Social Sentiment Tracked for 2012 Presidential Election
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Social Sentiment Tracked for 2012 Presidential Election

12y Miranda Miller

Social Sentiment Tracked for 2012 Presidential Ele...

Voters can check out election results, polling station locations, and even social sentiment analysis offered by the major U.S. search engines today. P...

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MoveOn's Vote Buddy Uses Facebook to Influence Friends' Voting
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MoveOn's Vote Buddy Uses Facebook to Influence Friends' Voting

12y Mary Lisbeth D'Amico

MoveOn's Vote Buddy Uses Facebook to Influence Fri...

Political advocacy group MoveOn.org sought to rock the liberal vote at the eleventh hour with the launch late last week of Vote Buddy, a Facebook app ...

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QR and NFC Help Rock the Youth Vote
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QR and NFC Help Rock the Youth Vote

12y Susan Kuchinskas

QR and NFC Help Rock the Youth Vote

What better way to get out the youth vote than by encouraging them to register using their mobile phones? For the November 2012 elections, Rock the Vo...

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Today's Big Question: Will Latinos Be the Big Story Tomorrow?
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Today's Big Question: Will Latinos Be the Big Story Tomorrow?

12y Giovanni Rodriguez

Today's Big Question: Will Latinos Be the Big Sto...

Latinos loom large this Election Day, and the stakes are huge. Here's what folks in the media are saying. Read More...

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Obama vs. Romney: Who’s Winning the YouTube Vote?
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Obama vs. Romney: Who’s Winning the YouTube Vote?

12y Greg Jarboe

Obama vs. Romney: Who’s Winning the YouTube Vote?

President Obama is trouncing Romney with 53 percent of total shares – 69 percent of the ads shared on blogs, 86 percent of the ads shared on Twitter, ...

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5 Things We Can Learn From This Year's Political Campaign
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5 Things We Can Learn From This Year's Political Campaign

12y Sundeep Kapur

5 Things We Can Learn From This Year's Political C...

How the 2012 multi-channel presidential campaigns can teach us as marketers. Read More...

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Heat Map Study Shows Politics Influences Ad Focus
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Heat Map Study Shows Politics Influences Ad Focus

12y Susan Kuchinskas

Heat Map Study Shows Politics Influences Ad Focus

Cognitive Match released a study of political ads showing sharp differences in the way younger left- and right-leaning voters looked at the content. R...

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More Democrats Sign Up for Political Texts Than Republicans
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More Democrats Sign Up for Political Texts Than Republicans

12y Kate Kaye

More Democrats Sign Up for Political Texts Than Re...

A mere 5 percent of registered voters with cellphones have actually coughed up their mobile phone numbers according to a new Pew report. Read More...

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Obama Attacks Swiftly on Twitter, Jabs Romney on Swing Sites
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Obama Attacks Swiftly on Twitter, Jabs Romney on Swing Sites

12y Kate Kaye

Obama Attacks Swiftly on Twitter, Jabs Romney on S...

The President's team is running large ads on swing state sites targeting younger voters, while the Romney camp aims for a post-debate spike in donatio...

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Pre-Debate, Planned Parenthood Aims Anti-Romney Ads in Denver
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Pre-Debate, Planned Parenthood Aims Anti-Romney Ads in Denver

12y Kate Kaye

Pre-Debate, Planned Parenthood Aims Anti-Romney Ad...

The pro-choice organization is blanketing The Denver Post's Politics home page today with display ads encouraging voters to "Ask Mitt where he stands ...

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Is Data-Focused Media Buying Here to Stay?
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Is Data-Focused Media Buying Here to Stay?

12y Tim Nichols

Is Data-Focused Media Buying Here to Stay?

An interview with Ryan Jetton, co-founder of Utility Digital, about best business practices, ad targeting, and media buying. Read More...

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Early Brands and Politicos Try Twitter Header
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Early Brands and Politicos Try Twitter Header

12y Kate Kaye

Early Brands and Politicos Try Twitter Header

Brands like Starbucks, Nike, NFL, Ford and political figures including Mitt Romney, Ann Romney, Michelle Obama, and Joe Biden are early adopters of Tw...

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Obama Group Slams Romney in Web Ads
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Obama Group Slams Romney in Web Ads

12y Kate Kaye

Obama Group Slams Romney in Web Ads

ClickZ's 2012 election digital ad spending update shows Romney's joint committee with the GOP is bridging the large digital ad spending gap between Ro...

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Obama and GOP Twitter Buys Inspire Passionate Tweet Trend
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Obama and GOP Twitter Buys Inspire Passionate Tweet Trend

12y Kate Kaye

Obama and GOP Twitter Buys Inspire Passionate Twee...

