Posted by: K Street Cafe Editor
Your video just got 50,000 views on YouTube and 25 blogs picked up your campaign and posted stories on it. What’s it worth?
We are pretty comfortable figuring out how much a one minute story on the evening news is worth in paid advertising, but when it comes to online “hits” the conversion isn’t so obvious. In addition to the size of a website’s audience, we have to figure in, among other things, whether the site has tools to share the content out to the social web and whether or not its audience is likely to do so. It gets a little tricky figuring out what it is worth online.
I Am Progress is hosting its monthly Internet Advocacy Roundtable titled “What’s It Worth” on Thursday, January 15th from 3 PM to 5 PM. (more…)
Posted by: Alan Rosenblatt
The coming of age of the Millennial Generation, the first civic generation since the GI Generation (dubbed the Greatest by Tom Brokaw), is converging with the arrival of the most civic-friendly communication technologies we have ever seen. And with this convergence, American politics is being reshaped. That was the message delivered yesterday by Morley Winograd and Michael Hais at the Internet Advocacy Roundtable. The authors of Millennial Makeover: MySpace, YouTube & the Future of American Politics provided some serious grist for the mill to the audience gathered at the Center for American Progress Action Fund.
Building on a rich body of research about political realignment in America, Hais and Winograd explained that a key driving force in realigning the political landscape is the arrival of new communications technology, and the coming of age of a new generation that embraces the technology and demands its incorporation into the political process. The rise of radio in the 1930’s and television in the 1960’s both reshaped politics in this country. And today, the rise of online social media is doing it once again. (more…)
