Daisy Girl: Lyndon Johnson’s memorable and controversial political ad
The controversy resulted in the advertisement being pulled – but also in widespread media coverage which spread the advert’s message far and wide. … Read the full post »
Political ads
Read my posts featuring some of the strangest, funniest and more effective political advertisements from all around the world.
An unusually uplifting US political advert
A pleasant surprise at odds with current political times comes in this advert from the race to be the next Governor of Utah. … Read the full post »
Part bizarre, part brilliant: a local political advert
Jimmy Flannigan, candidate for District 6 in Austin, talks about traffic, water, property crime, rising taxes – in one long, flowing take. … Read the full post »
How political ads popular on Twitter can be counter-productive
What works well on Twitter can be counter-productive if used in political adverts. That’s one of the snippets of wisdom in a Politico piece. … Read the full post »
Mad Men & Bad Men: What happened with British politics met advertising by Sam Delaney
Sam Delaney’s book about political advertising in Britain is a fun read, but light on evidence about advertising’s actual impact. … Read the full post »
See what happened when a Disney animated a political advert
This is from the 1952 US Presidential election, animated by Roy Disney, nephew of Walt. Quite fun – and also a healthy reminder about slipping into believing that politics now is awful compared to an imagined previous Golden Age. … Read the full post »
Still the best political advert I’ve seen all century, courtesy of Luis Fisham
Long-time readers will be able to track how the headline I use when blogging about this gem of a political advert is steadily becoming more hyperbolic. The advertisement, however, fully justifies this. … Read the full post »
There’s a brilliant pay-off to this David Brill political ad
Sometimes you really need to watch a political advert all the way to the end, as with this one from Democrat Congressional candidate in Arizona, David Brill. … Read the full post »
When chocolates featured in political ads
One of the Conservative election posters featured in the excellent collection Dole Queues and Demons: British election posters from the Conservative Party Archive by Stuart Ball contains David Lloyd George and chocolate. … Read the full post »
The anatomy of a political campaign ad
An excellent dissection of political campaign ads work, starting with some lessons from Alfred Hitchcock. … Read the full post »