Read my posts featuring some of the strangest, funniest and more effective political adverts.
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
An excellent dissection of political campaign ads work, starting with some lessons from Alfred Hitchcock. … Read the full post »
Music played a major role in one of the UK Labour Party’s 1997 general election broadcasts, which is the most powerful of all the ones I’ve seen ‘live’ at the time of broadcast. … Read the full post »
After 23 years of Liberal Party rule, Gough Whitlam’s Labor party in 1972 used the slogan “It’s time“ to sum up its argument that it was time for a change. … Read the full post »
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. … Read the full post »