Situation
Kevin Cramer hired Odney in 2018 for his U.S. Senate race to change and shape the way people think and vote to help him win his campaign and become North Dakota’s U.S. Senator.
Objective
Knowing Cramer’s awareness was high, we did our research to understand what motivated people to vote. With that information, we targeted specific voter audiences for various creative executions to reach the right audience, at the right time, with the right message. The primary goal was to increase voter participation for Cramer and motivate North Dakotans to vote Cramer.
Strategy
Our strategy was to change voting behavior and build support for Cramer with paid digital and social media campaigns and the right traditional media-mix for his campaign for U.S. Senate. By applying behavioral, demographic, contextual and geographic filters to reach those precise target audiences, we created more voters for our candidate. The strategy included the use of voter data lists to create custom audiences and build look-alike audiences from those lists, along with developing the right messaging that resonated with key audiences at different times during the campaign.
Tactics
Targeting specific audiences on social and digital, we utilized video campaigns sending traffic to the website to learn more, donate, volunteer and motivate to vote for Cramer. These video campaigns included working with digital vendors, YouTube, Facebook and Instagram advertising with a mobile first strategy. For traditional media we developed advertisements for TV, radio and print, along with utilizing detailed audience lists with email marketing, reaching voters with a research-based marketing strategy using the right channels.