Interactive CTV Simulator

How Political Domains Turn
Search Intent Into CTV Audiences

Enter or pick a domain. The five panels below rewrite themselves to show how that domain's traffic can become a campaign-ready Connected TV audience.

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PrimaryVotes.com

Signal read as

Neutral / dual-funnel

Audience category

Primary Super-Voter

Use-case segment

High-Intent Primary Researcher

How PrimaryVotes.com traffic could optimize a CTV campaign

1

Isolate the Super-Voter

Efficiency & budget

General population

Broad, unfiltered traffic

Visit to PrimaryVotes.com

Filters for active civic interest

The Super-Voter (~15%)

People who actually engage with voting, primaries, or campaigns

CTV Execution

Only pay CPMs on the 15% that vote

~85% noise removed vs. mass-market buys

2

Bipartisan Cross-Segmentation

The dual-funnel bucket

PrimaryVotes.com

Ideologically neutral — users self-select into party buckets.

Democratic bucket

~46% of traffic

Republican bucket

~44% of traffic

Independent / issue bucket

~10% — routed by issue engagement

CTV Execution

One domain, two campaign audiences

Same asset supports Dem and Rep buys — split 46/44

3

Persuasion & Swing Segmenting

High-value research signal

Active research on PrimaryVotes.com

Comparing candidates, schedules, ballots, or policy positions

High-intent persuadable pool

Estimated ~35% of the super-voter set

Segment: Cross-Primary Persuadable

Policy-heavy creative, not generic mobilization

CTV Execution

Serve nuanced persuasion ads to ~35%

Generic mobilization creative held back from this segment

4

Predicting Midterm & Off-Year Turnout

Real-time behavioral proxy

Old state voter files

Static, refreshed every few months — misses off-year intent

Digital behavior on PrimaryVotes.com

Fresh signal, updated with every visit

~90% higher propensity score

For off-year voters visiting PrimaryVotes.com vs. the file average

CTV Execution

"Likely Off-Year Voters" bought at a premium

Local, state, and special-election buys favor this segment

5

Fundraising & Donor Modeling

Donor audience expansion

PrimaryVotes.com visitors

Statistically likelier than average to donate

Known donor lists

FEC & vendor files

Financial indicators

Capacity signals

AI / ML lookalike donor model

Even non-donors become prospects at scale

CTV Execution

Debate-night fundraising ads with QR codes

Modeled donor segment sees ~5× the response rate

Smart TV Execution

Every panel above feeds the same CTV pipeline: a household that visited PrimaryVotes.com can be reached on their living-room TV as a primary super-voter, a cross-primary persuadable, a likely off-year voter, or a modeled donor lookalike — from one domain interaction.

Beyond CTV — Other Ways a Campaign or End-User Can Use This Domain

One domain visit, many activation channels

CTV is only one destination. The same audience signal from PrimaryVotes.com can be pushed into most of the tools a modern campaign, PAC, non-profit, advocacy group, or commercial brand already uses.

Programmatic Display & Video

Retarget the same household across news sites, YouTube, and mobile web via DSPs (The Trade Desk, DV360, StackAdapt).

Paid Social

Upload hashed emails / device IDs as custom audiences on Meta, TikTok, X, and Reddit; build lookalikes off high-intent visitors.

Email & SMS Outreach

Match domain visitors to voter-file emails/phones for direct fundraising, GOTV reminders, and volunteer recruitment.

Direct Mail

Append postal addresses via voter-file match for persuasion mailers, absentee-ballot chase, and donor asks.

Door-Knock & Phone Bank Lists

Feed high-persuadable or high-turnout scores into canvassing apps (NGP VAN, Ecanvasser) to prioritize doors.

Donor Prospecting & Modeling

Score visitors against donor databases to build major-donor lookalikes for finance teams and PACs.

Polling & Research Panels

Recruit likely persuadables into message-testing surveys and focus groups.

Lookalike Audience Modeling

Use the seed audience to model similar households nationwide for scale campaigns.

Commercial / Brand Use

Non-political end-users (news publishers, advocacy brands, unions, issue groups) can use the same signals for civic-engagement or subscription marketing.

Sources & Methodology

Where the numbers come from

The percentages shown in each panel are illustrative benchmarks calibrated against publicly reported ranges from campaign-tech and political-ad research. They are not measurements of the specific domain you entered.

  • Party lean & voter-file match rates: L2 Political, TargetSmart, Catalist, and i360 publicly document 70–90% match rates between hashed digital identifiers and voter files (L2, TargetSmart).
  • Persuadable / swing share: Pew Research and AP VoteCast consistently estimate 6–15% of the electorate as true persuadables in a general election (Pew).
  • Turnout uplift from targeted digital + CTV: Academic field experiments (Green & Gerber; Analyst Institute replications) report 0.5–3 percentage-point lifts on targeted low-propensity voters.
  • Donor lookalike lift: ActBlue, WinRed, and NGP VAN case studies report 2–8× ROI on modeled donor lookalikes vs. cold prospecting.
  • CTV reach & household match: IAB and eMarketer put 2024 U.S. CTV household penetration at ~87%, with ACR/IP-graph matching typically resolving 60–80% of visitors to a TV household.

Disclaimer

This tool is an educational simulator. It does not query live traffic, ad exchanges, voter files, or any third-party data provider. Percentages, audience labels, and party-lean readings are generated from the domain name itself and from published industry benchmarks — not from actual visitors to that domain. Any real-world campaign use of this workflow must comply with applicable privacy laws (CCPA/CPRA, GDPR, VPPA, TCPA), platform policies, and consent requirements, and should rely on vetted first-party or licensed data providers.