Advertising
Report: Republicans Are Ditching Meta and Alphabet for Programmatic Ads in 2024 Campaigns
Campaigns & Elections
"At least that’s according to a new report by the Wesleyan Media Project, which found that by the end of August three quarters of the $619 million in trackable political ads (those exceeding a spend of $5,000) placed on platforms like YouTube and Facebook favored Democrats."
Google to block election ads after polls close on Election Day
Politico
"While the policy is in place, advertisers will be prevented from running ads in the U.S. referencing candidates, ballot measures, election processes and outcomes."
Campaigns
Door Knocking Is Tough These Days. Harris’s Team Is Betting on Apps.
New York Times
"Campaign officials say they have reached 38,000 voters in Milwaukee County this way, and the Reach app is now accessible across every battleground state."
Why the Harris campaign has spent $11 million on a Facebook page with 1,000 followers
CNN
"Unlike the Harris campaign’s main Facebook and Instagram accounts, the ads run by The Daily Scroll and Headlines 2024 aren’t soliciting donations, and most of them aren’t directing users to the campaign’s website. Instead, the Harris team is using the ads to promote select news stories from major media outlets that reflect well on the Democratic presidential nominee and poorly on Trump."
The WhatsApp Campaign
Intelligencer
"Instead, they’ve fed the channel a stream of graphics, videos, and articles designed to help start conversations among Latino families or friend groups, figuring that followers are likely already supporters, but that they will be willing to share the content with their networks — in some cases, very large ones."
Trump Wants Young Voters, but He’s Nowhere to Be Seen on Snapchat
New York Times
"Mr. Trump has not bought a single advertisement on Snapchat, effectively ceding the popular digital messaging platform to Vice President Kamala Harris, whose campaign has spent more than $5.3 million on ads there, according to the company’s disclosures."
Security
75% of US Senate Campaign Websites Fail to Implement DMARC
Infosecurity Magazine
"DMARC is a key tool in preventing phishing and spoofing attacks by ensuring emails sent from a domain are authenticated. Without these safeguards, political campaigns risk cyber breaches that could compromise sensitive voter information, donor data and strategic plans."
Social Media
The Election Has Taken Over TikTok. Here’s What It Looks Like.
New York Times
"Those posts attract hundreds of millions of views — on par with the interest in hit shows like “Love Island” or the pop star Chappell Roan, according to Zelf, a social video analytics company — even though the videos represent just a slice of the content about the election on the app."
Don’t say ‘vote’: How Instagram hides your political posts
Washington Post
"I found that whenever she mentioned anything related to politics over the last six months, the size of her audience declined about 40 percent compared with her nonpolitical posts."
Technology
Two Virginia congressional candidates debated an AI chatbot. It was shockingly rational
Fast Company
"The chatbot was a stand-in for the man currently holding the seat for Virginia’s 8th congressional district, Representative Don Beyer, who declined an invitation to debate. 'DonBot,' as it’s called, was created (without Beyer’s permission) by a long-shot independent challenger for the seat, Bentley Hensel, a software engineer by trade."
- AI chatbot stands in for Congressman in 2024 election debate (YouTube)
Springfield woman uses tracker to find stolen election signs
Ozarks First
"Nixa Police were called, and McCaskill was able to get her sign back because her address was written on the sign but the rest are being held by the Springfield Police Department."
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