The Election Beat podcast: Who is winning the general election media and marketing battle so far?
In the first episode of our new Election Beat podcast, The Drum is joined by an expert panel to debate which parties will be happiest with their media and marketing performance at the halfway point in the campaign.
We also take a look at why UK politicians are lagging behind their US counterparts on social media, examine claims that this election has been too stage-managed and pick out the likely winners and losers from tonight's challengers' television debate.
Joining The Drum's Cameron Clarke in the podcast at Jungle Studios this week are:
- Michael Moszynski, CEO of London Advertising. Moszynski ran the Conservatives' 2005 election campaign.
- Chris Boffey, former Mirror, Observer and Sunday Telegraph news editor and onetime special adviser to the Labour government.
- Cat Turner, CEO of Cult LDN. Turner co-founded PoliticsHome and managed online comms for the Lib Dems in the 2010 election.
- Ryan Wain, director of business development at TBWA\London and former House of Commons adviser.
- And Chris Moody, creative director of Wolff Olins.
The Election Beat will be running weekly throughout this general election campaign with new episodes available to stream/download on thedrum.com, and The Drum's Soundcloud page, every Thursday.