Campaigns on the Cutting Edge evaluates the current trends of today’s campaigns and assesses the innovative changes these well-tuned organizations are making on the presidential, congressional, and gubernatorial levels. As technology now allows candidates to announce their candidacies online, raise money through web fundraising, and mobilize supporters via smartphones, these increasingly mobile and integrated campaigns face the growing influence of outside interests. The thoroughly updated Fourth Edition looks at the 2018 midterm election and focuses on the rise of fake news, women′s activism in the #MeToo movement, voter ballot access measures, and the ways in which technology increases the volume of information that campaigns use.

Campaigns on the Cutting Edge evaluates the current trends of today’s campaigns and assesses the innovative changes these well-tuned organizations are making on the presidential, congressional, and gubernatorial levels. As technology now allows candidates to announce their candidacies online, raise money through web fundraising, and mobilize supporters via smartphones, these increasingly mobile and integrated campaigns face the growing influence of outside interests. The thoroughly updated Fourth Edition looks at the 2018 midterm election and focuses on the rise of fake news, women′s activism in the #MeToo movement, voter ballot access measures, and the ways in which technology increases the volume of information that campaigns use.

Helping students make sense of how and why campaigns are changing, this thoroughly updated second edition focuses on evaluating current trends and assesses how campaigns are making cutting-edge changes—on the presidential, congressional and, gubernatorial levels.

Now revised and updated, this classic book is still the definitive step-by-step guide to creating cutting edge print ads. It covers everything from how advertising works, how brand-building methodologies are changing, how to get an idea, and how copy and art should be crafted. It demystifies the advertising creative process, with page after page of practical, inspiring and often controversial advice from such masters as David Abbott, Bob Barrie, Tim Delaney, David Droga, Neil French, Marcello Serpa, and dozens more. Over 200 print ads and case histories reveal the creative processes at work in world-famous agencies in the US, UK, Asia and Australia. This new edition also includes an exclusive section featuring winning ads from the World Press Awards. No other book takes you on such a journey through the minds of advertising¿s creative leaders.

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