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Rock the Vote was founded in 1990 by Jeff Ayeroff with Virgin America co-chair Jordan Harris and Virgin executive Beverly Lund. Later, they hired Jodi Uttal and then Steve Barr, a campaign worker and political fundraiser, who became co-founders for their contribution to Rock the Vote.
P. Diddy said at the time that its mission was to make voting "hot" and "sexy." [3] [4] The 2004 campaign included a line of "Vote or Die" t-shirts, an album, a voter registration push in cities and campuses nationwide, and commercials on such outlets as MTV and BET.
The MTV campaign launched with partners across media, consumer brands, and advocacy organizations, and its advantage of being independent. [8]The bipartisan initiative “Vote Early Day 2020” recruited companies to motivate people to vote by absentee ballots or in person early in response to the coronavirus pandemic.
Taylor Swift has used her acceptance speech for Video of the Year at the MTV Video Music Awards to urge viewers to register to vote in the upcoming US presidential election.. After thanking fans ...
The WNBA has partnered with Rock The Vote since 2018 and ahead of the 2022 midterm elections. It launched a robust social media campaign to get Americans registered on National Voter Registration Day.
Ahead of the 2020 election, Nike released a star-studded get-out-the-vote campaign called “You Can’t Stop Our Voice.” The video starts with a mash-up of some of the biggest sports stars ...
"You'll never look at music the same way again" (The first slogan; appeared on the original blue MTV shirt.) "I want my MTV!" (Originally intended as a promotional tool encouraging subscribers to ask their cable providers to add the MTV network; later became the iconic slogan for MTV for more than a decade, even being featured in the Dire Straits song Money for Nothing)
Redeem the Vote is an American Christian right organization founded by Randy Brinson during the 2004 presidential campaign to register young evangelical Christians to vote, in the model of MTV's youth-vote Rock the Vote campaign. The organization has since moved to issue advocacy and mobilization of an email list self-reported at 71 million names.