It would be good to compare Amazon advertising spend as well.
This article is also missing the fact that we're in an election year in the U.S. The ad spend from that alone could counter a lot of the losses from covid 19.
Trump spent very little in his first election campaign, mainly relying on saying outrageous things and tweeting (one estimate was that he added $2 billion to the value of the Twitter brand.)
How little? Enough that all the Silicon Valley advertising companies missed their quarter, either unaware or wilfully ignorant that he wasn't spending money.
This article is also missing the fact that we're in an election year in the U.S. The ad spend from that alone could counter a lot of the losses from covid 19.