In a bizarre, unruly year for political advertising, an analysis of 2016 campaign, party and super PAC spending does reveal one consistent theme: the rise of targetable media. “It turned the page on what will happen in political spending moving forward, because targeted marketing absolutely replaced mass media,” said Kip Cassino, the executive VP of […]
Advertising trade groups are seizing the political moment in a bid to dismantle the Federal Communications Commission’s recently passed broadband consumer privacy laws. With the commission on the cusp of a Republican majority – Chairman Tom Wheeler has said he’ll step down on inauguration day – the writing could be on the wall for the FCC’s […]
For YouTube, the recent election cycle was the best of times and the worst of times. Multiple campaign sources think the Google-owned video network remained the single largest platform for political video dollars (aside from TV networks), despite Facebook’s meteoric rise. “YouTube is the second most trafficked site in the US, so it played a […]
As expected, Tom Wheeler will leave his post as FCC chairman on inauguration day and his legacy looks shaky. Likely on the chopping block in a Republican-majority FCC are the commission’s recently ratified ISP privacy rules and a reclassification of broadband providers as common carriers, seen by many as an encroachment on the Federal Trade […]
“AdExchanger Politics” is a recurring feature tracking developments in politics and digital advertising. Today’s column is written by Ramez Karkar, director of data architecture at Mediavest | Spark. Political critics declared big data dead after nearly every major media poll had predicted Hillary Clinton to be the clear winner of the 2016 presidential election. Put […]
Ad tech companies flocked to Washington, DC, during the recent election cycle in pursuit of political ad budgets, but many were disappointed. Rocket Fuel was the most aggressive newcomer, adding approximately 15 people to its DC office for political business development beginning last summer. But the company dismissed most of those hires in the week […]
“AdExchanger Politics” is a weekly column tracking developments in the 2016 political campaign cycle. Today’s column is written by Jordan Lieberman, politics and public affairs lead at Audience Partners. One year ago, AdExchanger published an article focusing on the number of digital vendors moving into the political and public affairs market. The pivotal quote: “The […]
It’s illegal to display political ads or messages, solicit supporters, hand out campaign paraphernalia or try to affect voters’ preferences in almost any way once they’re within a roughly 100-foot radius of a polling location. But sophisticated location-based mobile advertising has exposed a loophole in those laws, wherein campaigns target mobile ads to people while […]
“AdExchanger Politics” is a weekly column tracking developments in the 2016 political campaign cycle. Today’s column is written by JC Medici, national director of politics and advocacy at Rocket Fuel. The idea of a third-party vendor is nothing new, especially as new technologies are developed and attention spans shrink. Every day, more options materialize to […]
“AdExchanger Politics” is a weekly column tracking developments in the 2016 political campaign cycle. Today’s column is written by Michael Balabanov, account director at AOL. If we treated political advertising the same way we treated consumer advertising, we’d pull wide swaths of demographic data – female, 18-34 years old, educated – and spray them with […]
Democrat Karen Jacobs isn’t running any TV ads while campaigning for a state House seat in Texas. Even cheaper regional and local broadcast inventory is expensive because her squiggly district northeast of Dallas – known as one of the nation’s most gerrymandered – must hit multiple markets. The district skews heavily Republican so any TV spending would […]
“AdExchanger Politics” is a weekly column tracking developments in the 2016 political campaign cycle. Today’s column is written by Joseph Lavan, vice president of data and insights at Netmining. We are officially in election crunch time. In the weeks leading up to the first presidential debate and in the days after, campaign rhetoric has ramped […]
A growing number of political ad tech and data analytics companies are pitching their services to brands and agencies. It’s been a challenging election cycle for political technology firms, which have been fending off agnostic companies that see tech as fundamentally more important than partisan affiliation. These newcomers have successfully pried open budgets that were […]
“AdExchanger Politics” is a weekly column tracking developments in the 2016 political campaign cycle. Today’s column is written by Gary Kibel, a partner in the digital media, technology and privacy practice group at Davis & Gilbert. If you don’t like being retargeted by an online retailer, click the AdChoices icon and opt out of the provider […]
Every year, voter-targeting firms sell audience segments based on trending issues. “We look into our crystal ball and think about what’s going to be big come November,” said Andrew Drechsler, CRO at the liberal data firm HaystaqDNA. And this year, everybody’s crystal ball is showing the same thing: voters who are willing to split or […]
