Democratic Primaries
Related: About this forumBloomberg hired Fyre Festival promoters to make his campaign memes
A Bloomberg campaign spokesperson did not provide answers to emailed questions from The Verge about the ad campaign, but offered a prepared statement: Mike Bloomberg 2020 has teamed up with social creators to collaborate with the campaign, including the meme world. While a meme strategy may be new to presidential politics, were betting it will be an effective component to reach people where they are and compete with President Trumps powerful digital operation.
The former New York City mayors already run a relatively unorthodox digital campaign, including an awkward ice cream spot and a bizarre mid-debate tweet of Meatball Mike. The new ads, styled to look like direct messages, depict Bloomberg asking creators to make memes about him.
Its the creative work of Jerry Media, better known by its controversial Instagram account, @fuckjerry, or better still as the promoter of the disastrous Fyre Festival in 2017. Astoundingly, this tactic of leveraging influencer accounts was exactly what Jerry Media had done in 2017, resulting in the FTC developing disclosure rules around influencer promotions.
https://www.theverge.com/2020/2/13/21136160/bloomberg-2020-meme-instagram-influencers-campaign-marketing-fyre-festival-promoters
https://www.instagram.com/p/B8U5vUOli6Z/
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
Eugene
(61,938 posts)@GrapeJuiceBoys - an account that often posts memes about black culture and has 2.7m followers - confirmed to the BBC it had produced paid content for the Bloomberg campaign, but said it did not personally endorse the candidate.
Posts about Mr Bloomberg have also appeared in @Tank.Sinatra (2.3m followers) and the account run by Jerry Media (14.9m followers), as well as several others.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-51493403
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
Autumn
(45,120 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
denem
(11,045 posts)Influencers are advertisers - paid content is what they do.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
left-of-center2012
(34,195 posts)and
so
what
?
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
Autumn
(45,120 posts)or you are free to alert on OPs that don't fit the SOP . Cause I like to post.
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
left-of-center2012
(34,195 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
Autumn
(45,120 posts)Hows that for an answer? I just posted another OP on an interesting article I found about him.
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
bluewater
(5,376 posts)stereotypical use of emoji
is so 2016.
is now the cool 2020 useage.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
Blue_true
(31,261 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
patricia92243
(12,598 posts)the article. I don't Twitter or instagram, but I'm thinking it has something to do with them.
Help please
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
Renew Deal
(81,869 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
Happyhippychick
(8,379 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
Autumn
(45,120 posts)and since this is the primaries forum. And he is a candidate I decided to post what information about him I find here. His ads don't tell a lot about him. I think as voters we should inform ourselves. Don't you?
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
Happyhippychick
(8,379 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
Autumn
(45,120 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
Happyhippychick
(8,379 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
Autumn
(45,120 posts)Feel free to post whatever you find interesting. I already know Bernie has a eaten cookie or two in his life.
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
bluewater
(5,376 posts)Someone call the Posting Po-po!
Thanks for the post, Autumn.
I enjoyed it.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
Autumn
(45,120 posts)so wrong.
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
WhiskeyGrinder
(22,399 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
DanTex
(20,709 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Undecided