Fifty-one good stories about digital politics and advocacy. Biden spends $1.4 million on digital ads in less than 2 weeks. Covers Google, Facebook and Twitter, and has a good comparison chart. C.f Billionaire digital ad wars, which includes Trump...
Greetings from lovely Austin, Texas! I’m here for the Campaigns & Elections Reed Awards, and Epolitics contributor Laura Packard and I are on stage tomorrow for a discussion about campaign ethics (oxymoron?). After that, tacos. But...
Good stories from the past few weeks. Town hall? 120 people. Live-streamed chicken dinner? 257,000 views on Facebook. “Democratic strategists say the quest to capture the attention of Democrats online, through social streams and viral sharing...
Halloween’s long over, but we still have plenty of dark stories to tell in this pre-election edition of Quick Hits: No One Is Buying More Political Ads on Facebook Right Now Than Beto O’Rourke. Lots and lots of fundraising ads out of state...
Top photo via Wikipedia The Parkland students continue to amaze — just today, I read about how David Hogg launched an advertiser boycott against conservative talk show host Laura Ingraham in the few HOURS after she mocked his rejection from...
Hi folks, this post is coming to you live from downtown Chicago, where a bevy of fine digital campaign folks have gathered for C&E’s latest CampaignTech event. Among the assembled luminaries: our old friend Laura Packard, whose work has...
Clinton rules Twitter during Republican debate with these epic trolls of her rivals. ‘How to move to Canada’ trending after Trump win on Super Tuesday, via Laura Packard. Even as He Rises, Donald Trump Entertains Conspiracy Theories that...
We’ll have Super Tuesday follow-up soon, but first, regular Epolitics.com contributor and digital strategist Laura Packard (of PowerThru Consulting) guides us through important digital lessons we can learn from this year’s Reed Award...
Regular contributor Laura Packard spotted something noteworthy at the last Republican undercard debate: Rick Santorum invited viewers to Google his name. What? His Permanent Record had been permanently tagged years ago by a well orchestrated...
It’s the State of the Union, huzzah! For political communicators, this is a special time of year…one in which we get to earn our keep. Now that the internet has shrunk our rapid response cycles from hours to seconds, advocates use a big...