As the WP points out, this revelation follows a Time report from May claiming that US intelligence officials had found proof of politically targeted, Kremlin - affiliated Facebook
ad buys during the 2016 Presidential election.
One of the big
ad buys during the Super Bowl last night was Amazon's 90 - second spot advertising the Echo, its voice - activated appliance, and Alexa, the virtual assistant that provides its voice.
Not exact matches
It's no coincidence that
during that same period, Google gained about $ 40 billion in
ad revenue, thanks to the development of «programmatic»
ad markets, where
ads are
bought and sold by algorithms.
Reaching customers became easier
during the recession as the cost of advertising time dropped, meaning companies could
buy more
ads.
Last month, Facebook said that nearly 500 accounts that likely came from Russia
bought $ 100,000 of Facebook
ads during the election.
The
ad was originally meant to be 30 - seconds, but Budweiser
bought an additional 30 - second spot
during the editing process because it wanted to use as much footage as possible.
That number «was more than [Trump] spent on actual
ad buys in all media
during all of 2015,» the study notes, and the candidate's total advertising value was 1.5 times what Bush, Rubio and Cruz got.
The Conservatives
bought radio
ads last year accusing NDP leader Thomas Mulcair, who backed cap and trade
during his leadership bid, of a «carbon tax» plan that «would make everything you need cost more.»
Facebook announced today that its internal investigation revealed fake Russian accounts
bought at least $ 100,000 of political
ads during the 2016 election season.
The European privacy laws may crimp targeted advertising by limiting the flow of personal data, but firms like Google and Facebook still have an advantage because advertisers are likely to turn to services with reach and enormous audiences — akin to
buying an
ad during the Super Bowl.
The Russian trolls
buying ads during 2016 were just one such flaw.
Online banner
ads adapted from the print
ads also appeared on key trade publication websites
during the peak potato
buying season, October 2014 to March 2015, to generate additional play for the campaign.
So for instance, if the brewer wanted to
buy a local
ad during the game in New York for Budweiser, no other alcohol brand could run a local spot in that market.
In fact, Russia hosted Facebook pages and
bought ads supporting Sanders over Hillary Clinton both
during the primary and after that.
Prompted by the widespread Russian influence campaign that targeted nearly two dozen states
during the 2016 presidential election and the proliferation of secretive political advertising on social media platforms like Facebook, Cuomo proposed and the state Legislature successfully passed the «Democracy Protection Act,» which prohibits foreign entities from creating independent expenditure committees or
buying political
ads, requires anyone who purchases an online political
ad to register as an independent expenditure committee, and also requires online
ads to include information about who paid for them, as is currently required of traditional media platforms.
In addition to its clever social - media push, A24 has made a decent amount of TV
ad buys, including a spot
during the prime Friday time slot around 20/20's Bruce Jenner interview, a TV mega event that drew 16.9 M viewers.
Similarly, Twitter
bought its first ever
ad spot
during the ceremony to promote the hashtag #HereWeAre.
September 27, 2014 • Why do advertisers love
buying time for political
ads during Detroit Tigers baseball games?
In the first - ever «roadblock» TV
ad buy on the eve of the public debut, commercials for the Mustang appeared on all three major networks (there being only three major networks back then)
during the 9:30 - 10 p.m. time slot, broadcasting to some 29 million homes.
Ads, like the kind you
buy to promote your eBook on sites like Bookbub or Kindle Nation Daily, work well, especially when you stack multiple on top of each other — essentially run lots of them
during the same time period for maximum impact.
During the Scout campaign your
ads buy attention.
During the big game last night, Engadget found the $ 799 Xoom price tag in a Best
Buy (s bbuy)
ad.
The next night
during a sleepless night, Judy sees an
ad from an insurance company - that offer «Easy to
Buy Life Insurance» from a company that she has never heard of.
The disclosure, first reported by the Wall Street Journal, may give Mueller's office a fuller picture of who was behind the
ad buys and how the
ads may have influenced voter sentiment
during the 2016 election.
One week after it told the country that it had sold $ 100,000 worth of
ads to a Russian troll farm
during the 2016 election, Facebook is still not sure whether pro-Kremlin groups may have made other
ad buys intended to influence American politics that it simply hasn't discovered yet, sources with knowledge of the matter said.
Critics have pilloried the company for letting Russian operatives spread misinformation
during the 2016 presidential campaign, and the new policy was welcomed in Washington, where lawmakers have been working on legislation that would force social media companies to be more transparent about who is
buying certain kinds of
ads.
Facebook said that it traced $ 100,000 in
ad buys made
during the 2016 election cycle to a Russian troll farm.
The live interview was the first by a senior Facebook executive since the social media giant last month told congressional panels investigating allegations of Russian meddling
during the election that it had found 3,000 politically divisive
ads believed to have been
bought by Russia.
Facebook revealed yesterday
during its strong quarterly earnings call that in the last year, Facebook's average revenue per user grew 49.1 percent in the U.S. and Canada — Facebook's home market where advertiser concentration,
buying power and fast mobile networks make video and video
ads popular.
During her talk, Sandberg also confirmed that Facebook will support the plan of congressional investigators probing election interference to release the Russian -
bought ads to the public.
Target is reaching out to men with
ads in GQ Magazine and
during televised football and baseball games, hoping to lure guys like Andrew Hart, 23, an analyst in Dallas, who shops at J. Crew and Banana Republic and said he «would never
buy clothes at Target,» damning it as «both less stylish and lower quality.»
During this time if a homeowner is not already marketing their home, it will be up to the investor to reach out to and find these distressed homeowners through
ads («We
buy homes fast» and «We have CASH for homes») and networking.