Political ads are very small percentage of revenue for FB https://www.google.com/amp/s/techcrunch.com/2019/10/30/zucke...
Re:Quantifying the Adpocalypse
by three_seagrass on Thursday April 09, 2020 @07:29PM
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According to Zuckerberg, in defense against accusations that he was being greedy by allowing them on FB.
I'd be more interested in an independent or consumer-based third party analysis validating his numbers, since he doesn't mention PAC spending.
Trump spent very little in his first election campaign, mainly relying on saying outrageous things and tweeting (one estimate was that he added $2 billion to the value of the Twitter brand.)
How little? Enough that all the Silicon Valley advertising companies missed their quarter, either unaware or wilfully ignorant that he wasn't spending money.
Re:Quantifying the Adpocalypse
by kevin_thibedeau on Friday April 10, 2020 @01:24AM
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He wasn't trying to win.
Re:Quantifying the Adpocalypse
by knowledgemule on Thursday April 09, 2020 @07:26PM
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Oh how we wish amazon disclosed advertising
This article is also missing the fact that we're in an election year in the U.S. The ad spend from that alone could counter a lot of the losses from covid 19.