Paid social ads that don't publish to your brand's public profile. Only the targeted user sees them. Useful for message testing, audience segmentation, and running different offers to different segments without surfacing every variation publicly. The name sounds ominous; the application is fairly routine.
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Technical definition
Social media ads that don't appear on the advertiser's timeline and are only visible to targeted users.
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