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Joe Rospars is one of the founders of Blue State Digital. Rospars was the New Media Director of Barack Obama’s presidential campaign and for both the 2008 and 2012 presidential campaigns. Rospars also was Barack Obama’s principal digital strategist and adviser.
He managed the digital integration of fundraising, communications, and mobilization of a grassroots effort. Prior to Obama’s campaign, he worked with Governor Howard Dean at the Democratic National Committee, Dean’s campaign for party chairman, and at Democracy for America, and on Howard Dean’s 2004 presidential campaign.
Rospars has a bachelor’s degree in political science from George Washington University.
Joe Rospars Age
Joe Rospars is one of the founders of Blue State Digital. Rospars was the New Media Director of Barack Obama’s presidential campaign and for both the 2008 and 2012 presidential campaigns. Rospars also was Barack Obama’s principal digital strategist and adviser. He was born on April 14, 1981, he is 38 years old as of 2019
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Joe Rospars is Founder & CEO of Blue State Digital, the creative and tech agency for causes and brands looking to transform how they engage people. From Google to UNICEF, Obama to MIT, Tate Modern to Ford Motor Company, Blue State Digital helps grow communities, build platforms, and transform organizations for the digital age.
Joe was President Barack Obama’s chief digital strategist for both the 2008 and 2012 campaigns, overseeing the digital integration of the unprecedented fundraising, communications, and grassroots mobilization effort.
The digital arm of the campaign engaged a record-breaking number of Americans through mobile, social, video and the web, and raised more than a billion dollars in mostly small donations from ordinary Americans.
Prior to the Obama campaign, Joe led BSD’s work with Governor Howard Dean, from the founding of Democracy for America through Dean’s historic “50 State Strategy” at the DNC and the 2006 election victories.
He is a frequent commentator on CNN, MSNBC, and Bloomberg TV and has appeared in The Washington Post, TIME, Fast Company, WIRED, Adweek and POLITICO, among other outlets.
Joe has been named to WIRED’s “2016 Political Power List” and Advertising Age’s “Digital A-List,” and was included on Rolling Stone’s list of the “100 People Who Are Changing America.”
Led by some of the most creative and analytical minds from the political, nonprofit, and brand worlds, Blue State Digital is a part of WPP Digital and has more than 240 employees in six offices around the world. His pieces of information about marriages, wife, wedding are unknown but stay ready for the update soon
Joe Rospars Blue State Digital
Blue State Digital is a digital strategy and technology firm that specializes in online fundraising, advocacy, social networking, and constituency development. It was founded by former staffers of Howard Dean’s 2004 presidential campaign and provided digital strategy and technology services for the 2008 and 2012 Barack Obama presidential campaigns.
The company is led by the one remaining co-founder, Joe Rospars (CEO). Co-founder Jascha Franklin-Hodge (former CTO) left in July 2014 to become the Chief Information Officer for the City of Boston.
Blue State Digital has offices in New York City, Washington DC, Boston, San Francisco, Chicago, and London. In December 2010, Blue State Digital was acquired by WPP.
History
Howard Dean’s 2004 presidential campaign pioneered new applications of new media to engage voters and raise campaign funds.
In 2004, four former Dean staffers—Jascha Franklin-Hodge, Clay Johnson, Joe Rospars, and Ben Self—founded Blue State Digital to improve technology solutions for political campaigns and provide online strategic services to complement the technology platform. The company launched with offices in Washington, DC, and Boston.
The following year, Thomas Gensemer joined Blue State Digital from America Coming Together, a Democratic-allied advocacy organization, to serve as managing partner.
Blue State Digital’s earliest clients included Ted Kennedy’s Senate campaign, the Communications Workers of America, the Democratic National Committee (chaired by Howard Dean), Harry Reid, and AT&T.
In 2007, Barack Obama’s nascent presidential campaign recruited Blue State Digital to lead its digital efforts. Blue State Digital provided technology services—including web hosting, online fundraising tools, and a custom social networking platform—while Rospars built and led the campaign’s internal new media strategy team.
Over the course of the campaign, this team raised more than $500 million, mobilized millions of volunteers, and built an online community of 13 million supporters.
Blue State Digital grew rapidly after the Obama campaign, opening offices in New York, Los Angeles, and London. It also grew its client base, working with clients like the American Red Cross, United Way, Carnegie Hall, and Vogue Magazine.
On December 30, 2010, Blue State Digital announced that they had been wholly acquired by WPP Digital.
Services
Blue State Digital provides both strategic and technology services. Blue State Digital is also a full-service digital agency that develops and executes multiplatform engagement campaigns.
Its strategic offerings include strategy, design, production, content strategy, digital communications, video, analytics, and online advertising.
The BSD Tools are an online platform that integrates constituent databases, email management, online fundraising, content management, social networking, and web analytics.
2007 “Hillary Clinton 1984” YouTube video
An employee of Blue State Digital, Philip de Vellis, admitted to having created a widely circulated video, “Hillary 1984,” that edited clips from the Hillary Clinton campaign into the famous 1984 television advertisement by Apple Computer.
In a blog entry posted on The Huffington Post, de Vellis indicated that he had resigned from Blue State Digital after making and publishing the video.
The company later released a statement claiming that they had terminated his employment. De Vellis stated in an interview with the Associated Press that he had created the video from home and that Blue State Digital had nothing to do with its creation.
The Obama campaign released a statement stating that it had no knowledge of and had nothing to do with the creation of the ad. De Vellis did claim that he helped design the Obama website. Read also Michael Pollan
De Vellis lived with Senator Obama’s press secretary in 2006 while they were both working on Sherrod Brown’s campaign for Senate.
Joe Rospars Net Worth
Mr. Joe Rospars Founded Blue State Digital, LLC in 2004 and serves as its Chief Executive Officer and previously served its Creative Director. Mr. Rospars has been a Member of Advisory Board of 2U, Inc.
since February 2014. Mr. Rospars served as the New Media Director of Barack Obama’s presidential campaign, where he oversaw all online aspects of the unprecedented fundraising, communications, and grassroots mobilization effort.
For both the 2008 and 2012 presidential campaigns, Mr. Rospars was Barack Obama’s principal digital strategist and advisor, overseeing the digital integration of the unprecedented fundraising, communications, and grassroots mobilization effort.
He led a wide-ranging program that integrated design and branding, web and video content, mass email, text messaging and online advertising, organizing, and fundraising. Prior to the Obama campaign, he led BSD’s work with Gov.
Howard Dean at the Democratic National Committee; during Dean’s campaign for party chairman; and at Democracy for America. He was a writer and strategist in New Media for Dean’s 2004 Presidential campaign.
He holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Political Science from the George Washington University. His pieces of information about net worth, salary are not yet revealed yet but stay ready for the update soon
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