What other companies are still running ice ads
Executive summary
The US government’s ICE recruitment advertising push ran across multiple major platforms in 2025 but — according to reporting — the specific government campaign ended in late 2025 and Spotify confirmed it is no longer carrying ICE recruitment ads [1]. News coverage identifies Amazon, YouTube, Hulu and Max among platforms that carried those government ads during the campaign, but public reporting does not provide a comprehensive, up-to-the-minute list of which companies, if any, continued to run ICE recruitment ads after the campaign concluded [1].
1. What the reporting actually documents: platforms that carried the government campaign
Investigations and press reports say the ICE recruitment ads were placed broadly across streaming and digital platforms: Amazon, YouTube, Hulu and Max were explicitly named as carriers of the government campaign during 2025 [1], a point corroborated by outlets describing the recruitment drive as running “across all major media and platforms” [1]. Spotify separately confirmed the ads were part of that centralized government push and said they are no longer running them following the campaign’s end [1].
2. The distinction between government-run campaigns and independent “ICE ads”
Coverage emphasizes that these were government-produced recruitment advertisements placed programmatically across media buys rather than bespoke commercial partnerships with a private advertiser, an important difference because platforms were hosting public‑sector ad buys rather than endorsing private ICE-branded marketing arrangements [1]. That framing explains why the ads appeared simultaneously on many different services and why platforms addressed them as placements from a government campaign [1].
3. Who has publicly ceased running the ads — Spotify as a named example
Spotify publicly stated “there are currently no ICE ads running on Spotify,” and linked that to the government campaign’s conclusion in late 2025, marking a clear corporate confirmation of cessation for that platform [1]. The Guardian’s reporting repeats Spotify’s statement and situates it within broader cultural backlash that had already pressured some companies and artists [1].
4. Which companies were reported as hosts but not explicitly confirmed as still running ads
Reports list Amazon, YouTube, Hulu and Max as platforms that ran the campaign during 2025 [1], but the available sources do not document an authoritative, time‑stamped inventory showing which of those companies continued running ICE recruitment spots after the official campaign ended [1]. Public reporting therefore supports saying these platforms carried the ads during the campaign but does not reliably answer “which are still running them now” beyond Spotify’s explicit statement [1].
5. Broader context: advertising vs. contracting and why advertisers matter
Separate coverage of corporate involvement with ICE focuses on contracts and services — from logistics and detention services to cloud and IT providers — rather than ad placements [2] [3] [4]. These stories show a network of corporate collaborators (FedEx, AT&T, Dell Federal, Ecolab and others) doing paid work for ICE, a distinct issue from platforms accepting government ad buys; mixing the two conflates advertising inventory with contractual supply chains [2] [3] [4].
6. Political pressures, agendas and the limits of available reporting
Reporting frames platform decisions through activism and reputational pressure — campaigns pressured Spotify and airlines like Avelo to drop ICE-related services [5] [1] — while advocacy groups aim to publicize every contractor to make boycotts and shareholder activism possible [6] [7]. That agenda-driven coverage is valuable for accountability but also means the available public corpus emphasizes named targets and victories over a methodical, real‑time ledger of ad placements; the present sources do not provide a definitive, current list of companies still broadcasting ICE recruitment ads after the campaign concluded [1] [6].
7. Bottom line for readers seeking a definitive answer
Based on the reporting provided, Spotify confirmed it no longer runs ICE recruitment ads and the government campaign that placed ads on Amazon, YouTube, Hulu and Max concluded in late 2025 [1]; however, the sources do not show which — if any — of those companies kept running new or residual ICE ads after the campaign’s end, so a definitive, contemporaneous list of “companies still running ICE ads” is not available in the supplied reporting [1].