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Donald Trump’s Banner Advertising

Donald Trump’s Banner Advertising
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Donald Trump's Banner Advertising
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I came across the banner ad shown below on this article on Fortune.com.

Screenshot: Donald Trump Ad On Fortune
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Seeing a political ad on a news website is unremarkable in and of itself but I thought it was odd that I was seeing the ad.

The Trump campaign’s banner ad was delivered, and therefore placed, through Google’s DoubleClick ad network. But it appears that the banner ads the Trump campaign is running are not targeted in a very sophisticated manner…or even targeted at all.

Geographic Targeting

Screenshot: Donald Trump DoubleClick Geo-Targeting

You can do some pretty fine-tuned targeting with DoubleClick ads, beginning with geography.

The fact that I was seeing this ad struck me as odd because I live in Minnesota. While Donald Trump was running roughshod over all his opponents in nearly every state during the Republican primaries, he came in third my state, I’m proud to say.

Table - 2016 Republican Primary Results In Minnesota

Why spend precious advertising dollars on targeting a state that did not support you, especially when your campaign lags so far behind your opponent in fundraising?

Demographic & Psychographic Targeting

Sure, there are plenty of Trump supporters in Minnesota the campaign can target with fundraising appeals, at least 24,000 of them according to the primary results.

Donald Trump’s Banner #Advertising #DonaldTrump

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But the fact that I was seeing the Trump ad tells me the campaign isn’t doing a good job of modeling their supporters. The Wall Street Journal published a story illustrating some of the psychographic differences between Americans who support Hillary Clinton versus those who support Donald Trump, based on Facebook “Like” data.

 

MAP: TV Shows By Party Affiliation

Identifying and targeting your audience based on demographic, psychographic, geographic, and technographic profiles is kind of marketing 101. And it’s not like the tool the Trump campaign is using, Google AdWords Display Planner, doesn’t allow for such targeting.

Screenshot: Donald Trump DoubleClick Campaign Exclusions

And it is not like Google doesn’t have enough data about me for Trump campaign to effectively exclude me as someone who would never support his candidacy.

It is hard to believe that a presidential campaign of a major party candidate would fail at the basic blocking and tackling of online marketing. But when you consider Donald Trump’s earlier email spam campaign, the ineptitude of Trump’s online marketing is becoming increasingly clear.

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July 24, 2016 By David Erickson
Filed Under: Advertising, Online Advertising Tagged With: Banner Advertising, Donald Trump, DoubleClick, Fortune, GEO Targeting, Google, google adwords, Google Display Planner, Internet Advertising, Online Fundraising, online politics, political advertising

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