"As a first step toward restoring its 130-year reputation, the Silicon Valley Organization voted to immediately dissolve the SVO PAC, subject to state and local campaign finance laws and reporting requirements," SVO's damage-control spokesflak Terry Downing announced less than a day before the general election.
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The decision culminates a week of fallout from a PAC-paid racist hit piece designed to undermine Jake Tonkel's progressive challenge to SVO-favored incumbent Dev Davis in San Jose's District 6 council race.
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Amazon drops French Black Friday ad campaign as lockdown starts | Reuters
PARIS (Reuters) - Amazon is withdrawing advertising for pre-Black Friday discounts in France, after the government said the campaign was unfair to small shops at time when a coronavirus lockdown has forced them to close.
France entered its second national lockdown on Friday to try to contain a surge in infections. The curbs imposed under it include the closure of non-essential stores.
A spokeswoman for Amazon AMZN.O said the group had agreed to halt its radio advertising campaign around pre-Black Friday sales.
Candidates and groups drop over $12 million on Facebook ad spending
RICHMOND, Va. (CAPITAL NEWS SERVICE) — In an election forecasted to have record voter turnout, political campaigns have deployed a multiplatform media blitz.
Facebook is for more than likes these days, with the platform getting its share of Virginia political and issue spending to the tune of over $12.7 million in a recent three-month period, according to the social media platform.
Tobe Berkovitz, an advertising professor at Boston University who has worked as a political media consultant on election campaigns, said campaigns advertise on social media for the same reasons that consumer advertising is used.
What Trump's Election Day YouTube strategy tells us about his campaign - Vox
Since it was published a few days before Halloween, the Joe Biden zombie video has been viewed more than 7 million times. The homepage takeover ad — which sometimes features a video of Ultimate Fighting Championship fighter Jorge Masvidal expressing support for Trump — was seen by millions in the days leading up to the election. The Masvidal ad was targeted to voters in Florida .
The prime advertising slot is one that the Trump campaign secured months ago, before the Democratic Party had even settled on a nominee. It's just one part of an aggressive YouTube strategy from the Trump campaign, one that has used tactics like colorful ombre thumbnails and bombastic headlines. Many of the videos seem to be targeted toward the younger audience on the platform, and the strategy has helped Trump land some of the most-viewed political videos on YouTube.
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Health Agency Halts Coronavirus Ad Campaign, Leaving Santa Claus in the Cold - WSJ
A federal health agency halted a public-service coronavirus advertising campaign funded by $250 million in taxpayer money after it offered a special vaccine deal to an unusual set of essential workers: Santa Claus performers.
As part of the plan, a top Trump administration official wanted the Santa performers to promote the benefits of a Covid-19 vaccination and, in exchange, offered them early vaccine access ahead of the general public, according to audio recordings. Those who perform as Mrs. Claus and elves also would have been included.
Star Trek Releases Jonathan Archer Presidential Campaign Ad
Today is election day in the United States, and Star Trek has gotten into the spirit of things by releasing a fictional campaign ad. This ad isn't a campaign ad for the United States presidential race, but for "Jonathan Archer for President of the United Federation of Planets 2814." Archer is one of Starfleet's most decorated captains ever .
The ad heralds Archer's achievements as captain of Starfleet's first ship capable of achieving warp five. It also parrots the claim by at least one Federation historian that Archer was the greatest explorer of the 22nd century. Finally, it stitches together some of Archer's great speeches from Enterprise to form a closing argument for his campaign. In the video, he says:
Biden Ads Flood the NFL Zone as Campaign Outspends Trump Across Sports
Regardless of your political leanings and whether you're a Buckeyes loyalist or a Wolverines diehard, it is perhaps uncontroversial to suggest that however things shake out with the presidential election, the end of this particularly crotchety campaign cycle will be a boon to sports fans of all stripes. Because if nothing else, the conclusion of Trump vs. Biden means there will be no more get-out-the-vote ads cluttering up our football.
While one of the side effects of quarantine has been a dilation and distortion of time, your eyes (and ears) haven't been playing tricks on you. If the sheer volume of political ads we've been deluged with over the last six months seems somewhat overwhelming, it's because the candidates and their allies spent a record amount of cash to ensure that their messages were inescapable.
Fauci Says Trump Campaign Ad Uses His Words 'Completely Out of Context' - The New York Times
WASHINGTON — Dr. Anthony S. Fauci , whose blunt public health advice has frequently been at odds with President Trump, said on Tuesday that a Trump campaign ad quoted him "completely out of context" by incorrectly implying that he was praising the administration's coronavirus response.
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He also warned that the campaign "may turn off a lot of people" by airing an ad to which he is so vocally opposed.
"President Trump tackled the virus head on, as leaders should," the ad declares, before switching to a shot of Dr. Fauci saying, "I can't imagine that anybody could be doing more."
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