Advertising

After years of uncertainty, Google says it won't be 'deprecating third-party cookies' in Chrome
Digiday
"In the meantime, ad execs can expect Google to put on a full-court press to sell the Sandbox. It’s no coincidence that the decision to keep third-party cookies in Chrome dropped alongside an announcement about how well their own tests of alternatives performed between January and March."

Campaigns

Brat campaign: Harris team swiftly embraces Gen Z memes about VP
Axios
"With age and fitness for office posing such central questions in the 2024 race so far, the Harris campaign's ability to play into the memes could engage young voters who get their news from social media and shake off the traditional stiffness of campaign communications."

Tech for Trump
City Journal
"The Trump-Vance ticket has shown a far greater openness to new technologies. Trump can tout a track record of cutting regulations. He has promised to “Make America First in AI” by, among other things, creating “industry-led” agencies to oversee AI development. He will speak at a major Bitcoin conference later this month. For his part, Vance hails from the venture capital scene, reported owning six figures’ worth of Bitcoin in his public financial filings, and has taken a strong public stance in favor of open-source AI."

Content

BREAKING: The ways people hear about big news these days; “into a million pieces,” says source
Nieman Lab
"Social media has encouraged people to think that, if the news is really important, it’ll find them. So how did it find people on Sunday?"

Design

The new Kamala Harris presidential campaign branding came together within hours
Fast Company
"The Biden-Harris campaign’s design team created the new 'Harris for President' logo in short order. Rather than reaching back to Harris’ 2020 campaign logo and its unconventional (for politics) purple, red, and yellow color palette, the logo was designed to match the preexisting Biden-Harris campaign identity."

6 logos in 3 hours: Kamala Harris' design team shares how it approached the historic campaign rebrand
Fast Company
"The new website was also a sprint. “The Harris for President creative and web teams sprang into action, rebranded the entire campaign overnight, and launched a new website in just 26 hours,” Conway says of the campaign website, kamalaharris.com. (It had previously forwarded to joebiden.com before becoming its own site.) Refreshing Harris’ social media accounts and campaign website throughout the day she announced her candidacy showed a brand being built in real time."

Disinformation

You’re more likely to believe fake news shared by someone you barely know than by your best friend
Nieman Lab
"In other words, it may be difficult for close ties (e.g., family members and close friends) to dissuade users from ideas and information they receive from relative strangers (weak ties) they meet and start following on social media…"

Fundraising

ActBlue sees big donations for Kamala Harris after Biden drops out
Fast Company
"ActBlue reported that grassroots supporters had raised a total of $46.7 million, 'the biggest fundraising day of the 2024 cycle.'"

Social Media

Social media influencers descend on GOP convention in push for disengaged conservatives
Axios
"The RNC influencer program, overseen by the convention's digital team, has about 75 participants.

Each creator has about 30 minutes a day to go to the floor and make content such as reels or interviews.

Participants otherwise spend most of their time in a suite called the Creator Hub, which has been visited by lawmakers including Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.)."

There’s a lot more to the Kamala Harris memes than you think
TechCrunch
“With each passing election cycle, people spend more time online, which means that political memes become more relevant. But according to Turvy, this cultural instinct to turn political moments into jokes is nothing new.”

Elon Musk's X adds pro-Trump icons for Trump hashtags
Mashable
"On Thursday, July 18, some X users began to notice that custom icons were appearing next to certain pro-Trump hashtags. For example, when an X user posts the hashtag #MAGA, a small photo of Trump raising his fist after the shooting, automatically appears next to the hashtag in the post."

Technology

The Referee Of Political Campaigns – Sean Cooksey (FEC)
Business of Politics Show
"But with respect to AI specifically, I am very much in favor of a wait and see approach specifically with the election that's in just over a hundred days from now."

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