11/04/2024 | Press release | Distributed by Public on 11/04/2024 14:15
This election cycle, the DNC led its largest-ever 'I Will Vote' paid media campaign, investing nearly $7 million in targeted advertising in battleground states and districts to meet voters where they are - from blanketing cities with targeted GOTV messaging in high-traffic locations like college campuses, malls, and transit centers, to dynamic ad buys across trusted print, radio, and digital platforms reaching diverse voters across the country. In the most important election of our lifetimes, Democrats are mobilizing every corner of our broad coalition and providing voters with the information they need to make a plan to vote to send Vice President Harris to the White House and elect Democrats up and down the ballot.
The DNC's 'I Will Vote' campaign directs voters to the DNC's most complete, accurate, and up-to-date national coverage of polling places and voter education information all in one place. The 'I Will Vote' campaign rounds out the DNC's mission to engage with the diverse voting blocs that will decide the outcome of this election, targeting Native American, LGBTQ+, AANHPI, Haitian, Latino, Black, women, rural, young voters, and more.
As a result of the DNC's historic investments in its 'I Will Vote' paid media campaign, IWillVote.com saw the highest traffic ever in an election cycle.
Take a look at highlights of our 'I Will Vote' campaigns below:
The DNC reached tens of millions of readers and listeners in battleground states and districts in the final week of the election through digital takeovers of iconic lifestyle publications, premium streaming services, and high-trafficked locations like nail salons, malls, and transit centers.
In an effort to meet young voters where they are, the DNC launched a six-figure ad campaign, taking its 'I Will Vote' message to Gen Z voters on 30 college campuses across key battleground states and districts through ads on buses, billboards, kiosks, and flyers, directing young voters to IWillVote.com. In Georgia, to kick off the start of early voting, the DNC launched mobile billboards and campus kiosk ads spread across multiple HBCU campuses encouraging students to register to vote. In Arizona and Georgia, 'I Will Vote' messaging encouraged Arizona college students to register ahead of the state's voter registration deadline.
The DNC rolled out a historic six-figure 'I Will Vote' campaign engaging LGBTQ+ voters with ads in more than 16 LGBTQ+ publications across eight states - reaching over 1 million voters, mobile billboards targeting voters during Atlanta Pride, and used Grindr, the world's largest LGBTQ+ social networking app, to emphasize the consequences of Trump and his Project 2025 allies' crusade against LGBTQ+ rights. The ads encourage LGBTQ+ voters to take control of their hard-earned freedom and reject MAGA Republicans' anti-equality agenda by making their voices heard at the election booth.
To celebrate Indigenous People's Day, the DNC launched a six-figure ad campaign amplifying its 'I Will Vote' initiative to reach Indigenous communities with critical information on how to vote.
The DNC unveiled a six-figure ad buy campaign as part of our 'I Will Vote'/ 'Voy a Votar' initiative targeting voters in San Antonio, Austin, Dallas, and El Paso to use their vote to beat Ted Cruz and elect Colin Allred and Democrats down the ballot through ads on Spanish-language radio and in Latino-focused newspapers. The DNC also invested seven figures to reach Latino voters nationwide in the run-up to Election Day with radio ads encouraging voters to visit IWillVote.com and VoyAVotar.com. In Nevada, bilingual billboards and print ads in Spanish-language publications spread across the state directed Latino voters to visit IWillVote.com to make a plan to vote in November.
Ahead of Taylor Swift's Eras Tour concert in Miami, FL, the DNC led a Taylor Swift-themed 'I Will Vote' campaign targeting youth voters across the battleground states by launching an exclusive new Snapchat filter empowering young voters to be "fearless" this election and visit IWillVote.com, and taking over billboards across Miami.
The DNC launched its first-ever paid ad campaign solely dedicated to reaching Haitian communities. The six-figure 'I Will Vote' campaign reached Haitian voters in Florida through print, digital, and social media ads placed in local Haitian-owned and Haitian-serving publications.
The DNC empowered AANHPI communities to make their voices heard in this election, running ads in 24 publications and key markets in Florida, New York, Maryland, Texas, California, Arizona, Nevada, Georgia, Pennsylvania, Michigan, North Carolina, and Wisconsin in multiple languages.
In battleground states, the DNC took Vice President Harris' pro-worker, pro-union agenda directly to hardworking Americans through an 'I Will Vote' ad campaign reaching union halls and work sites to encourage union members to reject Donald Trump's anti-worker playbook, Project 2025, and head to the polls this November for Democrats.
As part of the DNC's commitment to reaching and empowering Black voters, the DNC rolled out a seven-figure 'I Will Vote' radio ad campaign to engage directly with Black voters, featuring icons and trusted Black voices like Stevie Wonder, Kerry Washington, John Legend, and LeToya Luckett-Coles. During the 2024 BET Hip Hop Awards, Democrats collaborated with the iconic television network to amplify our 'I Will Vote' initiative, inserting a QR code pop-up on the screen directing voters watching around the country to visit IWillVote.com. Additionally, in-person attendees were greeted with an interactive 'I Will Vote' lounge where they could take photos and record messages on the importance of voting.
Hardworking Americans across the Midwest encountered DNC 'I Will Vote' ads placed in hundreds of gas stations and convenience stores. The ads emphasized the consequences of Trump's disastrous economic plan, while uplifting Vice President Harris and Democrats' fight to lower costs.
In California, the DNC launched a six-figure 'I Will Vote' paid media ad targeting AANHPI, Armenian, Black, Latino, and LGBTQ+ communities with ads in multiple languages across 32 constituency publications in all of the state's major media markets to encourage Democratic turnout, including in six critical races to flip the House majority.
The DNC is targeting rural voters in Georgia and North Carolina in its latest 'I Will Vote' campaign that stretches across 15 counties in the rural southern battlegrounds to meet voters on the roads and on the airwaves through a multi-media billboard and rural radio ad campaign.