Presidential webvideo campaigns

     The era of YouTube has already had an indelible influence on politics. Just ask George Allen. This fact is not lost on the 2008 Whitehouse aspirants either. This presidential campaign will probably be the first one where webvideos will play a prominent part.
     With the exception of Rudy Giuliani and to some extent Sen. Brownback, all the front runners have a video section on their campaign websites. Both Democratic and Republican Candidates are unanimous in their choice of YouTube . Also Sen. Obama and Sen. Brownback atleast one thing in common - both use Brightcove to host their video/s.

* - DEMOCRATIC Candidates - *

Barack Obama


Hillary Clinton


John Edwards


Bill Richardson


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*- REPUBLICAN Candidates-*

John McCain This is probably the best of the bunch. A very slick site in monochromatic tones and extensive use of web videos.



Mitt Romney


Sam Brownback - The only video on the site - announcing his candidacy.



     On a related note - There is now an interactive web-video forum called Fora.tv, dedicated to the topics of current Political, Social and Cultural issues. This is a very interesting effort by founder & CEO Brian Gruber. The site features various channels, with content derived from sources such as Brookings Institution, Hoover Institution, Cato institute and C-SPAN to name the few.