06Case Study — Hawkfish, 2020

Hawkfish

I oversaw social and content for the Mike Bloomberg 2020 presidential campaign — and when the primary ended, I flexed to lead social and creative for a nationwide voter turnout effort.

Role
Social & Content Lead
Discipline
Political Campaign
Location
New York · National
Duration
Full 2020 primary cycle
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Nationwide voter turnout campaign film.
Nationwide voter turnout campaign film.
Nationwide voter turnout campaign film.
I. The Challenge

Two mandates in one cycle: run social and content at presidential-campaign speed while the news cycle moved hourly, then redirect the entire operation to a different job — driving voter turnout nationally through organic social and influencer content, backed by paid, dynamically optimized creative at huge scale.

II. Approach

How we got there.

  1. 01

    Led social and content for the campaign itself — a real-time operation built to answer the news cycle in hours, not days.

  2. 02

    After the primary, flexed the same team into a nationwide voter turnout effort focused around organic social and influencer content.

  3. 03

    Paired the organic and influencer work with paid, dynamically optimized creative — variants tested and optimized continuously rather than one fixed spot.

III. Execution

Leadership of social and creative across both phases: campaign social and content through the primary, then the nationwide turnout effort — organic social, influencer content, and paid dynamically optimized creative at huge scale.

IV. Results
Presidential
Social & content for the campaign
Nationwide
Voter turnout effort after the primary
Organic + paid
Influencer content with dynamically optimized creative
Huge scale
Continuous optimization across variants
V. Credits
  • Social & Content LeadKatie Walmsley
  • OrganizationHawkfish