Opportunity Arizona

Changing minds with targeted video ads

During the 2022 cycle, Change Media Group worked with Opportunity Arizona to narrow the Republican majority in the Arizona legislature. To do this, we focused on three Democratic candidates in two highly-competitive state legislative districts in Phoenix and the surrounding suburbs.

This heavily-tested and highly-creative bilingual program gave Arizona voters the information they needed to make an informed decision about their state legislators, and we are proud to have won every race targeted with Opportunity Arizona’s state legislative paid program in 2022.

Week 18
Research & Polling

After reading the latest research and polling results, we identified the top issues. Education and extremism polled highly across the board, especially with Latino voters.

Weeks 17-14
Creative Production Starts

After message testing highlighted top issues, we produced multiple videos with different messages and angles.

Week 13
Creative Testing

We then ran these videos through a creative test, and were able to identify the most persuasive creative.

Week 11
Digital Program Launched
BENEFITS OF EARLY PROGRAM: A Pew Research study found that in 2020, 84% of voters had made up their minds before September. Additionally, our own studies show that video ad creative lift (the ability to persuade) decreases over time. For these reasons, it was imperative to start our persuasion program early.
Weeks 11-3
Video: Us Moms
Knowing that education was a top-polling issue, we created “Us Moms,” which sought to inform voters about which candidates would stand up for students and education funding. “Us Moms” had a 1.8% lift in favorability for generic Democratic candidates among Hispanic likely voters and a 4.4% lift for swing voters overall.
Week 10
Streaming Radio Launched

With a Spanish radio ad inspired by the “Us Moms” video, we were able to reach 10.5k Latino voters in key district zip codes through streaming radio platforms.

Weeks 7-3
Video: Extremism
To complement the positive “Us Moms” video, we also produced a negative video that highlighted the extremism of the Republican candidates in each district.
Weeks 3-1
Video: The Deep End
Our goal with “The Deep End” video was uniquely visualize the threat of that extremism. This video was one of the top-performing concepts, with a 1.6% lift overall and a 3.8% lift in candidate support amongst swing voters.
Weeks 2-1
Video: Mary Ann Mendoza
In the final weeks leading up to the election, our team created a rapid response video that featured racist photos posted by Republican Mary Ann Mendoza. This video ran in the final week in District 9.
Week 1
Election Day

Overall, we served over 22 million impressions and reached 175,614 voters across the two legislative districts with an average frequency of 16.4 times per week.

Winning Results!

This multilingual program helped ensure narrow victories for all three targeted candidates.

Lorena Austin
+ 0 %
Seth Blattman
+ 0 %
Jennifer Pawlik
+ 0 %

Program Metrics by Week

Weeks Impression Spend Frequency
11
814,740
$18,520
10.7
10
2,044,927
$41,118
25.7
9
2,367,648
$50,571
24.1
8
2,203,000
$40,019
20.0
7
2,182,949
$38,665
13.6
6
2,274,899
$40,746
15.9
5
2,210,558
$39,162
15.4
4
2,208,017
$38,093
17.4
3
1,909,038
$38,934
14.5
2
1,858,410
$36,899
16.1
1
2,227,817
$71,835
25.0

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