You are reading AdExchanger Politics, our news roundup in which senior editor James Hercher tracks the latest developments in political advertising, augmenting our political marketing commentary and news coverage. Want it by email? Sign up here. How will coronavirus affect US politics? Beyond the direct impact on the economy, COVID-19 is upending political activity this year. In the […]
Michael Bloomberg’s Democratic primary campaign is finished, but is the Bloomberg media machine exiting the race as well? There is only speculation about how and how much Bloomberg will invest to back Joe Biden, who he endorsed when he dropped out, or on liberal advocacy campaigns. He seems intent on remaining a force in the […]
You are reading AdExchanger Politics, our news roundup in which senior editor James Hercher tracks the latest developments in political advertising, augmenting our political marketing commentary and news coverage. Want it by email? Sign up here. Super Tuesday is the presidential primary’s most important day, with 14 states, a third of delegates up for grabs, and a […]
“AdExchanger Politics” is a regular column tracking developments in the 2020 political campaign cycle. Today’s column is written by Daniel Sepulveda, senior vice president for policy and advocacy at MediaMath. Lawmakers and industry leaders have not yet reached consensus on digital political advertising rules. As a result, no one is satisfied with the platforms’ varying […]
Welcome to AdExchanger Politics, our news roundup in which senior editor James Hercher tracks the latest developments in political advertising, augmenting our political marketing commentary and news coverage. Want it by email? Sign up here. Sen. Elizabeth Warren embraced a new model for political campaigns last year with upfront investments in her campaign’s in-house media and data expertise. […]
Political advertising in the United States from 2019 through 2020 will total $6.9 billion, up 63.3% from the last presidential cycle, according to eMarketer’s first political spending forecast published on Wednesday. If electoral budgets do play out as eMarketer forecasts, it will show the enduring hold TV has in the political media world. Television will […]
Welcome to AdExchanger Politics, our reimagined news round-up in which senior editor James Hercher will track the latest developments in political advertising, augmenting our political marketing commentary and news coverage. Want it by email? Sign up here. The latest news: • The Iowa Democratic caucus ended in confusion and delay on Monday night, carrying into Tuesday […]
With the 2020 US presidential election cycle heating up, advertising and technology companies are once again jockeying to secure their share of the coming deluge of political media budgets. But the commercial tech crowd is taking a more judicious approach to political advertising this time around, having learned some hard lessons in 2015 and 2016, […]
Facebook clarified its political advertising policy on Thursday. And the update is: No update. Facebook has been at the center of a PR and policy firestorm over its political advertising policies since October, when President Trump’s reelection campaign ran an ad featuring a lie about Joe Biden and his son, Hunter Biden. At the same […]
“AdExchanger Politics” is a regular column tracking developments in the 2020 political campaign cycle. Today’s column is written by Jordan Lieberman, general manager of political and public affairs at A4. Dear proponents of political digital disclosure: I have some questions for you. Regulating paid political speech is hard, and nobody has gotten it right. Earlier […]
“AdExchanger Politics” is a regular column tracking developments in the 2020 political campaign cycle. Today’s column is written by Josh Hare, senior vice president at Viant. Looking forward to 2020, the influx of political advertising dollars will have a substantial impact on how commercial brands can effectively reach audiences. The equal-time rule created by the […]
“AdExchanger Politics” is a regular column tracking developments in the 2020 political campaign cycle. Today’s column is written by Mark Jablonowski, managing partner at DSPolitical. Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey recently announced that his social media platform would no longer allow political advertising. It was a move cheered on by prominent Democrats from Hillary Clinton to […]
Jack Dorsey was clearly enjoying himself when we tweeted at the end of October about Twitter’s plan to ban political advertising on the platform. But Twitter released its guidelines on Friday for what that will mean in practice, and although Twitter’s policy, which is set to go into effect on Nov. 22, does what it […]
People who live in cities like Boston or Chicago will probably see fewer campaign ads for the 2020 election compared to 2016. They can thank the rise of data-driven advertising for that small respite, as campaign ads shift from broad TV markets to targeted OTT and streaming video. Presidential candidates have historically inundated Boston and […]
Facebook’s controversy over its decision to allow politicians (but only politicians) to promote lies in ads has led to Twitter saying it would forbid political ads and Scott Galloway, a prescient tech industry analyst, predicting Facebook would ban political ads by Thanksgiving. Yet, if such a ban materialized, Democrats would feel the brunt of it. […]
