Global Komunika : Jurnal Ilmu Sosial dan Ilmu Politik
Vol 8 No 2 (2025): Global Komunika Vol. 8 No. 2 2025

How Facebook Still Matters: the Battle of Campaign Strategy in Bantul Election

Dwianto, Rahmad Agus (Unknown)
Darmawan, Arief Bakhtiar (Unknown)
Santoso, Joko (Unknown)
Nurmandi, Achmad (Unknown)
Purnomo, Eko Priyo (Unknown)
Suswanta, Suswanta (Unknown)



Article Info

Publish Date
20 Jul 2025

Abstract

This study aims to analyze digital political campaigns using Facebook Ads. Political campaigns in this digital era are carried out through social media to attract the engagement of prospective voters. This research uses a case study of the Facebook ads campaign of one of the winning pairs for the regional head election in Bantul, Indonesia. Facebook as a social media for campaigning. The results of this study indicate that the Facebook Ads campaign successfully reached the target audience. The total reach during the 30 days ad serving period was 646,142. This figure is categorized as high because when compared to the number of voters registered in the final voter list for the Bantul election (704,688), this figure has reached most of the targeted voters. Similar to reach, Facebook Ads campaign impression data also fluctuated during the ad serving period. The total number of impressions during 30 days of ad serving was 669,149. The more often the ad appears on the users’ Facebook page, the greater the opportunity for the ad to be read and observed by the audience.

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Journal Info

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GlobalKomunika

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Humanities Languange, Linguistic, Communication & Media Social Sciences

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Global Komunika : Jurnal Ilmu Sosial dan Ilmu Politik adalah jurnal ilmiah yang memuat artikel ilmiah dari ilmu sosial, ilmu politik, ilmu komunikasi dan ilmu sosiologi. (e-ISSN 2655-5328 dan ISSN ...