AdStorm Doubles Market Reach, Adds North Carolina to Consumer-Powered Advertising Arsenal
The one-of-a-kind platform that allows anyone to pick and pay for TV ads announced fifteen new TV station partners in four new markets and in one important new battleground state – North Carolina.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – AdStorm (myadstorm.com), the only place in the world where someone can find, select, target, and book political ads on cable and broadcast TV, today announced an expansion that will more than double its reach.
AdStorm launched three weeks ago with 13 stations and cable networks in the key battleground states of Georgia and Pennsylvania. Today’s expansion adds 15 more stations across four new markets and one new state – pivotal North Carolina.
“North Carolina is in play,” said Derek Newton, a political campaign veteran and founder of AdStorm. “As of today, anyone who wants to help tip the tarheel state, can go to AdStorm, create a free account, and put TV ads in front of North Carolina voters,” he said.
AdStorm’s new TV partners and markets include:
Raleigh, NC
- CBS – WNCN
- NBC – WRAL
- ABC – WTVD
Charlotte, NC
- NBC – WCNC
- CW – WCCB
- FOX – WJZY
- INDY – WMYT
- CBS – WBTV
Altoona and State College, PA
- Fox – WWCP
- ABC – WATM
- CBS – WTAJ
Scranton and Wiles-Bare, PA
- NBC – WBRE
- Ion – WQXP
- ABC – WNEP
- CBS – WYOU
These new markets join Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, and Harrisburg in Pennsylvania, and Atlanta, Columbus, and Savannah in Georgia, on the AdStorm site.
“Before AdStorm, blindly making a contribution to a candidate and hoping they do the right thing with your money was the only way to be heard in an election,” Newton said. “But that’s over. Now people can bypass the PACs, bypass the gatekeepers and fancy political consultants and know that their money is going right on TV, where they want it to go,” he said.
On MyAdStorm.com, anyone can create a free account, search for and select the political advertisement of their choice, then specify the market, the TV station, and time slot where that ad will air. Prices are listed for each ad placement, allowing users to cover the cost of the ad placements. Once someone picks an ad, selects the target market, station and time, and pays, the ad is booked. It’s as simple as pick, pay, play.
Putting a 30-second ad on TV in Pennsylvania can cost as little as $28. And airing an ad in a morning news program in the Altoona/State College market in Pennsylvania, for another example, is about $90. For the more expensive placements such as national news or NFL games, AdStorm has crowd-funding options so people can pool smaller contributions into big-time ad buys.
“AdStorm is unleashing pent-up voter energy and anger in a way that has never been done before, giving new voice to millions of Americans,” Newton said. “It’s great. It’s working. And it’s going to change everything.”
About AdStorm
AdStorm gives donors the power to decide where their donations are spent by removing the powerbrokers, big donors, consultants, and other controlling interests. AdStorm lets the average person select the political advertisement of their choice to air in the market and time slot of their choice. Exercise your power at www.MyAdStorm.com
Contacts
Jennifer Harrison for AdStorm
Pando Public Relations
jennifer@pandopublicrelations.com
