Dark advertising

Dark advertising is a type of online advertising visible only to the advert's publisher and the intended target group.

Dark advertising allows a publisher to send different adverts to different target audience groups where it would be disadvantageous for the audience of one target group to see the adverts intended for another. This increases the success rate of the publisher's advertising campaign.

This form of advertising is commonly found on online social media platforms that make target group identification possible. Groups can be identified using age based targeting, geotargeting, behavioural targeting and more recently psychographic targeting, among others.

History

In July 2012, the social network Facebook added the ability to create unpublished posts.[1] These could be sponsored, citing "page posts usually contain information that are relevant to only a segment of the page's audience". The term "Dark Advertising" was coined by marketing professionals shortly after and has been used in the media ever since[2][3].

It was reported that the Donald Trump presidential campaign used dark advertising during the United States presidential election, 2016 to dissuade African Americans from voting[4].

In May 2017 a group of activists formed the Who Targets Me project, collecting data on how political campaigns used dark advertising during the United Kingdom general election, 2017 and calling for an end to dark advertising on Facebook[5][6].

On 22nd September 2017, Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Facebook announced that Facebook was ending dark advertising[7][8]

References

  1. ↑ "New Marketing Tools for Pages - Facebook for Developers". Facebook for Developers.
  2. ↑ "The "dark ads" election: How are political parties targeting you on Facebook?". The Bureau of Investigative Journalism. Retrieved 2017-09-21.
  3. ↑ Hern, Alex (2017-07-31). "Facebook 'dark ads' can swing political opinions, research shows". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2017-09-21.
  4. ↑ "Trump campaign using targeted Facebook posts to discourage black Americans from voting".
  5. ↑ "How the Liberal Democrats are using Facebook ads to court 'remainers'". Media Policy Project. 2017-05-24. Retrieved 2017-09-21.
  6. ↑ Booth, Robert (2017-05-03). "Free software to reveal how Facebook election posts are targeted". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2017-09-21.
  7. ↑ "Facebook's Election Ad Overhaul Takes Crucial First Steps". WIRED. Retrieved 2017-09-21.
  8. ↑ "Mark Zuckerberg says Facebook will end untraceable political ads". The Verge. Retrieved 2017-09-21.
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