Now online by popular demand! Check out the slides from the digital advertising presentation Emily Gittleman and I delivered at Netroots Nation this morning. For more info, follow up with us individually — I’m on Twitter as @epolitics...
In the last six weeks, it seems like not a day goes by that we don’t see a big change announced by Facebook or Twitter. It’s a lot to keep track of, so we’ve decided to start doing Platform Update Notes on Fridays starting today...
Facebook banned data firm Cambridge Analytica from its social network on Friday. Their crime? Failing to delete a data set gathered via a Facebook app in 2014 that they’d agreed to destroy — including information from possibly 50 million...
New Epolitics.com contributor! Though I know him from his Campaigns & Elections days, Jordan Lieberman now serves as the political and public affairs lead for Audience Partners, an Altice Company. Have we reached Peak Cookie? Political...
If you’re running this year, every second is precious — and the early seconds are the most precious of all for digital organizers. Most online outreach is incremental, trench warfare rather than blitzkrieg. We recruit a few people today...
New Epolitics.com contributor Brett Gerstein is the CEO of Fliptide, which helps organizations gain supporters and win campaigns through digital advertising. For those of you who may not have noticed, several weeks ago, Google introduced some pretty...
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...
Tuesday is the day: Alabama will choose either Republican Roy Moore or Democrat Doug Jones to take the Senate seat Jeff Sessions abandoned to become U.S. Attorney General. Moore’s repellant past has dominated the national discussion about the...
So much news about Trump, Russia and the social media world, so little time to keep track. To help, I’ve created an reading list catch you up fast, which I’ll be updating as new stories break [Note: Updated 11/9/2017 w/articles marked as...
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...