{"id":16686,"date":"2019-04-30T21:00:09","date_gmt":"2019-05-01T04:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=16686"},"modified":"2019-04-30T21:00:09","modified_gmt":"2019-05-01T04:00:09","slug":"biden-tops-competitors-in-digital-ad-spending","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=16686","title":{"rendered":"Biden tops competitors in digital ad spending"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former Vice President Joe Biden is outpacing his 2020 Democratic rivals in spending on digital advertisements, CNN reported Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Biden spent about $800,000 last week on Facebook and Google ads, more than any of his competitors in the race for the Democratic presidential nomination, according to CNN.<\/p>\n<p>Biden, who announced his bid for the presidency last week, spent about $407,000 on Facebook ads, CNN reported, buying a total of 1,336 targeted ads on the platform.<\/p>\n<p>His campaign&#8217;s Facebook spending was greater than the combined total of the next five candidates.<\/p>\n<p>Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) spent $100,677, while Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Andrew Yang, Washington Gov. Jay Inslee (D), and South Bend, Ind., Mayor Pete Buttigieg each spent less than $100,000.<\/p>\n<p>On Google, Biden&#8217;s campaign spent $388,900 on ads last week, making him the top political advertiser on the platform, according to CNN. The next closest candidate was Buttigieg, whose campaign spent just under $50,000 on ads on the platform, according to the report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Vice President Joe Biden is&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-u-s-a"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16686","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16686"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16686\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16687,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16686\/revisions\/16687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}