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It would be good to compare Amazon advertising spend as well. This article is also missing the fact that we're in an election year in the U.S. The ad spend fr
by three_seagrass 7y ago
It would be good to compare Amazon advertising spend as well.
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.
- AznHisoka 7y agoPolitical ads are very small percentage of revenue for FB https://www.google.com/amp/s/techcrunch.com/2019/10/30/zuckerberg-political-ads/amp/ https://www.google.com/amp/s/techcrunch.com/2019/10/30/zucke...
- three_seagrass 7y agoAccording 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.
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- redis_mlc 7y agoTrump 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.
- kevin_thibedeau 7y agoHe wasn't trying to win.
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- knowledgemule 7y agoOh how we wish amazon disclosed advertising