Facebook is shoring up its political advertising policies in advance of the 2020 US presidential election, which, god help us all, looms large on the horizon. In a press call on Monday, Mark Zuckerberg laid out the steps Facebook has taken and will take to try and make sure that 2020 isn’t 2016 all over […]
Lying in digital advertisements has become a flashpoint in US politics this year. A running dispute between Elizabeth Warren’s presidential campaign and Facebook ratcheted up this weekend, after the Massachusetts senator posted an ad on the social platform featuring a lie that Facebook and CEO Mark Zuckerberg had endorsed Donald Trump for reelection. “You’re probably […]
Initially, it seemed fair to wonder whether Elizabeth Warren’s campaign could survive a long, grueling primary. The Warren campaign raised $6 million in the first quarter of the year, fifth most in the field, according to campaign disclosures released earlier this year. But it spent almost as much building up the operation, with 160 people […]
Big tech can’t swing a cat these days without hitting an antitrust investigation. Google, Facebook, Amazon and Apple are all facing varying degrees of heat from the Department of Justice, the Federal Trade Commission, state attorneys general across the nation, the House Judiciary Committee and competition authorities around the world. It’s hard to keep track […]
New York Attorney General Letitia James is leading a bipartisan investigation into whether Facebook engages in anticompetitive behavior to drive up ad prices. James, a Democrat, is being joined in her work, which will also look into whether Facebook’s actions have endangered consumer data and reduced the quality of consumer choice, by eight other state […]
Mark Jablonowski will present “How To Capture 2020 Political Ad Budgets” at AdExchanger’s upcoming PROGRAMMATIC I/O New York conference on October 15-16. Political campaigns spent $9.8 billion on advertising in the 2016 election cycle, up only $400 million from 2012. But political ads are expected to rocket up almost to $13 billion by November 2020, […]
Every state in the United States, plus Washington, DC, has an attorney general tasked with regulating, investigating and enforcing against noncompliant marketing practices. They’re known colloquially as “baby FTCs” – but don’t be fooled. They’ve got teeth. “Think of state attorneys general as the top cops in their respective state; they’ve got active consumer protection agendas […]
When the Democratic National Committee (DNC) introduced individual donor thresholds earlier this year for candidates to qualify for primary debates, it was trying to empower campaigns with grassroots support. But these new rules have also created a massive online audience acquisition spree. The first round of debates was relatively easy to qualify for – with […]
Lawmakers are crusading against big tech in bill after bill, and none seemingly more so than Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo. At age 39, Hawley is the youngest senator in Congress, and he’s the author of numerous bills that aim to loosen large technology platforms’ grip on power. The most recent bill, called the Social Media […]
Digital media and advertising expertise is moving up the political campaign hierarchy. The most direct example is Brad Parscale, the Trump campaign’s director of digital in 2016, who was made campaign manager for the 2020 reelection effort. But digital advertising is now the largest media expenditure for every major campaign on both sides of the […]
The programmatic advertising ecosystem is a mess – even its main architect agrees. In testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday, Brian O’Kelley, founder and former CEO of AT&T-owned AppNexus, shared a three-pronged proposal for how he’d start to fix the tangled web he helped weave. First, give consumers control and transparency over their data. […]
Remember Do Not Track? It’s back. Sen. Josh Hawley, R-MO, is reviving the decade old concept in proposed legislation that aims to let consumers opt out of online tracking beyond just browser-based activity. In its original form in 2011, Do Not Track (DNT) relied on voluntary participation from browsers to respect a consumer’s desire to […]
Facebook is trying to make it easier for people to get information about the ads running on its platform. Ad transparency – political ad transparency, in particular – has been a top priority at Facebook since it became clear that bad actors were running amok in the leadup to the 2016 presidential election. Starting Thursday, […]
“AdExchanger Politics” is a recurring feature that tracks developments in politics and digital advertising. Today’s column is written by Ray Kingman, CEO at Semcasting. In 2008, it was the one-click political donation via email. In 2012, it was social media outreach. In 2016, it was fake news on Twitter and Facebook. Following every election, political […]
With a divided Congress, don’t expect 2019 to usher in federal privacy legislation a la GDPR… or to see a breakup of big tech. Even if the midterms hadn’t shaken out as expected – with Republicans keeping the Senate and Democrats securing a majority in the House – the chance for congressional action on either […]
