Quick Hits is back! Let’s clear the queue and try to do these more regularly.
- Marco Rubio would like to sell you this broken watch. Note that that this went up during the Thursday debate, as he was launching his “selling watches” attack on Trump.
- Cruz fires spokesman over tweet about story falsely accusing Rubio of negative comment about Bible, and CNN bans Trump supporter Roger Stone after nasty, bigoted tweets. C.f. Taken out by Twitter: A brief history of political social-media screwups.
- How Bernie Sanders became the king of “dank memes”.
- Rev Messaging gets carrier buy-in for text donations, as Cruz partners with Prosper Group on text donations. C.f. Democratic group sees surge in mobile political donations.
- Christie Sells Email List to Rubio.
- Why campaigns love AOL addresses.
- ImNotKiddingMaddi trends after Hillary Clinton sends email asking for a dollar after New Hampshire vote.
- Twitter’s role in Scalia replacement backlash.
- #MemeOfTheWeek: Jeb!, A Gun And ‘America.’.
- GOP Candidates Use Twitter Taunts, Social Media to Tear Down Opponents, Build Campaigns. An elevated campaign, if I ever saw one.
- ‘Feel the Bern’? Maybe Not on Tinder. A bridge too far for digital organizing.
- What Twitter thinks about the Republican campaigns.
- ClickZ cases the candidates: social media.
- Snapchat Bets Big on Quick-Fire Approach to Campaign Coverage.
- Cory Booker: Senator Snapchat.
- Check out Bernie’s social organizing tool.
- How Sanders raised all that money, and Sanders’s army of coders.
- Bernie Sanders Is the Most Reblogged 2016 Candidate on Tumblr.
- Young voters are failing Bernie Sanders, just as they’ve failed so many before.
- New Reuters app lets you build your own magic candidate.
- Meet the 20 Tech Insiders Defining the 2016 Campaign.
- Trump’s Campaign Has Spread Beyond Early-To-Vote States. He’s also building a data operation, using L2, Repulican data and Eventbrite. C.f. Ted Cruz’s data-driven microtargeting.
- Trump as a creature of this media age, and How the internet helped create Donald Trump.
- The Most Powerful Man in the GOP (And You’ve Never Heard Of Him).
- Presidential Campaigns Harness Powers Of Search Engine Optimization.
- What Twitter Pundits Are Saying About the Republican Debate.
- Presidential Election Marketing, According to Campaign Swag.
- Useful content marketing metrics.
- The Best and Worst Mobile Ad formats.
- SC dirty tricks tracking tool.
- How the USGS detects earthquakes using Twitter.
- Tech Startups Target Phone Vendors .
- Instagram Spotlights vs Snapchat Stories vs Twitter Moments.
- Humans are losing the battle against social media algorithms.
- I am ‘NPR Chicken.’ Here’s how I got 1,200 Twitter followers in 2 days. 5 social media marketing lessons from a parody account.
- The new way to GOTV.
- Google vs. Apple and the Nonprofit App Dilemma.
- The GOP Is Throwing Away Millions of Dollars on big TV buys.
- At The Conversation: “The Activists’ Playbook Behind Obama’S Keystone Rejectionâ€, and A Digital Team Is Helping Obama Find His Voice Online.
- The New York Times to utilize L2’s National Voter File.
- Upworthy changes course; lays off 14 to focus resources on video. Plus,
- Gawker’s a political site.
- 5 Ways to Get Your Organization Thinking Mobile First.
- 5 Fundraising Trends That Will Have You Reaping Rewards or Bracing for Impact.
- 10 mobile marketing themes to look out for in 2016.
- So, THAT Happened…In-the-Trenches Reflections on December Online Fundraising Campaigns (Add Yours!).
- The Triumph of Email: Why does one of the world’s most reviled technologies keep winning?.
- TV ads just aren’t working the way they used to. C.f. How digital changes TV ads.
- Sanders Launched a Drinking-Game-Style Texting Donation System For GOP Debate.
- A History Of Data In American Politics (Part 1): William Jennings Bryan to Barack Obama.
- The Koch Brothers’ intelligence agency.
- Political mail shops roll out DIY options.
- Inside the world of Donald Trump’s superfans. Note role of social media.
- Nearly half of students get news about 2016 campaigns via Facebook. We are all going to die.
- Dread is vanishing from the animal world. Here’s why that’s a bad thing. They must never have heard of Trump.
- And finally: The Twitter meme so stupid that we literally can’t make sense of it.
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– cpd