Yearly breakdown of how much is spent on Facebook: FOI release
- Published
- 18 July 2022
- Topic
- Public sector
- FOI reference
- FOI/202200306645
- Date received
- 19 June 2022
- Date responded
- 12 July 2022
Information request and response under the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002.
Information requested
A yearly breakdown on how much the Scottish Government spends on Facebook from 2015 to 19 June 2022.
Response
Please see below a breakdown of Scottish Government Facebook advertising spend by year for 2015 to 2022, present day.
|
Year |
Amount Spent (UK Pounds)* |
|
2015 |
£203,468 |
|
2016 |
£213,823 |
|
2017 |
£223,124 |
|
2018 |
£284,865 |
|
2019 |
£429,182 |
|
2020 |
£1,695,492 |
|
2021 |
£2,378,074 |
|
2022 (to present day) |
£183,757 |
*These are gross costs and include expenditure with Instagram as it is not possible to determine spend by specific platform within the Meta group, which covers Facebook, Instagram, Messenger and Whatsapp.
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