Archive for political ads
Ban on political TV adverts survives in knife edge 9-8 court vote
An Electoral Reform Society press release reports: The Electoral Reform Society has welcomed news that the ban on paid political broadcast advertising is to remain in place following a knife edge 9-8 vote at the European Court of Human Rights. The Society had warned that lifting the ban would escalate the current ‘arms race’ on [...]
Leaked slide deck reveals how one US company targets ads for its political customers
Propublica reports: Across the country, companies are using cookies to tailor the political ads you see online. One of the firms is CampaignGrid, which boasted in a recent slideshow, “Internet Users are No Longer Anonymous.” The slideshow includes an image of the famous New Yorker cartoon from 1993: “On the Internet, nobody knows you’re a [...]
Unison says: don’t vote Labour
Unison’s advertising campaign for the May elections is a bit odd. Odd because, for example, if you click on their Facebook ads you get taken to the front page of the union’s website rather than to a story about the ads. Odd too because the ads rather coyly say “Vote for the party that cares” [...]
Nasty negative ad as political race turns sour
First there was the positive ad: Now there’s this: Give the target of that nasty ad a hand: sign up on Facebook. You can also watch the rebuttal: Hat-tip: Thanks to Andreas Kierig for alerting me to the first of these adverts I saw. * Mark Pack is Co-Editor of Liberal Democrat Voice and writes [...]
This 2008 political advert is still hard to beat
Enjoy (but please, don’t copy):
PS No, she didn’t win.
PPS For some other horrors, see the strange political adverts here.
Daisy Girl: the advert that changed political advertising
When I was doing my round-up last year of five of the best political adverts from around the world, I included Lyndon Johnson’s Daisy Girl advert from 1964. Despite only being aired once, it has had a huge impact – both because of its power at the time and because of the way others since [...]
A very clever Get Out The Vote film
From Tunisia, via Benedict Pringle, who explains: The equivalent of the electoral commission decided to restore a giant poster of the former dictator that used to be a landmark of a suburban area of Tunis. Passers-by are astounded and seemingly nervous when they see it in the morning, however, soon their stupefaction shifts to anger [...]
Some of the strangest political adverts you’ve ever seen
Ah, America: land of the free and home to some of the most eccentric political advertisements. “Eccentric” does not even begin to do justice to the recent Herman Cain for President advert that has been making waves in the last few days. Watch to the end – it’s worth it: It has however faced some [...]
This is not a negative advert
The political advertising put out by people who disdain negative ads is often too self-consciously worthy to be effective. John Hickenlooper’s advert as part of his successful run for Governor of Colorado however was rather different – and was rated as being very effective by those watching the race: It is, of course, not a [...]
Five of the best political adverts: here’s the full list
During this week, we’ve run a series of posts on five of the best political adverts. If you’ve missed any part of the list, here it is in full along with links to the ads and posts: Labour isn’t working: the 1979 classic which redefined political advertising in the UK Daisy Girl: probably the most [...]
