Elon Musk, talking Saturday throughout a Twitter Areas broadcast, stated that Apple had “absolutely resumed” promoting with the corporate. Apple was Twitter’s largest advertiser beforehand.
The announcement adopted a quick Tweet Friday night thanking advertisers for returning to the model. That adopted a report from tech outlet Platformer than Amazon was resuming advertisements on the social media website, and plans to spend $100 million per yr.
Amazon, nonetheless, by no means stopped promoting on the platform, a supply conversant in the matter instructed Fortune, making it unclear precisely who Musk was thanking.
Neither firm has publicly mentioned its promoting plans with reference to Twitter. And there’s no reported standing change from Interpublic Group (IPG), one of many world’s largest promoting firms, which really helpful its shoppers pause spending on Twitter final month, as a consequence of moderation issues. The corporate’s shoppers embrace Walmart, American Specific, Coca-Cola, Fitbit, GoPro, Johnson & Johnson, Levi Strauss & Co, Mattel and Spotify. It manages roughly $40 billion in advertising campaigns worldwide.
Advertiser reticence has been certainly one of Musk’s greatest issues since his takeover of the corporate. In November, he went on a rant about activist teams pressuring firms about Twitter’s moderation insurance policies and excessive cost-cutting strategies.
“Twitter has had an enormous drop in income, as a consequence of activist teams pressuring advertisers, though nothing has modified with content material moderation and we did every little thing we might to appease the activists,” he wrote. “Extraordinarily tousled! They’re attempting to destroy free speech in America.”
The anti-free speech declare is a go-to for Musk when he feels promoting income is being threatened. Throughout his latest dust-up with Apple, the place he briefly accused the corporate of attempting to dam Twitter from its app retailer and halting most promoting, he posited “Do they hate free speech in America?”
Twitter’s advertiser issues have come at a vital time. The vacation interval, in addition to the World Cup, are peak promoting spend durations. And Twitter, seemingly, is lacking out on a lot of that largess.
Amazon declined to touch upon the document to Fortune. Apple didn’t instantly return Fortune’s request for remark.
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