“AdExchanger Politics” is a weekly column tracking developments in the 2016 political campaign cycle. Today’s column is written by Sean Cullen, executive vice president of product and technology at Fluent. Email marketing was critical for campaign fundraising and voter engagement during the 2012 presidential election. The Obama campaign reportedly acquired more than 13 million unique […]
Digital ad experts are rising in the political campaign world, but digital’s unique measurement capabilities aren’t coming with them. A big part of the problem is that the nature of voting defies measurement. “On the political side, there’s only one interaction a person takes [i.e., his or her vote], and you don’t know for months […]
“AdExchanger Politics” is a weekly column tracking developments in the 2016 political campaign cycle. Today’s column is written by Theresa Mueller, director of political and advocacy at Rubicon Project. The 2016 presidential election marks what is expected to be the largest digital election in history, but with the flood of more than 1 billion dollars […]
Is it the politics, or are gold-plated faucets not as desirable as they used to be? While Trump’s brand and marketability have boosted his presidential run, a collection of data points – including geolocation data tracking foot traffic to his hotel establishments – suggests the campaign has hurt his business. His companies have experienced some […]
“AdExchanger Politics” is a weekly column tracking developments in the 2016 political campaign cycle. Today’s column is written by JC Medici, national director of politics and advocacy at Rocket Fuel. Disagreement inside political party lines is nothing new. Someone is always on the outside, such as Reagan and Ford’s neck-to-neck battle for the Republican nomination […]
While Ted Cruz’s suspended campaign committee endures to manage assets like fundraiser lists and voter profiles, it has no intention of contributing anything but the bare minimum of its valuable data to the RNC and its voter-file vendor, the Data Trust, said sources with knowledge of the Cruz committee’s plans. The Cruz committee is not […]
“AdExchanger Politics” is a weekly column tracking developments in the 2016 political campaign cycle. Today’s column is written by Richard Hall, vice president of TV strategy at Videology. In the classic time-travel film “Back to the Future Part II,” Biff, the delightfully evil antagonist, uses a sports almanac from the future to place surefire bets […]
Political ad dollars, even more so than brand budgets, have conglomerated around a handful of major players. Of the more than $1 billion analysts predict candidates and super PACs will spend online this election, “half will go to Facebook and Google, Pandora – those are the big ones – and Twitter,” said Jordan Lieberman, politics […]
“AdExchanger Politics” is a weekly column tracking developments in the 2016 political campaign cycle. Today’s column is written by Joseph Lavan, vice president of data and insights at Netmining. Walking into a store knowing what you want to buy and then having a sales rep pitch you on the exact product you’ve already decided on […]
“AdExchanger Politics” is a weekly column tracking developments in the 2016 political campaign cycle. Today’s column is written by Will Margiloff, CEO at IgnitionOne. Whether you’re “with her” or want to “make America great again,” it’s impossible to ignore the fact that the 2016 presidential race is a game-changer. Not only in the nature of […]
As the primary period comes to a close, Republican uncertainty – not just for presidential candidates, but in races up and down the ballot – remains a prevailing force in political advertising. “What’s still not clear, and it has actually become a little more confusing, is the question of how much Trump will spend,” said […]
“AdExchanger Politics” is a weekly column tracking developments in the 2016 political campaign cycle. Today’s column is written by Jordan Lieberman, politics and public affairs lead at Audience Partners. Political and public affairs digital buying is exciting, dynamic and terrifying. There is real innovation and gifted salespeople, and the two do not necessarily overlap. There […]
The last two presidential elections were decided in part by the Democrats’ superior tech and data infrastructure. While the Republicans have since invested in bolstering their own expertise, the Dems believe they still have the upper hand. “Republicans who see our tools still say our solutions are much better than what they have on their […]
“AdExchanger Politics” is a weekly column tracking developments in the 2016 political campaign cycle. Today’s column is written by Kevin Tan, CEO at Eyeota. With elections season heating up in the US and Australia, political candidates have their eye on the prize. But opinion polls are confusing and occasionally inaccurate – something that we can […]
Data figured centrally in Barack Obama’s 2008 and 2012 campaign operations. Hillary Clinton is running a similar playbook. Mitt Romney and Ted Cruz both leaned heavily on technology-enabled voter analysis. But Donald Trump isn’t interested in the data-gathering infrastructure many see as a necessary piece of modern presidential campaigning. “I’ve always felt it was overrated,” […]
