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We are talking about a campaign spending almost $20 billion a month, admittedly Facebook ads would only be a part of that, but why is it unrealistic that they r
by lozenge 4y ago
We are talking about a campaign spending almost $20 billion a month, admittedly Facebook ads would only be a part of that, but why is it unrealistic that they ran out of ad spots to buy?
- whimsicalism 4y agoI don't know where you're getting your numbers from but they are definitely not correct (worked in campaign finance tech for a bit).
- jimmygrapes 4y agoI could see $20 million a month, but billion doesn't work here since the Romney campaign didn't spend even one billion[0]. Is this one of those weird "billion means something different in my country" things? Because even then, the miscommunication is usually between billion (10^9 in most English) and trillion (10^12), in short scale[1]. [0]: https://www.fec.gov/data/candidate/P80003353/?tab=summary https://www.fec.gov/data/candidate/P80003353/?tab=summary [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_and_short_scales https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_and_short_scales
- paledot 4y agoNo, pretty sure "million" means 10^6 everywhere.
- paledot 4y agoAt $20b/mo, you could literally buy the TV networks and show whatever programming you wanted. Or make a decent down payment on Facebook.