From today’s New York Times, “Your Ad Here: Web Surprise Hits ‘08 Race,”
“[T]he [Mitt] Romney campaign had not expected its [advertising] banners to appear on FanFiction.net, whose users have seen thousands of ‘Romney for President’ ads while using the site to write their own plots about their favorite fictional characters….
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But [Romney] campaign aides were surprised to learn from a reporter last week that his banners had…showed up tens of thousands of times on FanFiction.net, according to Advertising.com, the ad network his campaign uses, and Nielsen.
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The aides at first [also] said they did not believe that Mr. Romney’s spots had ever been on Gay.com, but this weekend executives at Advertising.com confirmed that the spot had indeed run on the network over the course of two days in August. They said it was pulled down at the request of Gay.com.”
No word on whether the Mitt Romney campaign gained any staffers or volunteers from FanFiction.net. As for the ad rejection from Gay.com, well other gay groups are running Romney ads like the ad below, so perhaps there’s some confusion where Mitt Romney stands on the issues. As I’m sure the ad below makes clear, he is anti-abortion, supports the NRA and is a social conservative…or at least he is now, I think, maybe?
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