New Epolitics.com contributor! Brent Merritt is a digital strategy consultant at Metric Communications, LLC. Check out his recommendations for list-building via digital ads below, and when you’re done, be sure to browse past Epolitics.com...
“The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that man may become robots.” – Erich Fromm Danger? Or opportunity…. With that in mind, I offer you my look at the next ten years of digital...
Republicans keep outspending Democrats on persuasion advertising, and this time it’s not just the president: The difference is especially stark on Facebook, where more than 100 congressional Republican incumbents and challengers and national...
I’m speaking on a panel about digital video at a wind-energy conference in Houston this week, and I prepared this piece as a one-page handout to leave behind with the audience. We could say a lot more about about video promotion online, but...
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...
Hi folks, a quick note to say that we are back in business here at Epolitics.com. I was out of action for a few weeks because of life: family issues, a brief-but-gnarly illness, gigs with rock-and-roll bands, new business, travel and more. But as of...
The digital side of Senator Kamala Harris’s campaign launch got good reviews this week, as Sam Stein and Gideon Resnick note at The Daily Beast: Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) announced on Tuesday that her presidential campaign exploratory...
Sixty-six excellent stories about digital politics, advocacy and bad behavior. Russia’s Pro-Trump Disinformation Campaign Used Every Major Social Media Platform. C.f. How Russia Hacked U.S. Politics With Instagram Marketing. Congress Now Has a...
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...