Scott Goodstein In The Press
June 4, 2024, Common Dreams
Nefarious audio and video content made to trick voters present a clear and present danger to free and fair elections. Deepfakes technology has advanced at a rapid speed as computer processing technology has become faster and cheaper, and audio and video editing software has become universally available.
‘Streeting, Akehurst, who next? How campaigns can fight deepfake attacks’
June 4, 2024, Labour List
Nefarious audio and video content made to trick voters present a clear and present danger to free and fair elections. Deepfake technology has advanced at a rapid speed as computer processing technology has become faster and cheaper and audio and video editing software has become universally available.
‘Five challenges all Labour election candidates must be prepared for’
February 4, 2024, Labour List
With the PM seemingly having committed to the general election taking place in the second half of 2024, candidates need to make the most of the limited time available to prepare themselves.
How Digital Changed the Political Landscape — Scott Goodstein
November 21, 2023, Medium
It was an honor to write on the evolution of digital technology for modern political campaigns for the academic series, Campaigns & Elections American Style 6th Edition.
Smart Brevity: The Challenges of Media in the Age of AI
October 6, 2023, University Of Virginia
When he was a young reporter covering the Obama administration for The Washington Post, Nick Johnston had a sneaking suspicion: “My stories were too long, and they were too boring.”
Multimillion-Dollar ‘Disinformation Campaign’ Seeks To Make Ohio’s Big Abortion Vote About ‘Sex Change’ Operations
August 4, 2023, Talking Points Memo
Lil Miss Hot Mess, a prominent drag queen, realized about a week ago that she had been pulled into a fight over abortion in Ohio, which is over a thousand miles from her current home.
July 13, 2023, Common Dreams
As a kid, I worked in a men’s store tailor shop on the East Side of Cleveland. It was chaos, watching master tailors cut, sew, and press tiny threads into modern fashion.
Scott Goodstein: Founder Of Catalyst Campaigns
May 16, 2023, IdeaMensch
Scott Goodstein is the Founder and CEO of Catalyst Campaigns, an accomplished social impact agency focused on creating groundbreaking, effective digital campaigns.
March 25, 2023, Common Dreams
Currently, there are no significant consequences for political campaigns, their data vendors, or peer-to-peer software providers to prevent them from continuously spamming voters.
Politicians must be held accountable to FCC’s new anti-spamming rules
March 23, 2023, The Hill
Do you have a friend, maybe an ex-girlfriend or an ex-boyfriend, who won’t stop texting you? Then you know how annoying and difficult it is, once they have your number, to block them.
I thought I was done getting political text messages. Then Herschel Walker reached out
November 13, 2022, The Tribune
For a while there, I was super popular. Val Demings was texting me two or three times a day. So was Mark Kelly. I even heard from two former presidents — 44 and 45! (I’m lucky enough to have friends from both sides of the aisle.)
Text messages with misleading election info hit voters in 5 states
October 31, 2022, NBC News
Voters in five states received text messages in recent days containing false information about how to vote, but the company that sent them says it was an error.
No, Oregon election officials did not send this text message
October 21, 2022, KGW8
An official-looking text message created confusion among some Oregon voters because the information in the text — including the voter’s name or address — was incorrect. It didn’t match official voting records.
Digital Politics with Karen Jagoda: Political Text Spam With Scott Goodstein Of Catalyst Campaigns
October 2022, Digital Politics With Karen Jagoda
Scott Goodstein is the CEO and Founder of Catalyst Campaigns and is active in the war against spam. He sets the stage with a description of the early days of mass text messaging by the Obama campaign in 2008.
Artists United for Change Creates Abortion Rights Billboards in Advance of the Midterm Elections
October 19, 2022, Bloomberg
As the nation continues to reel from the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, a group of artists has come together to call attention to the importance of fighting for abortion freedoms this November.
Artists United for Change Creates Abortion Rights Billboards in Advance of the Midterm Elections
October 19, 2022, Yahoo Finance
As the nation continues to reel from the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, a group of artists has come together to call attention to the importance of fighting for abortion freedoms this November.
Disinformation via text message is a problem with few answers
September 13, 2022, NBC News
The biggest election disinformation event of the 2022 midterm primaries was not an elaborate Russian troll scheme that played out on Twitter or Facebook. It was some text messages.
