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By Katharine Gammon
Tribune Interactive (TNS)
March 23, 2018 2:50 p.m.
Immediately after the horror of the February 14 mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., the National Rifle Association halted all of its digital advertising, including ads on YouTube, banner ads on websites, and Facebook ads.
Within four days, though, the NRA had returned in force, increasing its advertising aggressively on Facebook, and spending so widely and indiscriminately that its ads on YouTube showed up on videos for school-age kids. According to a previously unpublished review by Pathmatics, a company that scrapes data from online ads, the NRA spent more than six times as much on digital ads after the Parkland shooting than it did in the weeks before it. Its average daily spending in the 24 days before Parkland was $11,300, according to Pathmatics. In the 24 days after its silent period, that average jumped to $47,300.
Nearly all of the increase was on social media, primarily Facebook, where the NRA took its spending from an average of $4,400 a day in the three weeks prior to Parkland to $34,000 a day in the three weeks after the silence. Florida was heavily targeted in the post-tragedy ad burst. The state went from ninth most targeted in January to third between mid-February and mid-March.
The NRA didnt change its message the ads were the same as before the shooting. The message was just pushed much harder. For the past year, the NRA had been ranked No. 706 by Pathmatics on its list of top YouTube video advertisers. In the period since Feb. 21, the gun-rights group jumped into the top 100 at No. 92.
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Angry Dragon
(36,693 posts)Wounded Bear
(58,670 posts)Typical. Maybe this time we can make it meaningless.
3Hotdogs
(12,391 posts)elehhhhna
(32,076 posts)Fact.
blue neen
(12,322 posts)Yep.
hedda_foil
(16,375 posts)Everyone could see for themselves just what the NRA was pushing. And seeing ourselves in a nation-sized mirror, America recoiled from our image in stunned horror. The NRA finally exposed itself in the light of a hundred million smartphones. And the children will lead us in taking the NRA down. Enough is enough!