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Industry 01 · Top Vertical

Political & Advocacy

For candidates, ballot measures, causes, and issue campaigns

Political CTV has to be measured with discipline. The goal is to move awareness, recall, favorability, and action — without overstating persuasion unless the test design can prove it.

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POLITICAL · DEADLINE-DRIVEN

Political

For campaigns, committees, and issue-advocacy groups

Political is a fixed-deadline, geographically bounded category. CTV should move persuadable voters and reinforce message recall in the target district — then prove whether exposure drives site visits, donations, volunteer and petition signups, and cost per persuadable household reached.

WHERE IT USUALLY BREAKS

Why Political CTV Underperforms

Campaigns buy streaming like linear — a broad reach buy that over-serves the base and under-serves the persuadable voters who actually decide the race — and because the clock runs to a fixed election date, there’s no time to fix a measurement setup that wasn’t right at launch.

Two things we find almost every time. First, the “paid for by” disclaimer is under the FEC minimum for internet video — at least four seconds on screen and letters at least four percent of picture height — or it’s missing from the streaming cut, and the per-state disclosure and recordkeeping rules for the targeted states were never mapped. Second, the buy is targeted to a DMA that bleeds across district and state lines, so a congressional-district race pays for impressions outside the district — and no in-district geo holdout was reserved, so incrementality cannot be proven before the polls close.

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CORE CONVICTIONS.

Brand Signals

  • Name ID lift

  • Message recall lift

  • Favorability lift

  • Issue awareness lift

  • Persuasion lift, only when supported by a true experimental design

Intent Signals

  • Candidate or issue-specific search lift

  • Campaign-site engagement lift

  • Volunteer-page engagement lift

  • Donation-page engagement lift

  • Pledge-to-vote or petition engagement lift

Business Outcomes

  • Verified turnout lift

  • Verified registration lift

  • Absentee or mail-ballot request lift

  • Incremental volunteer sign-ups

  • Incremental donations

Acquisition Efficiency

  • Cost per persuadable voter reached

  • Cost per verified registration

  • Cost per absentee-ballot request

  • Cost per volunteer sign-up

  • Cost per donation or petition action

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Industry 06 · 2026 Priority

Political & Advocacy

The pressure you're under:

The 2026 cycle is projected at $10.8 billion in total U.S. political ad spend — a record midterm — and CTV is forecast at $2.48 billion of that. Your campaign timelines are compressed, your polling shifts weekly, and your media plan has to pivot at the speed of the news cycle. Most agencies cannot move that fast. The ones that can are charging political-cycle premiums to compensate for it. And every commission dollar your campaign pays an agency is a dollar that didn't go to voter contact.

Where CTV solves it:

CTV is the only major political ad channel growing over 2024 levels, and it's the channel where speed, geographic precision, and audience targeting matter most. We move at the speed of polling data — daily creative rotation, weekly market rebalancing, real-time pivots based on internal numbers. Targeting is built around verified voter file integration, ZIP-code-level precision in battleground markets, and audience suppression to protect against wasted spend on locked-in voters. The success-fee model means every dollar that should go to voter persuasion does.

The KPIs we'll be accountable to:

Cost per persuadable voter reached

Reach against verified registered voter targets in priority precincts

Branded search lift on candidate name

Incremental movement in target geos vs. holdout markets

Volunteer-signup and donation conversion rates

Built for the campaign manager and IE strategist who needs every dollar working — and who can't afford a 15% commission tax in a $30 million ad campaign.

CORE CONVICTIONS.

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THE MEASUREMENT FRAMEWORK

The Four Questions Your Board Will Ask

CTV’s job in political is to reach persuadable voters in the district and keep the message in memory; these four questions test whether it reached the right households and what each contact and action cost.

Your KPIs get set together on the call, against your numbers--not this list.

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01

Did the right household notice?

Brand Signals - measured against a GEO CONTROL

Persuadable households reached in the target district

Frequency per household

Completed views / view-through rate on the disclaimer-compliant spot

Reached vs. Recalled (message retention)

Recall by market (district / DMA)

02

Did it change what they did next?

Intent Signals - behavior after exposure

Campaign-site sessions via the Vibe pixel

Issue and policy page views

“Register to vote” / volunteer page sessions

Petition-signature pixel event

Donate-page-start pixel event

03

Did it move the business?

BUSINESS OUTCOMES MEASURED AGAINST A HOLDOUT

Donations (web purchases and revenue)

Volunteer and petition signups (web leads)

Email-list signups

Voter-file / CRM match-back to contacts

Geo-holdout incremental lift (matched-district control)

04

What did each outcome cost?

ACQUISITION EFFICIENCY-COST PER REAL RESULT

Cost per donation

Cost per petition signature or lead

Cost per signup

Cost per persuadable household reached

Cost per completed view