Tuesday, 13 July 2010

Facts and Opinions

Facts:
  • 3,000 posters were made through the 'mydavidcameron.com' website which were spread through Facebook and Twitter. This allowed a £500,000 Tory advertising campaign at a zero cost.
  • Advertising industry magazine campaign have reported that they got hold of 3 Tory's videos that are deemed too controversial and edgy to release.
  • According to 1,000 respondents, national and regional print and broadcast media were selected as influencing them most by 59% of people.
Opinions:
  • "Political advertising during an election campaign effectively favours the richer parties to the detriment of the others." Jonathan Fryer
  • "The Conservatives must have spent tens of thousands of pounds advertising their parliamentary candidate in the local press." Jonathan Fryer

Sources:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/organgrinder/2010/jul/12/reuters-social-media-report
http://politicaladvertising.co.uk/category/conservative-party-uk/
http://understrictembargo.com/?tag=uk-general-election-2010
http://jonathanfryer.wordpress.com/2010/04/30/political-advertising-and-local-newspapers/

1 comments:

KS Media Studies said...

Have you looked at the posters?

I'm not sure the Conservatives would have been that happy!

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