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Meet Tech for Campaigns, a nonprofit organization that’s intent on dragging Democratic candidates into the digital marketing age.

While there are plenty of reasons for political ad buyers to be cautious about CTV, streaming media has one major selling point: programmatic targeting.

Using Samba TV’s ACR data, StackAdapt is launching two features to help clients attribute and forecast incremental reach directly to streaming, compared to linear alone.

Comscore’s programmatic ad targeting division, Proximic, unveiled new audience segments for political advertisers to help them reach people based on what they watch and the political campaigns they’ve already seen.

Say hello to the US government’s latest attempt to force antitrust regulations on the digital advertising industry. It might sound familiar.

The 2022 midterm elections are expected to see a record amount of political ad spend going to streaming, even compared to the 2020 presidential cycle. Almost all marketers love CTV for the granular audience buying it supports, but CTV wouldn’t have the political clout it has today if not for the media’s roots in legacy television.

The conventional wisdom in Washington DC is that half or more of political ad budgets during an election year are spent in the final 45 days before the election. We’ve rounded that final bend and are now in the home stretch to the midterms, and programmatic companies are like race horses chomping at their bits. 

Lawmakers and enforcement authorities on both sides of the aisle and across the globe agree it’s time to rewrite the rules that regulate competition for a new internet age. Just last week, the EU passed sweeping antitrust legislation in the form of the Digital Markets Act, and the DOJ is backing a bipartisan antitrust bill currently wending its way through congress.

If there’s one thing lawmakers from both sides of the aisle seem able to agree on, it’s the need to rein in Big Tech. Bipartisan support for taking Big Tech down a peg was evident during Jonathan Kanter’s nomination hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Wednesday. (The same bipartisan vibe was also on display […]

Antitrust expert and legal scholar Lina Khan embodied the phrase “speak softly and carry a big stick” as she testified at her confirmation hearing on Wednesday for a spot on the Federal Trade Commission (FTC). Although some senators questioned her lack of experience, the 32-year-old Khan is a celebrity in legal circles. She rose to […]

While there isn’t 100% bipartisan support for strengthening US antitrust laws to deal with big tech, Republicans and Democrats agree on the need for more robust enforcement of existing antitrust laws. “We need personnel at these agencies who are willing to bring the difficult cases,” said Rep. Ken Buck (R-CO), speaking at a House judiciary […]

Soon-to-be-president Joe Biden has a full plate, from ramping up COVID-19 vaccine distribution and dealing with the economy to addressing the stark polarization of the Trump years. So, don’t expect much movement on privacy and consumer protection during the first 100 days. But both are top priorities for the incoming administration. And there’s appetite for […]

After Donald Trump’s then-digital honcho Brad Parscale described the outgoing president’s operation as a Death Star, the Biden campaign’s digital director, Rob Flaherty, posted a gif showing the moon’s space station’s ultimate fate. On Monday, Biden’s ad agency, Bully Pulpit Interactive, hosted a seminar detailing the president-elect’s digital strategy to educate voters, expand its organic […]

So, there’s an election or something happening in the United States right now? And, apparently, it’s also a workday. Sure. But there has to be a better strategy for getting through the day than repeatedly stress-refreshing the AP’s live election tallies. Here’s how the ad tech community is staying chill, if such a thing is […]

As Americans head to the polls, advertisers and publishers need to remain agile with their paid media strategies. There’s a lot we can’t know about what comes next. “As we’ve seen throughout several points this year, it’s all about staying flexible, making sure messaging is relevant and appropriate – but not going dark,” said Ken Blom, […]

Facebook will formally prohibit political advertising when the polls close on election night, Nov. 3, with no word on when it will resume accepting political ads. The ban will last for at least a week and could continue longer depending on the situation. President Trump has refused to commit to a peaceful transfer of power […]

An investigative report from the UK’s Channel Four News team on Monday accused the 2016 Trump election campaign of actively trying to suppress the Black vote. The expose claims that Trump’s digital team targeted negative ads about Hillary Clinton at 3.5 million Black American voters in battleground states with the hope that they wouldn’t show […]

Political advertisers have shied away from programmatic because they require stringent fact-checking and creative approvals. But as streaming soars and people cut the cord, political advertisers want to take advantage of targeting as they shift budget to OTT – especially as the 2020 election approaches. Xandr has launched a curated workflow that allows political and […]

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. The outsize role that mail-in voting will play in this year’s presidential election has placed it in the eye of a storm […]

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. It’s hard to imagine that there are American voters still split between President Donald Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden, considering […]

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. 2020 was shaping up to be a huge year for US voter registration. The pace of new voters registered in January and […]

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. Donald Trump’s reelection campaign is shifting into high gear now that Joe Biden is the presumptive Democratic nominee. That means a huge […]

Miffed by Twitter adding fact-checking labels to some of his tweets this week, President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Thursday that, if enacted, would challenge social media companies or other aggregation platforms that moderate or remove political content. The reported draft of the executive order targets Section 230 of the 1996 Communications Decency […]

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. In the past couple of months, political media operatives have debated whether the coronavirus pandemic is a relative advantage for President Donald […]

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.   While everyone in politics is figuring out on the fly how COVID-19 will affect US elections this year, it seems already […]

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. Text messaging isn’t new or trendy, but it’s an increasingly popular medium for political advertisers. That was true before the coronavirus swept the […]

Google will require advertisers to submit personal identification or business documents that prove who they are and what country they operate in, the company announced on Thursday. The process will start in the United States and then expand globally, but it will take a few years before the new business verification program is complete, according […]

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. Political advertisers are spending more on digital media, but they have yet to embrace the largest emerging and tier-two online ad platforms, […]

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. Political candidates are feverishly (sorry) trying to figure out how to win elections this year when all they’ve ever known about campaigning […]

“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. On Sept. 29, 2008, the Dow Jones dropped 777 points and the subprime mortgage crisis caught up with us. The Lehman Brothers crash was two weeks old. […]