The 2021 general elections in Peru took place in an unusual context generated by many factors. In addition to taking place within the bicentennial year of the country's independence and having eighteen presidential candidates, the electoral process was marked by a deep political crisis and the COVID-19 pandemic. In this context, the present research aims to understand how the political communication of the candidates and their political parties was managed on social media during the first round of these presidential elections. To find this, a metric analysis is applied oriented to the presence and activity of candidates and political parties in social media. The findings reveal a high level of presence of candidates and political parties, a clear phenomenon of personalization in political communication and the concentration of posts, especially in Facebook and Twitter.

The early presence of adolescents in social networks (SN) and their prolonged exposure to influencer advertising, a non-invasive tactic focused on short-term advertising objectives with influencers as the digital advertising system's pillar, have placed them at risk. Evidence indicates hybridization in advertising (Feijoo et al., 2021; Feijoo, et al., 2023; Suárez-Álvarez and Pastor-Rodríguez, 2023) and limited capabilities of the adolescent to recognize advertising if it is not signaled (Evans et al., 2017; Feijoo et al., 2021; Martins et al., 2023; Zozaya Durazo et al., 2022; Zozaya-Durazo and Sádaba-Chalezquer, 2022). This prevents him from activating a critical attitude toward advertising (Evans et al., 2017; Feijoo et al., 2021; Feijoo et al., 2023; Zozaya Durazo et al., 2022). Therefore, it is essential to understand how they interact, perceive, and respond to influencer advert...