Are “viral” fundraising videos replacing TV ads? The New York Times evidently thinks so. Will they dethrone email as the king of digital political fundraising? The short answer: no time soon. But, the fact that Democratic candidates have...
Just what we needed: something ELSE to be scared of in 2018. The technology to create realistic fake video and audio is moving fast, as I discuss in my latest Campaigns & Elections column. What happens when someone can “make” a...
Update: Bridge Project is also running digital ads targeting 24 House Republicans over the vote. James Hohmann and the Daily 202 crew at the Post bring us a nice scoop today: The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee is launching a digital ad...
Was anyone truly surprised to learn that Donald Trump bragged about forcing himself on women in the “Access Hollywood” video released Friday? If you were, you haven’t been paying attention — from Meghyn Kelly to Miss Piggy...
New contributor! Crystal Borde is an associate director at Vanguard Communications, and she joins us with great insights about last week’s congressional live-streaming extravaganza, along with tips for communicators inspired to follow in the...
New Epolitics.com contributor! Alex Dickinson is Director & Chief of Staff with Beekeeper Group. Follow her on Twitter at @alexmae, and be sure to check out last week’s big-picture analysis of the Congressional live-streaming. Remember...
First things first: Periscope may be just over a year old, but live-streaming video isn’t exactly new: I remember being at events broadcast via (now-defunct) Qik more than half a decade ago. And, we first explored the basics of using Periscope...
We’ll have Super Tuesday follow-up soon, but first, regular Epolitics.com contributor and digital strategist Laura Packard (of PowerThru Consulting) guides us through important digital lessons we can learn from this year’s Reed Award...
The mobile video future is now! The people who make estimates have estimated that half of all views of online videos in 2016 will be on smart phones or tablets. The most recent edition of Technology Bytes asks us to think about the implications for...
Knowing that Twitter is a 2016 political battlefield, the Clinton campaign wants to send her supporters to the trenches. Shaun Dakin sends along this email he received after signing up to tweet on behalf of HRC: Hi there — Thank you for...