Paid-for social media campaigns and audience targeting information: FOI release
Information request and response under the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002.
FOI reference: FOI/18/00993
Date received: 28 March 2018
Date responded: 19 April 2018
Information requested
A list of individual, paid-for social media campaigns and audience targeting information used by the Scottish Government in each of the last five years.
To include campaign name, department/individual, audience targeting information in full, and the platform (i.e. Facebook, Twitter, etc.).
Response
I have enclosed a copy of all the information you requested, in the format that you requested (this is attached as a separate Excel file).
Advertising on social media platforms is a cost-effective way of targeting Scottish Government marketing campaigns to the particular audiences amongst whom we seek to influence attitudes or change behaviour.
All campaign targeting utilizes aggregated and anonymised first-party data and is fully compliant with current Data Protection laws.
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Contact
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Central Enquiry Unit
Email: ceu@gov.scot
Phone: 0300 244 4000
The Scottish Government
St Andrew's House
Regent Road
Edinburgh
EH1 3DG
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