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Public Pulse
Political Facebook Advertising · Bangladesh

Move a constituency on Facebook — run to the letter of Meta’s rules.

Public Pulse plans, authorizes, and runs Facebook & Instagram advertising for Bangladeshi candidates and parties — audience-first, message-disciplined, and fully inside Meta’s political-ad transparency regime. No bought engagement. No shortcuts that get an account shut down mid-campaign.

Brief · DefinitionPP/FB-01
Political Facebook advertising in Bangladesh is the disciplined use of Meta’s paid tools — boosted posts and Ads Manager campaigns — to reach a defined electorate, run only from an authorized ad account carrying a “Paid for by” disclaimer, targeted by geography and interest rather than protected traits, and measured against a single campaign objective. Public Pulse runs it end-to-end from Dhaka.
Entity
Registered BD company · BIN + Trade License
Process
Meta ad-authorization & disclaimer on every account
Terms
NDA by default · one candidate per constituency
§ 01 — Scope

Not “boost and hope.” A paid operation with a plan behind every taka.

Most candidates in Bangladesh already boost posts. Few run a campaign. The difference is whether spend is attached to a defined audience, a tested message, and a number you’re trying to move — or whether it’s ৳500 dropped on whatever the page manager posted that morning.

We treat a Facebook budget the way a campaign treats a rally: a plan, a route, a headcount target, and a debrief. Boosting has its place — it’s how you amplify a moment that’s already working. But durable reach through a constituency comes from Ads Manager: proper audiences, message variants, frequency control, and daily reallocation toward whatever is actually landing.

§ 02 — Method

Four movements, in order. Rigor is the whole edge.

The sequence is deliberate. Authorization gates everything; audience defines message; message defines creative; measurement decides where the next taka goes.

01 · AUTH
Authorize
Confirm identity and location, register the “Paid for by” disclaimer, and stand up a compliant ad account before a single taka is spent. This is the step most local operators skip — and the reason their ads get pulled at the worst moment.
02 · AUD
Audience
Map the constituency to Meta’s geo and interest layers — location radius, age, language (Bangla-first creative), device and data reality. Political targeting sits under a restricted category, so we build reach on geography and affinity, never on protected traits.
03 · MSG
Message
One narrative, several proofs. We produce Bangla-first creative — candidate record, local issue, public-service documentation — as testable variants, not a single hero post. The message that moves a rural union is rarely the one that moves an urban ward.
04 · MSR
Measure
One objective per campaign, tracked daily. Frequency capped so we don’t burn the audience. Budget moves toward the wards, messages, and hours that perform — with a written weekly read the campaign manager can actually act on.
§ 03 — Compliance

The rules aren’t red tape. They’re the difference between a live campaign and a dead account.

Meta enforces a specific regime for ads about social issues, elections and politics. We run every account to it — because a suspension in the final week is unrecoverable.

Clause · Authorization

Identity & location confirmation

Anyone running political ads must be authorized by Meta — a verified identity plus a confirmed in-country location. We complete this per account, ahead of the campaign, so nothing stalls at launch.

Clause · Disclaimer

“Paid for by” on every ad

Political ads carry a visible disclaimer naming who paid. It’s registered once, applied to every ad, and it’s what keeps the campaign on the right side of both Meta and public scrutiny.

Clause · Category

Special Ad Category limits

Political advertising restricts targeting — no narrowing by age, gender, or detailed traits the way commercial ads can. We build reach within those limits, on geography and legitimate affinity.

Clause · Transparency

Public Ad Library, by design

Every political ad is archived in Meta’s public Ad Library for years. We write and target assuming full public visibility — because it is public. Nothing runs that we couldn’t defend on the record.

§ 04 — Terrain

Built for how Bangladesh actually uses Facebook.

National playbooks don’t survive contact with a Bangladeshi constituency. Four realities shape every plan we run.

R-01

Bangla-first creative

Reach and trust live in Bangla. English creative under-delivers outside a few urban pockets. Copy, captions, and voiceover are authored in Bangla, with dialect judgment for the seat, not translated after the fact.

R-02

Mobile, data-light

The electorate is on mid-range Android over metered data. Creative is built to land in the first second, legible on a small screen, and to work with sound off — because that’s how most of it is seen.

R-03

Constituency geography

We target the seat, not the country — location radius tuned to union, ward, and upazila lines, with spend weighted toward the pockets that decide the margin, not vanity reach across places that don’t vote here.

R-04

Taka efficiency

Budgets are real and finite. We plan in BDT against reach and frequency the campaign can sustain to polling day, and we say plainly when a boost is enough and when it isn’t.

§ 05 — Budget

Illustrative planning ranges, in taka.

Management fee, separate from media spend. Ranges for scoping only — every constituency gets a real plan on the briefing call. These are planning figures, not a performance promise.

EngagementBest forManagement feeSuggested media / mo
Boost deskAmplifying moments on an existing page৳50,000+ / mo৳50k – ৳2L
Constituency campaignSingle seat, full Ads Manager operation৳1,50,000+ / mo৳3L – ৳12L
Multi-seat / partyCoordinated push across constituencies৳3,00,000+ / moScoped per plan

MEDIA SPEND PAID TO META, SEPARATE FROM FEE · NDA-PROTECTED · ONE CANDIDATE PER CONSTITUENCY PER CYCLE

§ 06 — Standing

Why the method is the proof.

Every serious agency will show you screenshots. Screenshots are the easiest thing in the world to fake — and in political work, the last thing you should trust. So we lead with what can’t be faked: a registered Bangladeshi entity, a compliant authorization process on every account, NDA terms, and a written method a campaign manager can hold us to.

[ BENCHMARK · FORTHCOMING ] We’re compiling first-party Bangladesh political-ad cost benchmarks — CPM, reach efficiency by division — from our own managed campaigns, to publish dated and sourced. We’d rather ship one real number than borrow ten.

§ 07 — Questions

What campaigns actually ask.

Is running political ads on Facebook even legal in Bangladesh?+
Yes — political advertising on Meta is permitted, but it’s a regulated category. You must be authorized (identity + location confirmed), carry a “Paid for by” disclaimer, and accept that every ad is archived publicly. We run only inside that regime. What isn’t legitimate — fake engagement, undisclosed spend, impersonation — we don’t touch, on principle and because it gets accounts and pages destroyed.
Boosting vs. Ads Manager — which do we need?+
Boosting amplifies a post that’s already resonating; it’s fast and blunt. Ads Manager gives you real audiences, message variants, frequency control, and daily optimization — which is what actually carries a message through a constituency. Most winning operations use both: Ads Manager as the engine, boosting to ride a moment. We’ll tell you honestly when a boost is all you need.
How much should a constituency campaign budget?+
It depends on the seat’s size, the timeline, and how contested it is — which is why the ranges above are for scoping only. Management fee is separate from media spend, and media is paid directly to Meta. On the briefing call we build a real number against your constituency and your calendar, not a template.
Will you work with our opponent too?+
No. One candidate per constituency per cycle. Every engagement is NDA-protected by default. Your strategy, targeting, and creative never leave the room.
How early should we start?+
Authorization alone can take days, and audience-building compounds over time — so the earlier the better. We can stand up a compliant operation quickly when the calendar is tight, but the campaigns that win on Facebook are the ones that started building reach months before polling, not in the final fortnight.
Request a campaign briefing

Bring us the seat. We’ll bring the plan.

A confidential 30-minute briefing: your constituency, your timeline, and a straight read on what a compliant Facebook operation would cost and deliver. No pitch theatre.

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