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    AdExchanger Politics: Mail-In Voting Will Decide The 2020 Election

    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 […]

  • AdExchanger Politics: The Fight For The Undecideds Will Decide The 2020 Race

    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 […]

  • AdExchanger Politics: Throwing A Wrench Into The Voter Registration Machinery

    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 […]

  • AdExchanger Politics: On The Defensive, Donald Trump Revs Up His Ad Machine

    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 […]

  • President Trump Signs Executive Order To Remove Legal Shield For Online Platforms

    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 […]

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    AdExchanger Politics: Text Messaging Captures The Spotlight This Year

    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 […]

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    AdExchanger Politics: As America Stays Home, Candidates Turn To Digital Organizing Tech

    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 […]

  • Lessons From The 2008 Financial Crash During A Presidential Campaign

    “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. […]

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    AdExchanger Politics: The Coronavirus Factor

    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 […]

  • The Honest Ads Act Charts A Path For Political Advertising

    “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 […]

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    AdExchanger Politics: Talking Shop With Bernie Sanders’ Analytics Partner; California Beckons

    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. […]

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    AdExchanger Politics: Polling Perils, In It To Win It

    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 […]

  • As Election Nears, Ad Tech Looks Toward New Opportunities – And To Avoid Past Mistakes

    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, […]

  • Democrats, Left Behind Online, Push For More Digital Dollars

    A year ago, the Democratic Party data-driven ecosystem, a network of consultants, liberal digital media agencies and campaign tech vendors, was confident it would hold the White House, flip the Supreme Court and maybe even reclaim a Senate majority. Now, there is a sense of urgency as Democrats up and down ballots seek to reclaim […]

  • Bots And Fraudsters Are Feasting On Political Ad Dollars

    Blood in the water brings sharks, and high CPMs bring bots. And political spenders, who often outbid brands on targeted inventory, are uniquely vulnerable to digital fraud and bots. “All the ingredients that typically happen for fraud are a part of the political marketplace,” said Mark Schlosser, senior sales director at the ad fraud security […]

  • Paid Media Kicks In (A Little) As Trump Shows Signs Of Weakness

    When Reuters reported last month that the Koch brothers’ organization, Freedom Partners, would sit out the remainder of the primary, the reason given was a worry that “spending millions of dollars attacking Trump would be money wasted, since they had not yet seen any attack on Trump stick.” Political insiders now expect a change in […]

  • The Winners Of The 2016 Election? Native And Social Advertising.

    “AdExchanger Politics“ is a new weekly column tracking developments in the 2016 political campaign cycle. Today’s column is written by Eric Berry, CEO at TripleLift. The political season is upon us, for better or worse. Cue the typical debates, false controversies, real controversies and, of course, ads. But the 2016 presidential campaign is unique because […]