CBSNews.com and Washingtonpost.com are teaming up to share election-related content as a way of standing out in the increasingly crowded election news market. In a release about the partnership, CBS said:
The online relationship will join the rich tradition of both organizations, providing the combination of the most compelling video coverage from CBS News correspondents,...
Continue ReadingMicah Sifry’s post last week about YouTube metrics got me thinking about which videos produced by the campaigns have been viewed the most on YouTube. Following is a list of Dem Presidential candidate videos that have attracted more than 200,000 YouTube views. I’ve excluded YouTube spotlight videos, since they tend to attract a ton of views no matter the candidate/quality of the question....
Continue ReadingMany people are buzzing about how snazzy 2008 presidential campaign sites are with their slick designs, multimedia content, and social networking tools, but how many campaigns are taking advantage of Internet text ads?
Awhile ago I took a snapshot at who are buying Google text ads for searches for both democrats and republicans presidential candidates and found that only Rudy Giuliani, John McCain,...
Continue ReadingI’m a big fan of the Facebook, MySpace and Technorati stats TechPresident is keeping on the 2008 Presidential candidates. These stats are a good measure of the amount of traction each candidate is getting in those communities and on the web overall.
The YouTube stats, however, are really deceptive due to the vastly different ways candidates are using YouTube....
Continue ReadingRegular readers of this blog know that we are part of the web development team working on the Fred Thompson website, www.imwithfred.com. On Monday afternoon, the team launched a new version of the site. Frankly, I’m too tired to write up a good entry summarizing all the new features so I’m going to cheat and just link out:
(1) The Fred File blog has a good breakdown of what has been added....
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