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Political ads are on streaming apps now too

Recode Daily

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Society & Culture, Science, Technology

4.61.3K Ratings

🗓️ 3 March 2020

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Streaming services like Hulu and Roku are the newest platforms for political ads. The Washington Post's Tony Romm explains why regulation still hasn’t caught up. Featuring @TonyRomm Links to resources discussed: https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/02/20/hulu-roku-political-ads-streaming/ Host: Allegra Frank @LegsFrank About Recode by Vox: Recode by Vox helps you understand how tech is changing the world — and changing us. Follow Us: Newsletter: Recode Daily Twitter: @Recode Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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IBM, let's create. When we talk about political ads on this show, we mostly talk about the ones we see on social media.

0:42.0

But I recently read about a whole other area of the internet

0:45.0

where political ads are popping up.

0:47.0

Tony Ram reported on this for the Washington Post.

0:50.0

The story behind my story actually starts with a conversation I had with one of the editors a few weeks ago,

0:56.1

who was watching the Food Network app or some sort of cooking show,

0:59.6

and in the course of watching it, happened to see an ad for Tom Steyer.

1:04.0

Imagine a day when what's said at your kitchen table matters more to politicians in Washington

1:09.8

than what's said in corporate boardrooms.

1:11.9

And she walked away from that and thought to herself,

1:13.5

why am I seeing this stuff here?

1:15.2

You know, you're used to seeing that on television

1:17.2

and increasingly we're trained to see those ads on Facebook

1:20.8

and YouTube and other social media sites,

1:22.5

but it sort of surprised her and, you know, by extension,

1:25.4

me, that we were sort of seeing this

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