The latest digital politics news and perspective, including a few highlights from late 2017. Send in good stories as you see them! Just email me or send a tweet. Facebook Overhauls News Feed to Focus on What Friends and Family Share. C.f. Facebook...
Brad Parscale was the first pure-digital consultant to run a major presidential campaign. The result? A campaign that prioritized online outreach over television ads. As he put it in his recent 60 Minutes interview, “Twitter was how he talked...
Beth Becker’s latest “Political Social Grab Bag” e-newsletter came out a few days ago and we have it here for your enjoyment. An Epolitics.com online exclusive! Sign up now to get the next Political Social Grab Bag delivered...
New from CNN: A number of Russian-linked Facebook ads specifically targeted Michigan and Wisconsin, two states crucial to Donald Trump’s victory last November, according to four sources with direct knowledge of the situation. Some of the...
Most political campaigns pinch pennies — if they can find a way to save a few bucks on voter outreach, they usually will. That’s one reason “addressable” advertising has become popular in the past five years, particularly at...
Happy 4th! When Quick Hits returns from a long vacation, you KNOW it’s a day to celebrate. Jon Ossoff, The Congressional Candidate Social Media Built. C.f. How the Democrats’ Online Strategy Went Haywire. On Ossoff and emails, via Shaun...
New Epolitics.com contributor! But not someone new to the field: I first met Eric Loeb in the early days of internet politics, probably at the 1997 Politics Online Conference. Even before that, on Eric’s first trip to DC, he tried to contact...
Donald Trump is fundraising gold — if you’re on his bad side. We’ve already seen activists pour money into advocacy groups like Planned Parenthood and the ACLU, in the latter case funding a massive expansion of their work. Via...
New contributor! This post comes to us from Mike Smith, CEO of GreenSmith Public Affairs, LLC in Reston, Virginia. Guess what: you’re leaving a trail of digital breadcrumbs wherever you go, and political marketers know it. When you sign-on to...
“She was warned…she was given an explanation. Nevertheless, she persisted.†That’s what Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said yesterday when the Senate censured Elizabeth Warren. Her crime: reading aloud a letter from Coretta Scott...