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Branding in Barack Obama’s Presidential Campaign
It’s been almost two weeks since Barack Obama’s epic US Presidential election victory. Although branding cannot take sole credit for the success of the his campaign, I think it played an important role in establishing a visual identity for both existing members and recruiting new members. An interesting observation on Barack Obama’s branding strategy is pointed out in this blog post – the consistency across all of his communications and the sharable/flexible brand enabled the ‘remix’ of the Obama brand while always retaining a consistent message.

The Public Relations industry has not been the same since the advent of the internet. The first wave of change in the PR industry was the advent of corporate websites and the ability of the information on corporate websites to represent organisational opinion, a brand and make PR announcements. PR professionals had to adapt by adding and controlling content on the PR sections of corporate websites.