An Interview With Scott Goodstein About Political Text Messaging
August 11, 2022, Vocal Media
Scott Goodstein is interviewed about text messaging within politics. Text messaging for political campaigns started during Barack Obama’s 2008 campaign.
Campaigns may have lost their most effective — and annoying — outreach tool
July 19, 2022, Vox
Text messaging — with their markedly high “open rates” — is an especially potent form of political outreach: Since 2016, texting has become one of the most appealing ways for campaigns to engage voters or supporters, especially as so many have ditched their landlines.
Awarded Best Website Development And Strategic Design For Public Affairs Impact Campaigns
May 26, 2022, Catalyst Campaigns
Catalyst Campaigns is honored to receive two top industry association awards for the work their team did on behalf of the National Women’s Soccer Players Association (NWSLPA) and their historic first collective-bargaining agreement with the NWSL.
Catalyst Campaigns Wins Tops Industry Awards For Social Impact Digital Marketing
May 27, 2022, EIN Presswire
Catalyst Campaigns is honored to receive two top industry association awards for the work their team did on behalf of the National Women’s Soccer Players Association (NWSLPA) and their historic first collective-bargaining agreement with the NWSL.
How the FCC can protect consumers from unwanted political text message spam
May 23, 2022, The Hill
Have you been getting bombarded with unwanted political text messages on your personal cell phone? Have you noticed that opting out of these annoying messages leads to an endless game of whack-a-mole, such that replying “STOP” or “UNSUBSCRIBE” only causes you to receive similar messages from different phone numbers?
Democrats must evolve their voter communication strategies
November 9, 2021, The Hill
“I got a call from Bill Clinton!” my grandmother informed me one day many years ago, thrilled that the president of the United States had taken time out of his busy schedule to call her. But he hadn’t. Instead, it was her first encounter with an exciting new technology – robocalls – which were used to remind voters to get out and cast a ballot. Wow, did she kvell about this experience and tell all her friends to go vote for her friend Bill.
How Democrats can help Biden make the sale
April 29, 2020, The Hill
I grew up in retail, the son of a haberdasher, so it’s easy for me to look at the presidential campaign as a basic sales challenge. Or to quote my old man, “Don’t blame the customer for not buying a product if they were never talked to.” So why, in today’s politics, are Democrats not marketing our candidate to those who are most likely to support him?
Don’t applaud Twitter for flagging one tweet
May 28, 2020, The Hill
Twitter may be looking to burnish its battered image by starting to flag President Trump’s tweets when they are clearly at variance with the truth, but we shouldn’t forget: This is a platform that has shown little social responsibility in the past, and we’d be fools for thinking it’s going to start now.
Sunburn — The morning read of what’s hot in Florida politics — 9.29.20
September 29, 2020, Florida Politics
Democrats hit big VBM milestone — The Florida Democratic Party is announcing a major milestone: One-million more Democrats have enrolled in vote-by-mail than in 2018.
How an ex-Bernie digital guru and the creator of the Obama ‘Hope’ poster will be trolling President Trump as he motorcades through Cleveland for the debate
September 26, 2020, Business Insider
Former Bernie Sanders digital strategist Scott Goodstein is one of three organizers behind the art project, with one billboard featuring a cartoon President Donald Trump floating over a cemetery.
Case Study: How the Obama Presidential Campaign Leveraged Mobile Marketing to Generate Support, Increase Participation and Outreach
Marketing Profs
Mobile marketing offers a sense of immediacy and intimacy that few other media can. Such timely connection is what the Obama for America Presidential campaign leveraged to establish deeper relationships with supporters, provide them with breaking news, and motivate them to become active contributors and promoters.
PopTech Forum Unveils 2019 Program “Shift”
October 10, 2019, PRWeb
PopTech, named by Forbes as one of the most inspiration forums in America in 2018, has announced a provocative program that will explore cultural and societal shifts from multiple points of view.
Catalyst Campaigns’ Scott Goodstein on Yebiga, Working with Faith No More’s Bill Gould and Future Projects
April 6, 2020, Jewish Journal
Scott Goodstein is probably best known for his work with unique political campaigns that blend art, music, and culture. Having co-founded Punkvoter.com, Rock Against Bush, Artists For Obama, Artists For Bernie, DailyAction, CreativeMajority, and LadyPartsJusice, he has built impactful programs that have changed the world in which we live.
