by Comms Declare | May 7, 2025 | Articles, Political Advertising
The election results are finally in! We can now say who the biggest political advertisers were across Google and Meta for the three months prior to the Australian federal election. Here’s the top spenders according to WhoTargets.Me ☑️ $16.7m Labor☑️ $14.6m Liberal☑️...
by Comms Declare | Apr 22, 2025 | Articles
A complaint lodged by Comms Declare over a series of front-page newspaper stories promoting the gas industry has been dismissed by the Australian Press Council, despite the lack of transparency regarding sponsored content. The controversy began with the Daily...
by Comms Declare | Apr 10, 2025 | Articles, Political Advertising
Far right political advertiser, Advance, has started the month with an ad blitz across five fake community and fake news social media pages. In the first week of April, its Facebook pages took out the top three spots in spending for non-political parties. Source:...
by Comms Declare | Apr 8, 2025 | Articles
We believe the opinion article by Nick Cater ‘Want honesty in politics? Teals should ditch the big spending hypocrisy’, published in the Australian Newspaper on 7 April, 2025, does not uphold the Press Council’s Statement of General Principals – Fairness and...
by Comms Declare | Mar 17, 2025 | Articles, Political Advertising
Seen a lot of Woodside billboards lately? You’re not imagining it.Data seen by Comms Declare shows that the petroleum giant quadrupled its spend on outdoor ads in 2024… even though it doesn’t sell anything directly to the public. Unusually, many of those...
by Comms Declare | Feb 20, 2025 | Articles, Political Advertising
There was some strange shenanigans on Meta in November, 2024.A fake independent was spotted on Facebook. Jonah Ryan’s photo appears to have been created by AI. His Facebook page (since deleted) and website (since deleted) were used to solicit emails for a...
