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AOL Patch Wobbles | Brands' Social Currency | Campaign Seeks Torturers | Regulators Target Facebook | Groupon Payout Lawsuit

Agency News: JWT Appoints a Pair of Chief Creative Officers in New York Business Strategies: For AOL, a Costly Gamble On Local News Draws Trouble Taco Bell, BK and Others   [...]

Industry Buzz & Snippets: 01/11/10

Campaigns: Aflac is leaving its agency and taking the duck. NJ governor's race yielded small online spends. Analytics: 5 tips for investing in analytics. E-Mail Marketing:  [...]

Industry Buzz & Snippets: 10/21/09

Web 2.0 News and Trends: Rumor has it that Google will launch a music initiative called One Box to offer song previews, artist bios, graphics, and video - but no downloads or subscriptions. One Box won't be limited to music, according to CNET's Stephen Shankland. There are several different kin  [...]

Obama Campaign Makes Cannes Coup

Obama's political -- and media-fluent -- campaign for President last year won the two major awards at the Cannes Lions International Advertising Festival this year. Submitted by Obama for America, the effort swept two Grands Prix in both the Titanium and Integrated Lions categories. The Obama campaign incorporated tactical use of traditional TV advertising, grassroots campaigning, the ability to mobilize via an iPhone app,   [...]

Obama Inauguration Drives Droves to Web

Viewership at the top three US cable network news websites surged fourteen-fold from 12:00-1:00 p.m. EST on Inauguration Day, accounting for 30% of online event viewing, as millions of viewers tuned in to watch Barack Obama take the presidential oath and deliver his address, according to data from comScore Video Metrix (  [...]

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McCain Pushes New Org with Social Media Efforts

Ex presidential candidate John McCain announced the launch of a grassroots organization called "Country First," which is supported by many of the social media tools that contributed to President Elect Obama's historic win. According to an email to McCain supporters -- whose contact data was gleaned during his run for President --, the goals of Country First a  [...]

Change.gov Opens to Questions, Comments, 'American Stories'

Change.gov, the site where President Elect Obama's administration communicates with Americans, now permits users to submit questions and vote on those they most want answered. The "Open for Questions" feature launched Wednesday, at which time over 1000 questions were logged  [...]

HuffPo Infused with $25M, Site Valued at $100M

Political news site The Huffington Post received $25 million in a financing round led by VC firm Oak Investment Partners. HuffPo plans to invest in infrastructure, increase in-house advertising capabilities and expand content offerings. The site primarily curates political content from other web destinations, but plans to launch a new investigative journalism initiative and unveil local versions of HuffPo in select metropolises. More video will   [...]

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Brand-Association Study: Obama Linked to BMW, McCain to Ford

Barack Obama is more associated with brands BMW, Target, Google and Samuel Adams, while John McCain brings to mind Ford, Wal-Mart , AOL and Budweiser, according to the 2008 Presidential ImagePower Survey from branding firm Landor Associates and research firm Penn, Schoen & Berland,   [...]

Army Puts Overseas Soldiers Behind Recruitment Webcasts

Beginning today -- Veterans Day -- the US Army will integrate a series of webcasts, labeled "Straight from Iraq," into its website and overall media campaign. "Now you can find out what it's really like to be deployed in the Middle East from the men and women stationed there," claims the subsite on GoArmy.com. The effort -- where users can field questions to Iraq-based soldiers -- is targeted to Americans between the a  [...]

Obama 'Roadblock' Pulls 21.7 Overall Household Rating

Barack Obama’s Wednesday night roadblock on most major TV networks pulled a combined overall household rating, in the top 56 local markets, of 21.7, reports MediaBuyerPlanner. The half-hour simulcast was the first to be aired by a presidential candidate since Ross Perot ran   [...]

Obama Campaign Launches iPhone App

Sen. Barack Obama's presidential campaign has launched an iPhone application that enables supporters to communicate with each other and consume breaking news, reports The New York Times. Available for free on the App Store, it is compatible with the iPhone and the iPod touch. The unit organizes contacts by "key battleground states," keeps you abreast of campaign news via text and email, and helps target local e  [...]

YHOO/GOOG Liaison Gets Blessing from CA Congress Members

Few groups, particularly advertisers, appear to be rooting for Google and Yahoo's sponsored search deal. But in a letter sent to US Attorney General Michael Mukasey, 11 Democratic Congress members from California have demanded that the Department of Justice permit the deal to go through. The letter stated that a lawsuit to obstruct the liaison may "detrimentally affect the online advertising ma  [...]

Economist Gives World a Vote in US Presidential Election

London-based business rag The Economist has created a global version of the US Electoral College, based on the population of each country. The magazine hopes to stimulate online brand engagement through the effort, which leverages overseas interest in the US election -- a "closely watched contest" worldwide, said VP Ron Diorio of product and community development in New York. "We thought it would be fun and a bit of an educa  [...]

Obama Cuts Back on August Web Spend; McCain Raises Stakes

Sen. Barack Obama drew slightly more buzz than Sen. John McCain over the course of the Democratic and Republican National Conventions, followed by Gov. Sarah Palin and Sen. Hillary Clinton, according to recent stats from Nielsen (pdf). Web traffic to BarackObama.com also   [...]

Palin Acceptance Speech Draws 37M Viewers, Utterly Outshines Biden

Governor Sarah Palin's debut as Vice Presidential incumbent on the Republican ticket drew 37 million viewers, dramatically outstripping the 24 million that watched Senator Joe Biden, the VP incumbent on the Democratic side. Her acceptance speech at the Republican National Convention (RNC) also eclipsed the audience for Senator Hillary Clinton's speech at the Democratic National Convention (DNC), in which Clinton put full support behind Senator Barack Obama's bid for Presidency, Nielsen Media   [...]

Obama's Acceptance Speech Draws 38.4M American Viewers

Barack Obama's acceptance speech at the Democratic National Convention attracted 38.4 million American viewers -- a larger audience than those that watched the opening ceremony for the Beijing Olympics (34.2 million viewers), reports the Guardian. (The speech was broadcast on ma  [...]

AT&T to Rock Youth Vote from Handsets

In partnership with Rock the Vote and FunMobility, AT&T is releasing downloadable mobile content to encourage young people to vote this November. The campaign includes pop music (like America the Beautiful by Christina Aguilera), artistic contributions, and Rock the Vote wallpaper for handsets, created by FunMobility. Material can be downloaded at RocktheVote.FunMo.com, or at the AT&T MEdia Mall on AT&T mobile phones. Content will be continuousl  [...]

Take that, Obama: McCain One-Ups Olympic Buy

Weeks after Obama committed $5 million in ad spend to the Olympics, Senator John McCain's Presidential campaign is making a last-minute Olympic ad buy for $6 million -- trumping his Democratic rival by a round million. "Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery," drawled CEO Evan Tracey of TNSMI's Campaign Media Analysis Group. "For the same reason the idea was good for Barack, it is good for Mc  [...]

Obama Makes Gold-Medal Buy in Beijing Olympics

Senator Barack Obama's Presidential campaign made a $5 million ad buy in the Beijing Olympics. The package, which supposedly represents the most significant network-TV buy of any Presidential candidate in 16 years, includes network TV and cable advertising, writes Advertising Age. NBC Universal, which expects to rake in $1 billion in ad rev  [...]