Punk Politico: Revolution Messaging’s Scott Goodstein
December 3, 2013, Washingtonian
On a Sunday in early April, Scott Goodstein set off on a motorcycle tour of Maryland horse country with his cousin and a friend from political circles. They hadn’t gone far when, at 7:30 in the morning, a GMC Yukon pickup truck coming in the other direction caught the front tire of Goodstein’s Yamaha.
Former Obama Tech Expert: Democrats Need a Competitive Primary
March 27, 2015, TIME
For much of our nation’s history, there have been insiders who aimed to quash competition within political parties. Even today, far too many party elites seem to think uncontested primaries are better. However, competitive primaries force an evolution of organizing models and new technologies that benefits campaigns and the public.
Democrats: The road to kumbaya
February 13, 2020, The Hill
Several of the Democratic presidential candidates have invoked party unity in the wake of the New Hampshire primary, but the party is a long way from being united.
The Campaign Tech To Watch As The 2016 Race Gets Underway
2016, PRWeek
Will 2016 be the Periscope election? The Meerkat election? Or the even bigger data election? It’s not that simple, but new platforms will help campaigns perform faster and more consistently across media than ever before.
How the Sanders Campaign Got a Punk Sensibility
August 1, 2016, The New Yorker
Last Thursday, a few hours before the end of the Democratic National Convention, two consultants to the Bernie Sanders campaign, Scott Goodstein and Arun Chaudhary, sat in the lobby of their Philadelphia hotel and considered what had become of the grassroots support for the candidate.
10,000 Hours: A Political Messaging Revolutionary
November 2017, American University Magazine
Scott Goodstein, SPA/BA ’95, SPA/MPA ’99, loves two things that might seem inharmonious: politics and punk rock. Ever the nonconformist, he’s fashioned a career without cooling on either and has become a Washington power player in the process.
Vote 4 Me!!
March 5, 2012, Slate
The political consultants who want to send you unsolicited text messages, and the man who is fighting to stop them.
Texting has promise, peril for campaigns
April 9, 2012, The Washington Times
Text messaging is posing both new opportunities and dangers for America’s political campaigns. The most widely used form of mobile communication, it has become one of the most effective ways for campaigns to reach supporters, using 160-character messages to encourage last-minute donations or provide information such as where to vote.
Obama’s Social Media Guru On Marketing, Media, Music
October 4, 2009, NPR
Scott Goodstein was in charge of then-Sen. Barack Obama’s social networking strategy during the presidential campaign. This week, he’s a panelist at the Future of Music Coalition Policy Summit in Washington, D.C. He speaks to guest host Jacki Lyden about the future of marketing, media and music in the Internet age.
How Obama used social networking tools to win
July 10, 2009, Knowledge Insead
Defend the Press, Sarah Olson, Declare Victory in Watada Court Martial
January 29, 2009, PRWatch
The Honolulu Advertiser first reported the breaking news that “The U.S. government has agreed to drop two charges that carried a maximum of two years in prison against Army 1st Lt.
Obama campaign manager talks new media
January 11, 2009, Los Angeles Times
Scott Goodstein, a Washington, D.C.-based campaign manager, ran all of the text-messaging and mobile communications for the president-elect’s campaign. The Ticket recently talked to him in detail about the campaign’s new-media strategy.
The Man Behind Obama
May 26, 2009, Campaign Live
At last month’s Digital Britain Summit a surprise appearance by Prime Minister Gordon Brown saw him emphasise the importance of the internet to the UK economy. With a general election a certainty before June 2010, the main political parties are now thinking about how they can use the web to enhance their campaign strategies.
Obama’s Wide Web
August 20, 2008, Washington Post
Amid the cramped, crowded cubicles inside Sen. Barack Obama‘s campaign headquarters here, sandals are as ubiquitous as iPods. Two young guys in shorts and T-shirts throw a football around.
CBGB Announces August Show Schedule To Benefit Save CBGB Campaign; The Vandals, Kid Dynamite, Misfits, Chevelle, Youth Brigade All Added to August Schedule
July 26, 2005, WebWire
After weeks of trying to receive a new lease CBGB Nightclub is still working to achieve an agreement with their landlord, The Bowery Resident’s Committee.
Interview: Scott Goodstein
April 21, 2009, Third Sector
Scott Goodstein is one of eight digital media experts worthy of the title ‘Barack Obama’s web guru’, according to a satirical piece on influential US gossip website Gawker.com.