The nature of political discourse online tends to be passionate, if not extreme and even vitriolic. That's playing out in Promo Trend-inspired tweets ...

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Koch-Linked Group Dropped Over $1M Online in Last 2 Weeks
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Koch-Linked Group Dropped Over $1M Online in Last 2 Weeks

12y Kate Kaye

Koch-Linked Group Dropped Over $1M Online in Last ...

Americans for Prosperity recently bought ads from Pandora, Google and AOL, and purchased today's Twitter Promoted Trend. Read More...

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Obama and RNC Battle for Attention on Charlotte Site
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Obama and RNC Battle for Attention on Charlotte Site

12y Kate Kaye

Obama and RNC Battle for Attention on Charlotte Si...

The Republican National Committee appears to have removed anti-Romney tweets from its site that were featured there yesterday. Read More...

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RNC's Own Site Spotlights Anti-Romney Tweets
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RNC's Own Site Spotlights Anti-Romney Tweets

12y Kate Kaye

RNC's Own Site Spotlights Anti-Romney Tweets

Like the Romney camp last week, the RNC bought today's Promoted Trend on Twitter, as the Obama camp aims for Democratic Convention fundraising via hom...

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Romney Camp and Rove's Crossroads Use Same Digital Ad Firm
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Romney Camp and Rove's Crossroads Use Same Digital Ad Firm

12y Kate Kaye

Romney Camp and Rove's Crossroads Use Same Digital...

Candidate campaigns are required to keep a distance from outside groups backing them but they sometimes work with the same companies, and coordination...

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Akin Isn't Dropping Out Say Web Ads as McCaskill Capitalizes on Twitter
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Akin Isn't Dropping Out Say Web Ads as McCaskill Capitalizes on Twitter

12y Kate Kaye

Akin Isn't Dropping Out Say Web Ads as McCaskill C...

Todd Akin's campaign aims to generate fundraising support following calls for him to drop out of the Missouri Senate race after his comment about rape...

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Obama Outspends Romney on Digital Ads 4:1
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Obama Outspends Romney on Digital Ads 4:1

12y Kate Kaye

Obama Outspends Romney on Digital Ads 4:1

Original ClickZ Politics analysis shows the Obama campaign continues widening its lead in digital ad spending over Romney. Read More...

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Nearly a Third of Likely Voters Ignore Live TV
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Nearly a Third of Likely Voters Ignore Live TV

12y Daniel Mickens

Nearly a Third of Likely Voters Ignore Live TV

Video ad firm Say Media updated its 2011 study with new findings that also showed smartphone usage is up in Florida and Ohio battlegrounds. Read More...

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White House Is First Client for Social-to-Real World Consultancy
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White House Is First Client for Social-to-Real World Consultancy

12y Kate Kaye

White House Is First Client for Social-to-Real Wor...

SocialxDesign is starting off with one of the biggest brand name clients in the world: The White House. Read More...

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Swing State Site Traffic: How Obama and Romney Did in July
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Swing State Site Traffic: How Obama and Romney Did in July

12y Kate Kaye

Swing State Site Traffic: How Obama and Romney Did...

People in six swing states were more likely to visit Romney's site in July; Obama had strength in five. Read More...

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Rove-Linked Group Aimed Mobile Ads at Chicago Lollapalooza-Goers
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Rove-Linked Group Aimed Mobile Ads at Chicago Lollapalooza-Goers

12y Kate Kaye

Rove-Linked Group Aimed Mobile Ads at Chicago Loll...

Crossroads Generation, a group created to capture the 2012 youth vote for Republicans, aimed mobile ads on Obama campaign turf in Grant Park, Chicago ...

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Obama Facebook Ads Push Tax Policy Differences With Romney
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Obama Facebook Ads Push Tax Policy Differences With Romney

12y Kate Kaye

Obama Facebook Ads Push Tax Policy Differences Wit...

An Obama tax calculator calls those earning $500,000 an "average" family. The ads carry on a share-centric online ad strategy from Obama. Read More...

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Super PAC Brigade Spent Big on Digital Ads for Cruz in Texas
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Super PAC Brigade Spent Big on Digital Ads for Cruz in Texas

12y Kate Kaye

Super PAC Brigade Spent Big on Digital Ads for Cru...

Club for Growth, FreedomWorks, and others spent $700,000 on digital ads supporting Senate hopeful Ted Cruz. Read More...

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Republicans Spend $50K on YouTube Ads Targeting Congressional Districts
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Republicans Spend $50K on YouTube Ads Targeting Congressional Districts

12y Kate Kaye

Republicans Spend $50K on YouTube Ads Targeting Co...

Google just launched truer congressional district targeting, which could help it keep an edge over Facebook and other ad networks in 2012 for U.S. Hou...

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