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Why Political Advertising Agencies Influence Elections

By Helene Norris


Advertising agencies are businesses which create, prepare and distribute marketing for their clients. This encompasses any other promotional activity which may be needed. Political advertising agencies focus on working for parties or candidates. They tend to condense the political philosophy into powerful messages and communicate them to the voting public. They seek to influence who the electorate votes for.

Sometimes they try to condense the political message into a powerful slogan. If done well, this can considerably increase a candidate's chance of winning. Famous examples of this include; "Yes We Can", used during Barack Obama's election in 2008. During Ronald Reagan's race to The White House in 1980, his campaign used the powerful slogan; "Let's Make America Great Again". In 1992, Bill Clinton used "It's Time To Change America".

Media buying is a crucial part of an agency's work. This involves calculating which media will best enable the candidate to reach their target audience and how to deliver a powerful message to them. A high quality agency will be experienced in doing this not only in politics but in business too. This kind of knowledge can ensure the candidate builds the best brand.

Lots of agencies offer their clients a market research service. This can be important because it's help in deciding the best strategy for the candidate to reach their target audience. The research often includes an analysis of the targets in order to figure out whether a strategy will be effective or not. The objective of the market research is to find niche markets and get a detailed picture of their characteristics.

A lot of agencies provide a video producing service for their customers. This will usually include a scriptwriter along with a full filmmaking crew. They try for the highest quality of production possible. Youtube has grown in popularity over the last few years, so creating videos for campaigns has become an effective way of communicating the candidates message.

With the growth of websites such as Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn, social media marketing has become very important for politicians. Typically, an agency will develop a full social media marketing campaign for their client. If done effectively, this can spread the political message and win many new supporters for the party or candidate.

Search engine marketing has also become a useful tool. This can include advertising on Google. The purpose is to drive more traffic to the candidate's website and so increase the number of people exposed to the campaign. The website could be brilliant but if there is no way of getting people to visit it then it will have little impact.

Some organisations think that political advertising agencies have a difficult time of it when compared to others in their sector. This is mainly due to the fact that elections are only live for a certain amount of time. They end on election day. As a result, it can be hard to create a brand properly. Some say the campaigns are ego driven too, so coming up with good advertising is not all that effective. However, it's true that agencies can make large amounts of money while working on political campaigns.




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