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...
Following Twitter’s recent political ad cop-out, last week Google announced new restrictions on political advertising on its digital platforms, including YouTube. Unlike Trump’s favorite microblogging platform, Google will still allow...
Great stat from the Democratic National Committee’s head of digital fundraising, Clarke Humphrey, at today’s CampaignTech Innovation Summit: 30% of the DNC’s digital income arrives via recurring donations. Thirty percent! So...
When Twitter announced that it would ban all political ads (including the issue-focused variety), I wasn’t shy about what I thought: I called it a cop-out. Why? Twitter wants the best of all possible worlds — for itself. It’s...
Hi folks, apologies for being awol for so long. After the book party, I was burned out and needed a break. Unfortunately, that turned into a spiral of procrastination, angst, wailing, moaning, gnashing of teeth and other fun times. Last week, I...
Are we on the verge of the worst online political fight in the history of the medium? Certainly the nastiest one that has real consequences: in this case, the leadership of the most powerful country in the world. Donald Trump has already escalated...
If it’s midnight in Moscow, what time is it in Kentucky? Via PoliticalWire, the Democratic PAC American Bridge has launched an extension for the Chrome web browser that will automatically replace the words “Mitch McConnell” in any...
Hey gang! Time for a [slightly belated] book-release party for the 2019 edition of “How to Use the Internet to Change the World – and Win Elections”. Even more better: a party with a panel of digital politics experts to teach us a...
Congratulations to Andrew Yang! As of Monday, his campaign had raked in over $1 million in donations and at least 450,000 new email subscribers since he announced his Universal Basic Income giveaway (ten lucky winners will take home $1000 per month...
New Epolitics.com contributor! Myles Bugbee is a digital strategist who has consulted from city council to congressional to presidential campaigns. During the 2018 cycle, he directed Sen. Jon Tester’s digital program and was dubbed “Mr...