INDUSTRY INTELLIGENCE

Analysis on public sentiment, regulatory trends, persuasion, and campaigns.

Six Social Media Skills every politician needs

I have been called a political nerd on more than one occasion   I will admit, I love the 'science' of politics.   My latest interests revolve around network analysis and the use of twitter for political communication. In an effort to study how Florida's elected...

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Ozean Media named finalist for 2013 Reed Awards – Radio

Ozean Consulting was notified today the Jeff Siegmeister for Florida State Attorney - Circuit 3  radio campaign is a finalist  for the 2013 Reed Award. "Ozean is excited to be recognized for our work on the Jeff Siegmeister Campaign.  It was exciting enough to play a...

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Television & Web Video – planning & buying together

Digiday has released the results of its “State of the Industry Survey,” sponsored by adap.tv, which revealed that brands and agencies are planning their online video/ TV ad buys together (for example, in a unified campaign).   Specifically, 48 percent of...

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How to set a campaign Budget

How do I set a campaign budget? We get asked all the time How do I set a campaign budget? In the spirit of sharing, we thought we would share our political campaign budget worksheet. It is in excel format. Love to know if you feel we left anything out of the...

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Video on Web Pre-Roll – New Poll states 15 sec max time

A new, national poll of 1,179 registered U.S. voters, tells us that web video creators have a new time frame they must take into consideration.   The winner for pre-roll video ads?   :15 seconds   Poll Findings Of those polled, 54% felt that 15 seconds...

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How to start & plan a political campaign! Step 1 of 3

This will be a series of blog posts that will explore simple How to steps for political campaigns. It will not be overly comprehensive or detailed, but it will take discuss the major steps that a potential candidate will need to go through. How to plan a political...

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Do Campaign Signs work?

As many candidates on our roster can attest, I have a serious aversion to campaign signs.   In fact, I dislike them. I feel like they simply do no work, if you define work as "increasing vote totals" or "persuading undecided voters".   If they did work, Ron Paul would...

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