2023 Bremen state election
How do political campaigns target voters?
Methodology
In collaboration with Who Targets Me, we monitored over 36 political advertisers in Bremen during the 2023 Bremen state election to better understand how campaigns use different targeting methods made available by Meta. To do this, we used data from the Meta Ad Library, using the new ‘Audience’ data which gives some detail on how pages target their ads.
To better understand the election, we kept only advertisers who:
- Advertised in the last 7 days (May 8th - May 14th 2023)
- Advertised in the last 30 days (Apr 15th - May 14th 2023)
Note: Meta only provides 7, 30 and 90 days windows for the targeting data in their Ad Library. Meta’s data also lags by a few days. We will update this report as soon as new data is available.
Topline Statistics
Apr 15th - May 14th 2023 (Last 30 days)
In total, political parties spend €52,732 and ran 1159 ad copies on Meta in this timeframe.
| Number of Advertisers | Top Spenders | Number of Ads | Total Spend | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
FDP |
5 |
|
732 |
€8,509 |
DIE GRUENEN |
2 |
|
19 |
€7,070 |
Volt |
1 |
|
87 |
€6,989 |
CDU |
8 |
|
69 |
€6,866 |
DIE LINKE |
1 |
|
22 |
€6,801 |
SPD |
13 |
|
122 |
€6,070 |
BIW |
2 |
|
52 |
€5,960 |
dieBasis |
1 |
|
52 |
€3,684 |
Tierschutzpartei |
1 |
|
4 |
€783 |
May 8th - May 14th 2023 (Last 7 days)
In total, political parties spend €25,381 and ran 605 ad copies on Meta in this timeframe.
| Number of Advertisers | Top Spenders | Number of Ads | Total Spend | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
DIE GRUENEN |
2 |
|
8 |
€3,869 |
Volt |
1 |
|
40 |
€3,405 |
DIE LINKE |
1 |
|
20 |
€3,237 |
dieBasis |
1 |
|
51 |
€3,228 |
SPD |
13 |
|
50 |
€3,062 |
BIW |
2 |
|
23 |
€2,947 |
FDP |
4 |
|
369 |
€2,853 |
CDU |
6 |
|
41 |
€2,451 |
Tierschutzpartei |
1 |
|
3 |
€329 |
Spending per Targeting Criteria
How much did campaigns spend on different targeting methods?
Apr 15th - May 14th 2023 (Last 30 days)
Overall
By Party
May 8th - May 14th 2023 (Last 7 days)
Overall
By Party
Top Targeted (Detailed) Audiences
Here, we show the top targeted audiences for each party for the “detailed” targeting that Meta offers (ranked by amount of Euro spend). Most (but not all) of these audiences are “interest” audiences, i.e. the parties targeted people interested in “Books” or “Politics”.
Apr 15th - May 14th 2023 (Last 30 days)
May 8th - May 14th 2023 (Last 7 days)
Top Contested Audiences
Here, we show the top most contested audiences, i.e. where all parties have spent considerable amounts of money competing to reach voters with the same interests. Most (but not all) of these audiences are “interest” audiences, i.e. the parties targeted people interested in “Books” or “Politics”. In each row on the right hand side, you can see how much in total was spend on that specific target audience.
Apr 15th - May 14th 2023 (Last 30 days)
May 8th - May 14th 2023 (Last 7 days)
Age Targeting
Apr 15th - May 14th 2023 (Last 30 days)
May 8th - May 14th 2023 (Last 7 days)
Gender Targeting
Apr 15th - May 14th 2023 (Last 30 days)
May 8th - May 14th 2023 (Last 7 days)
Job Targeting
Apr 15th - May 14th 2023 (Last 30 days)
