After living in 2 EU countries and the UK for decades, I don't think I've ever seen a political ad on any Google product (and even overall?).
It's probably a very minor impact to Google's ad bottom line.
It's probably a very minor impact to Google's ad bottom line.
I'm wondering if those will be affected by the new ban as well, or if crypto scams aren't political enough to apply.
I know if I saw a paid ad for a candidate that would make me want to vote against them.
I mostly see them on tv, public billboards and light poles.
The most common form of political advertising by volume is probably unauthorized propaganda posters on public infrastructure, yeah. Those are annoying. Also stickers on traffic light poles and similar places.
It's pretty nice in that I can throw it all straight into the recycling bin!
That said, part of the latter being scandalous assumes that they were actually capable of providing the service they claimed, which is something I find myself increasingly unable to believe due to how wildly badly I get categorised by the main advertising platforms — nationality, country of residence, language, gender, all wrong.
they already cannot show ads on EU because of regulations... not that they wouldn't, but campaign managers abide to the regulations and don't go to google.
so what google does? spin it as a holier than thou campaign to try to offset the dumpster fire that is the very lucrative US campaign ads they do profit handsomely from.
"look over here, not over there". so boring.
also, their jobs site have tons of lobbyist positions on DC ;)