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. 2019 Feb 26;17:100238. doi: 10.1016/j.invent.2019.02.002

Table 2.

Recruitment-focused phase (U.S.) n = 540: recruitment costs and performance metrics by language including posts and ads.

Metric type Total Spanish English
Impressions 1,430,119 901,367 528,752
Reach 1,034,038 632,339 401,699
Frequency 1.38 1.45 1.32
Link clicks 25,835 16,486 9349
UOC 23,613 15,072 8541
Shares 1887 1513 374
Comments 491 359 132
Reactions 3828 3120 708
Social reach 8359 7106 1253
CTR, % 1.81 1.83 1.77
CPC, US$ $0.43 $0.43 $0.44
Consent to the study (FB) 540 275 265
 Facebook mobile 475 266 209
 Facebook website 65 9 56
Conversion rate (FB) 2.29% 1.82% 3.10%
Total spent $11,203.40 $7098.96 $4104.44
Cost-per-consent (FB, US$) $20.75 $25.81 $15.49

Note. CPC = cost-per-click; CTR = click-through-rate; FB = Facebook; UOC = Unique Outbound Clicks; all costs measured in U.S. dollars (US$).