Quick update: while we were lounging around the e.politics bunker on our recent publishing break, media calls just kept on a-comin’ in. The highlights: [NPR] Obama, Romney Campaigns Taking ‘See What Sticks’ Approach To Web Videos...
Lots of online talk today about the Obama campaign’s new two-minute(!) anti-Romney attack ad airing in battleground states. Here’s the video, and note the RomneyEconomics.com website promoted via a custom overlay: This video is...
Guest article! Aiden Livingston is the Marketing and Communications Director for Call2Action, a company I’ve been helping out here and there for the past couple of years. Call2Action focuses on leveraging video for advocacy and list-building...
Video time! NWLC’s “My Health is Not Up for Debate” reproductive rights campaign has just come out with a new video, and guess who has a “starring” role! I get to be a pharmacist protesting, well, take a look and see...
With all the talk the last couple of weeks about the Kony 2012 video — including why it went viral — let’s go back a few months to Epolitics.com’s own contribution to the literature of virality, which broke 1000 views on...
New guest author! Michael Khoo is Vice-President for Communications at Population Action International and an old friend — he happens to live a couple of floors about the e.politics bunker (sorry about the noise, dude). Check out his take on...
Guest article! In the piece below, Abigail Collazo (editor of @Fem2pt0 and a progressive communicator, feminist organizer and Democratic strategist, currently at Turner Strategies) looks at a viral phenomenon that made the NY Times today. This piece...
From our friends at FlackCheck.org, a new organization spun off from FactCheck.org that looks at political advertising: Not bad at all! Musical numbers ain’t easy, and illustrating the ad trends this way is a lot more compelling than some dry...
Howdy folks, we’ve had a busy morning over at the day job — it’s campaign launch time! And we have some great materials to work with, starting with the first of three snazzy videos: Yep, it’s a reproductive rights campaign...
Latest video from my discussion with Meltwater‘s Kimling Lam and Ashley Hillis! When you’re done, also check out the first two installments.
– cpd