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Scott Goodstein's Catalyst Campaigns Sweeps Top Industry Awards--Validated by Landmark Study on the Future of News Consumption
Scott Goodstein's Catalyst Campaigns earned top industry awards for its digital-first strategy in the 2024 election, using influencers, guerrilla media, and creative storytelling to reshape political communication and reach modern audiences. Read More Here ‘Streeting, Akehurst, who next? How campaigns can fight deepfake attacks’
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. Read More Here |
How Digital Changed the Political Landscape — Scott Goodstein
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. Read More Here How Digital Changed the Political Landscape — Scott Goodstein
Catalyst Campaign’s founder, Scott Goodstein, writes on the evolution of digital technology for modern political campaigns for the academic series Campaigns & Elections American Style 6th Edition. Read More Here |
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Digital Politics with Karen Jagoda: Political Text Spam With Scott Goodstein Of Catalyst Campaigns
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. Read More Here Campaigns may have lost their most effective — and annoying — outreach tool
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. Read More Here Company wants exemption from FEC on disclaimers on political ads on smartphones
A D.C.-based media firm is petitioning the Federal Election Commission to exempt political advertisements on mobile and smartphones from standard ad sponsor disclaimers as campaign messaging adapts to ever-changing technologies. Read More Here Democrats must evolve their voter communication strategies
“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. Read More Here Trump and Harris Duke It Out on Social Media
Donald Trump had lots of momentum on social media a month ago. Now, he is facing a candidate who is drumming up momentum of her own. Read more here Punk at Scale: Amplifying Authenticity
The tension between growth & authenticity, unexpectedness & accessibility, profits & social impact are central themes in today’s success stories. While it involves hard work and constant dialogue, it’s key to staying alive. For Meow Wolf, it’s especially important since the “product” is art & experience. Read more here Former Obama Tech Expert: Democrats Need a Competitive Primary
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. Read more here 10 Actions Every Campaign Can Take to Make A Difference Against Deepfakes
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. Read More Here Scott Goodstein: Founder Of Catalyst Campaigns
Scott Goodstein is the Founder and CEO of Catalyst Campaigns, an accomplished social impact agency focused on creating groundbreaking, effective digital campaigns. Read More Here Why Are Annoying Political Texts Out of Control?
Often unwanted, increasingly unhinged, and almost always asking for money, political texts have become a campaign cash cow—turning America’s touchscreens into a perpetually pinging nightmare of inescapable irritation. Read more here We’ve lost control of political text messaging — here’s how we can rein it in
Anonymous text messages containing disturbing content — such as claiming Black Americans had been “selected to pick cotton” — were sent the day after Election Day, targeting recipients in more than 20 states. Read More Here Abbreviated Pundit Roundup: The greatest ex-President has passed
The 39th president left the White House with his popularity in tatters. But four decades later, he is judged more kindly, in part for what he did after leaving office. Read More Here Re-evaluating field operations
Scott Goodstein is the Founder and CEO of Catalyst Campaigns and a digital pioneer. The results from the 2024 election indicate that the ground game needs a fresh review of how volunteers can be better deployed and how to find trusted messengers for a political campaign. Read More Here Scott Goodstein: Lets End The Myth of Ground Game & Focus on Message & Messenger
Catalyst Campaign’s founder, Scott Goodstein, writes, “as Democrats, we should know that a last-minute paid “ground game” that gets dropped into the battleground days before an election hasn’t worked in years.” Read More Here Catalyst Campaigns Helps Defiance.org & Whistleblower Aid Launch “Obey Only Lawful Orders”
A striking new billboard campaign has appeared near key U.S. military installations in Florida — including MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa and sites near Doral — urging service members to “Obey Only Lawful Orders.” Read More Here Local Prosecutors to Huddle in Nation's Capital on Holding Federal Agents Accountable
A national coalition of locally elected prosecutors will convene in Washington, D.C., this Friday to coordinate legal strategies for holding federal officers accountable when they exceed their lawful authority or engage in criminal conduct in states and cities across the country. Fight Against Federal Overreach ("FAFO") project also releases video from prosecutors warning: "No one is above the law." Read More Here |
Disinformation via text message is a problem with few answers
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. Read More Here Punk Politico: Revolution Messaging’s Scott Goodstein
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. Read More Here How the Sanders Campaign Got a Punk Sensibility
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. Read More Here Former Obama Tech Expert: Democrats Need a Competitive Primary 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. Read More Here Pop stars, massive crowds and history: How the Obama and Harris campaigns compare
Casting himself as “a skinny kid with a funny name” instantly made a barely 40-something Barack Obama a star. Read more here Donald Trump Trolled Us All. We Should Learn From It.
For more than a year, Americans were glued to their smartphones as Donald J. Trump tweeted and retweeted misogynistic, racist, anti-Semitic and xenophobic speech. Read more here ‘Five challenges all Labour election candidates must be prepared for’
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. Read More Here Scott Goodstein Feature In Principal Post’s Cues & Views
Scott Goodstein was recently featured in Cues & Views, as featured in Principal Post. Read More Here Smart Brevity: The Challenges of Media in the Age of AI
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.” Read More Here It’s Good To Be Alive — A Reflection on Recovery from a Motorcycle Accident
Scott Goodstein reflects on his motorcycle accident nine years ago. Read more here. No, Oregon election officials did not send this text message
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. Read More Here Democrats Need to Grow Up and Move Beyond the Myth of the ‘Ground Game’
Once upon a time, in a precinct long, long ago, there was a campaign that built voter contact programs solely from those who lived in the targeted neighborhood. Read More Here New Year’s Resolution for Democrats: Be Honest and End the Myth that Door Knocking is Real ‘Ground Game’
Once upon a time, in a precinct long, long ago, there was a campaign that built voter contact programs solely from those who lived in the targeted neighborhood. Read More Here Catalyst Campaigns Honored with Dual Wins at 2025 Reed Awards
Catalyst Campaigns, an award-winning digital marketing agency led by Scott Goodstein, has been recognized with two prestigious accolades at the 2025 Reed Awards, hosted by Campaigns & Elections magazine. The agency secured wins for "Best Influencer Marketing by a Political Campaign" and "Best Website for an Independent Expenditure Campaign," underscoring its excellence in political campaigning and digital advocacy. Read More Here Scott Goodstein Collaborated on New Study Defining “The Annoyance Economy”
Catalyst Campaigns’ Scott Goodstein recently collaborated with the Groundwork Collaborative in their effort to define what millions of Americans experience every day: the Annoyance Economy — a system of junk fees, endless hold times, spam calls, and bureaucratic friction designed to wear people down. Read More Here Sanders' Not-So-Katy Perry Concert During Iowa Campaign SwingTwo hours away in Davenport, Iowa, a group of about a dozen "working class" performers from around the country performed for a packed house of about 2,400 people at the historic Alder Theater Friday night. The campaign said the timing of the two competing concerts was a coincidence. As one of the organizers, Scott Goodstein put it: “There is a long lineage of progressive, working class musicians” and their show was all about that tradition.
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