Welcome to the non-partisan Digital Politics Podcast with Karen Jagoda. Since 2007, this show has highlighted impact of new technologies on the campaign landscape, how expectations of voters are changing, role of online fundraising, digital and traditional means of persuasion and getting out the vote. In this time of the COVID-19 Pandemic, changes in the behavior of voters, restrictions on candidates and the new normal for retail politics are all under the microscope.
Popular topics on the show include best practices for political and advocacy campaigns, ground game strategies, cross-media advertising, social media trends and impact of mobile on engaging supporters.
This weekly podcast includes interviews with political consultants, media strategists, journalists, advocates, candidates, elected officials, campaign managers, and solution providers.
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Jan 11, 2021
Deepak Puri, Co-founder and CEO, The Democracy Labs reflects on changes in activism and grassroots organizing due to restrictions from COVID-19 and the availability of free and low cost digital tools. Deepak talks about TextPerCent.org an app being deployed for voter engagement through peer-to-peer texting and...
Dec 17, 2020
Frank Girolami, Vice President of Political Data, Aristotle shares insights about fundraising strategies that proved successful in 2020 races and confirms that more campaigns took a path to nationalize their appeals for funds. He reminds us that mail-in voting has proven successful in Oregon and Washington state for...
Dec 10, 2020
Cyrus Krohn, internet thought-leader, political activist and author of the recently published Bombarded: How to Fight Back Against the Online Assault on Democracy is not surprised that the bombardment has continued long past election day given the fuel from Trump to continue the fight and further divide the country. ...
Dec 3, 2020
Sean Duggan, VP Advertising, Pandora is enthusiastic about the growing value of audio political ads particularly to reach multi-cultural audiences. With the growing choices for ad-free streaming content, the competition for attention is shifting to ad-based media that is accessible on a variety of devices. Digital...
Nov 19, 2020
Ben Katz, Chief Architect, ISPolitical likes recounts and the attention being paid to election fraud to insure that voter counts are accurate. While people can make small mistakes, machines can turn seemingly small problems into much larger issues. Working with over 800 campaigns in 2020 and with many years in the...