Campaigns and causes will be competing on a digital battlefield as never before in the 2016 elections. A recent MediaPost.com article by Mike Werch, marketing manager of SocialCode, offered eight key digital strategies to boost message impact, expand voter base and capture donations. Werch advises: 1) target unaffiliated voters by serving digital ads to lookalikes, people with the same interests and behaviors as those in the voter, donor or e-mail subscriber files; 2) recapture donors with digital remarketing (use of Website Custom Audiences) to target people who visit a donation page but fail to donate; 3) apply digital insights across channels, using the creative test results of digital video to hone TV or print ads, for example; 4) improve primary audience response with digital geo-targeting, testing geo-targeted digital video to perfect expensive local TV ads, for example; 5) segment audiences for more digital leverage, using Facebook's rich user data, for example, to deploy ads relevant to targets' demographics, behaviors and interests; 6) do a local-interest digital campaign in an area before hitting the pavement, and follow up with conversion-focused ads to build mailing lists; 7) do digital "get out the vote" campaigning, messaging politically inactive Facebook users who also match political affinity targeting as an example; 8) test 2016's new and improved ad options for political campaigning, such as Facebook's lead ads for mobile sign-ups and conversions with pre-filled forms. For more detail, read http://www.mediapost.com/publications/article/264971/how-2016-presidential-candidates-can-win-the-digit.html
Whether you promote a cause or a candidate, Beyond Voter Lists President David Kanter's targeting tips are designed to help you win generous donors, committed special-interest group members, influential private-sector leaders, and activists across the political spectrum. We welcome sharing of your comments and success stories. Please read our Comment Policy.
Tuesday, December 29, 2015
Campaigns Must Arm to Win the 2016 Digital Race
Labels:
campaign strategy,
creative testing,
digital advertising,
digital marketing,
donations,
Facebook,
geotargeting,
mobile,
online fundraising,
online video,
remarketing,
social ad targeting,
TV
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