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John W. Hickenlooper US Inactive

HICKENLOOPER FOR COLORADO

ad creative

DONATE NOW: Elect Hick!

We need your help now.

Ad copy

We just made a hard decision that might’ve cost us this election: We launched a new ad to fight back against Republican attacks on our campaign — even though we don’t have the money in our budget. This is a make-or-break moment. We need your help to ensure our campaign to elect John Hickenlooper has the resources necessary to stay up on TV and fight back. Will you rush a $10 donation now?

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Performance proxies

Overall score50.5/100
Spend / Reach / Long. / Eff.63.0 · 85.0 · 1.9 · 52.3
Spend rangeUSD 15,000–19,999
Impressions200,000 – 249,999
CPM (≈ $/1k impr)USD 77.78
Est. audience size500,001 – 1,000,000
Days live8 (2020-10-25 → 2020-11-02)
Created2020-10-25
Creative variants1 body · 1 headline
Platformsfacebook
Languagesen
CandidateCO — John Hickenlooper
Surfaced by“senate:John Hickenlooper”

🧠 AI analysis

Issuedemocracy elections
Framingpositive candidate
Message typefundraising
Emotional appealurgency
Production tierunknown
Who picturedcandidate
Symbolsnone
Call to actiondonate
Standout elementFacebook content-removed placeholder replacing the actual ad creative, exposing the ad's disclaimer issue
TacticThe ad uses urgency and scarcity framing ('make-or-break moment,' 'might've cost us this election') to pressure supporters into donating $10 to fund a counter-attack ad against Republican opponents.

Where it ran (delivery by region)

California16.3%
Colorado8.9%
New York7.0%
Florida4.9%
Texas4.8%
Washington4.6%
Massachusetts3.9%

Who saw it (delivery)

45-54 · unknown 0.1%
55-64 · female 16.3%
18-24 · female 0.1%
25-34 · male 0.9%
45-54 · male 4.7%
65+ · female 35.5%
55-64 · male 8.7%
65+ · male 18.4%
35-44 · female 3.2%
35-44 · unknown 0.1%
45-54 · female 7.3%
35-44 · male 2.6%
55-64 · unknown 0.4%
65+ · unknown 0.7%
25-34 · female 0.9%
25-34 · unknown 0.0%
18-24 · unknown 0.0%
18-24 · male 0.1%

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