own purchasing habits (where you shop for groceries, what kind of car you drive, where you bank, where you buy clothes, etc.). And then the tool uses average consumer spending data and our database of political information on nearly 4,000 brands and companies to calculate whether your purchases are helping Democrats, Republicans or both!
If you’ve read our blog before, you know that Goods Unite Us currently maintains a free website and iOS app that includes political donation information for nearly 4,000 brands and companies.
Each brand and company page provides users with information about where the company/brand and its senior employees donate money. For example, here are the pages for Angel Soft and Apple:
Now, instead of just rating companies, we’ve created a way for everyone to rate themselves. Answer the questions, and we’ll provide you with your percent Democrat/Republican breakdown and a Campaign Finance Reform Score (which you can read more about here). Your ratings will look like this:
And in the next few weeks, we’ll be rolling out features that give users tips on how to best change their ratings if they don’t like them. So, for example, if you’re a Republican but your purchases help Democrats, we’ll tell you what areas of your spending (credit cards, phone companies, etc.) are most impacting your percentage breakdown and Campaign Finance Reform Score. And we’ll recommend some companies that you can support instead of the ones you’re currently purchasing goods or services from to help change your ratings.
At Goods Unite Us, our mission is to provide more transparency around corporate money in politics. And now — not only can you use our website and app to see who companies and brands are supporting — you can more easily take matters into your own hands!
