$1 Billion Spent On Political Ads This Year Alone
This was the year to invest in a TiVo -- if you didn't have a fast-forward button on your TV, chances are you wished you did during the health care de...
This was the year to invest in a TiVo -- if you didn't have a fast-forward button on your TV, chances are you wished you did during the health care de...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 10.29.2009 | Media
Via Andrew Sullivan come a pair of political ads up in Maine, working both sides of the gay marriage issue as the state prepares to vote on "Question ...
AP | Posted 10.27.2009 | Politics
WASHINGTON — Looking to build pressure on moderate Democrats, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce says it will begin airing new TV ads in seven states ...
The Huffington Post | Elyse Siegel | Posted 10.18.2009 | Politics
Controversy surrounding interrogation techniques used by the CIA on terror suspects under the Bush administration has been astir since President Obama...
HuffingtonPost.com | Arthur Delaney | Posted 04.11.2009 | Politics
A new ad by the folks at MoveOn.org targets the health insurance industry. Timed to coincide with the annual conference of America's Health Insurance ...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 03.02.2009 | Media
The pro-labor organization American Rights at Work announced today that they will be launching an advertising campaign to promote the Employee Free Ch...
New York Times | Katharine Seelye | Posted 01.02.2009 | Media
Total spending on political advertising this year by candidates and interest groups reached at least $2.6 billion, the highest amount ever in a presid...
Yoani Sanchez | Posted 12.27.2008 | Politics
Last week we were talking about ants, people and the small traditions that sustain us day to day. Well, a few meters from my house I found this bil...
Aemilia Scott | Posted 12.14.2008 | Politics
To keep us from making some unhealthy choices in the future, presidential campaigns need to be read with the eye of the consumer.
Mike Papantonio | Posted 12.14.2008 | Media
I was advised to take a break from political clutter and that peculiar kind of tunnel vision that develops when we focus too closely on any tiny part of the huge world around us.
HuffingtonPost.com | Nico Pitney and Sam Stein | Posted 12.04.2008 | Politics
It is tradition in every campaign for each side to denounce the other as having run the sleaziest race in modern political history. And certainly it s...
James P. Hoffa | Posted 11.30.2008 | Politics
Rank-and-file teamsters get it. They aren't willing to be swayed by false, irrelevant arguments. They want change. They want ideas. And the fact is -- McCain doesn't have any.
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 11.30.2008 | Politics
Next to the candidate, the candidate's families and their surrogates, these individuals may have the most influential voices in this presidential camp...
Cenk Uygur | Posted 11.23.2008 | Politics
These are two ads we put together at The Young Turks that we think Obama should run against McCain and Palin. So, we will be running them free of charge.
Mort Gerberg | Posted 11.22.2008 | Politics
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 11.17.2008 | Politics
Tom Udall, the Democratic running for the open U.S Senate seat in New Mexico, released an ad on Thursday that may be remembered as the most poignant a...
Michael Hughes | Posted 10.30.2008 | Home
In their new ads, Obama portrays McCain as clueless on the troubled economy, while McCain attempts to scare voters and convince them Obama cannot be trusted on national security.
Taylor Marsh | Posted 10.29.2008 | Politics
When you think of a President Sarah Palin, the importance of McCain's health tilts off the chart. If McCain was a happier warrior, maybe this wouldn't even be an issue. But he's not, so it is.
Stephen Ducat | Posted 10.29.2008 | Politics
The aim of advertisers is not just to have us dream but to put us in a dream of their own design. In so doing, they tell us who we are -- which is to say, who they need us to be.
Josh Dorner | Posted 10.19.2008 | Politics
After releasing an ad earlier this week that contained debunked lies about offshore drilling and gas prices, John McCain unveiled a new ad today, "Dom...
BuzzFeed | Posted 10.17.2008 | Politics
A collection of McCain's nastiest attack ads. When even Karl Rove is calling out your ads for being over the top lies, you know things have turned ug...
William Klein | Posted 10.13.2008 | Media
Before long, you realize you've read hundreds more words amplifying Apple's message, squeezing whole minutes more out of the traditional 30-second spot.
Sarah O'Leary | Posted 10.12.2008 | Home
For reasons unbeknownst to this marketer of 22 years, the network censors, the FCC and Congressional oversight committees most often turn a blind eye when it comes to a political ad's actual factual content. The decision to air is left to the individual broadcasters, who make tens of millions of dollars each presidential election campaign cycle from advertising revenues.
Buddy Winston | Posted 10.10.2008 | Home
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Jeffrey Feldman | Posted 10.10.2008 | Media
Why is it that a Republican campaign filled with blunders, chaos, gimmicks, an out-of-touch candidate, scandals, and lies succeeds? The answer just might be found in a political ad -- from 1984.
Talking Points Memo | Evan McMorris-Santoro | Posted 12.09.2009 | Politics