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FRANCESCA HONG FOR GOVERNOR

Comprehensive communications
& paid media · 16 weeks to August 11
Submitted To
Rep. Francesca Hong Hong for Governor
Madison, Wisconsin
Submitted By
Daniel Deriso President & Founder, VoteShift
April 20, 2026
Foreword

WISCONSINHAS A REALCHANCE.

Three Marquette polls. The smallest war chest. The biggest movement. Fran is the candidate this firm was built to elect.

Democrats have a real chance to nominate a candidate who is not the establishment pick, who built her support outside of Madison's consultant class, and who is leading three consecutive Marquette polls with the smallest war chest in the field.

VoteShift wants to help finish what her campaign has already started. We come to this with three things that matter on August 11: a track record building campaigns that look like Fran's, a fully integrated shop where every dollar moves further, and staff in district — Ryan Solsten lives in Madison.

When you hire VoteShift, you get all of us. Poured in. Passionate. Fully on the team.

VoteShift × Hong for Governor02 / Foreword
Why This Race

FRAN IS WINNING
THE FIGHT FOR ATTENTION.

3
Consecutive Marquette polls leading the Democratic primary field.
5,000+
Unique givers — more than Mandela Barnes and Sara Rodriguez combined.
$15
Median gift size. The donor base is real, in-state, and built to grow.
+100%
Launch video outperformed the combined field by triple digits across every platform.
The next phase is winning the fight for commitment. 65% of Wisconsin Democrats are still undecided in the most recent Marquette wave. The voters are listening. We need to be everywhere they are.
VoteShift × Hong for Governor03 / Why This Race
Scope of Work

FIVE TRACKS.
ONE SHOP.

Every discipline the campaign needs through the August 11 primary, run by one team under one roof — strategy, scripting, production, social, and buying.
01

ORGANIC SOCIAL & CREATOR CONTENT

  • Weekly content calendars
  • Short-form vertical video
  • Validator & creator coordination
  • Live event capture
  • Daily monitoring + engagement
02

VIDEO & GRAPHICS PRODUCTION

  • TV in :30 / :15 (Extreme Reach)
  • Radio :60 / :30 / :15
  • CTV / OTT vert + horizontal
  • Motion graphics + post
  • In-district field production
03

PAID MEDIA BUYING

  • Broadcast + cable, six DMAs
  • CTV / OTT via Dem-only DSPs
  • Programmatic, Google, YouTube
  • Meta with dayparting
  • 10% commission · flat
04

STRATEGIC COUNSEL & COMMS

  • Daily message strategy
  • Earned media + reporter ops
  • Debate prep + surrogate training
  • Endorsement strategy
  • Rapid response inside the cycle
05

DIRECT-TO-DONATE GROWTH

  • Self-funding the retainer
  • Meta + Google + search
  • Acquisition + recurring
  • Verified ROAS benchmarks
  • Weekly performance review
VoteShift × Hong for Governor04 / Scope
Track 01 · Organic & Creators

CREATORS
ARE THE NEW
FIELD PROGRAM.

Fran's launch tripled the field's reach because Wisconsinites — not consultants — carried it. We protect that edge, scale it, and convert it into primary votes with a deliberate creator marketing program built around real Wisconsin voices.
25–40
Wisconsin creators in our targeted outreach universe — food, labor, parenting, rural, AAPI, college
3–5/wk
Creator-built pieces shipped weekly — paid partnerships, sit-downs, & whitelisted ads
6 lanes
Persona universes mapped to undecided primary voters — concentrated outside Madison
In-house
Ryan Solsten directs creator relations from Madison — same-day briefs, on-site shoots
FOOD & HOSPITALITY LABOR + UNION PARENTING RURAL WI AAPI VOICES UW MADISON / UWM SMALL BIZ CLIMATE / OUTDOORS
Sample creator content slate
@madisonkitchencoFOOD · 84K
A DAY IN THE LIFE WITH FRAN BEHIND THE LINE
♥ 142K↻ 9.8K
@northwoods_danRURAL · 51K
WHY THIS DAIRY FARMER IS VOTING HONG
♥ 64K↻ 4.1K
@uwlocal3220LABOR · 28K
FRAN HONG ON THE PICKET LINE — UNCUT
♥ 38K↻ 2.6K
@momsacrossWIPARENTS · 112K
CHILDCARE COSTS IN WI — A REAL CONVO
♥ 96K↻ 7.2K
VoteShift × Hong for Governor05 / Creators
Track 02 · Production

SCRIPT TO AIR
IN 48 HOURS.

We own the studio, the edit suites, and the trafficking relationships. The ad you approve on Tuesday is on stations Thursday.
01
SCRIPT
Same-day drafts. Daniel + Myles + Ryan in Madison.
02
SHOOT
In-district production. Madison, Milwaukee, La Crosse, rural WI.
03
CUT
In-house edit, color, sound — every length and aspect ratio.
04
TRAFFIC
Extreme Reach + Yangaroo. ISCI coded. Station-spec encoded.
05
AIR
12-hour rapid-response shipping when the moment demands.
BROADCAST TV
:30 / :15 · ProRes + H.264 · ISCI
RADIO
:60 / :30 / :15 · Yangaroo + SpotTaxi
CTV / OTT
Vertical · square · horizontal cuts
DIGITAL + META
Pre-roll, Reels, Stories, in-feed
VoteShift × Hong for Governor06 / Production
Track 03 · Paid Media

SIX DMAs.
ONE PLAYBOOK.

TV, cable, radio, CTV, OTT, programmatic, YouTube, Google, and Meta — purchased in-house. No middlemen, no markups.
Wisconsin DMAs in scope
033
Milwaukee
Persuasion · Turnout
081
Madison
Base · Earned
070
Green Bay
Persuasion
124
La Crosse · Eau Claire
Expansion
134
Wausau · Rhinelander
Expansion
137
Duluth · Superior
Reach
Channels we run, in-house
BROADCAST TV
CABLE
CTV / OTT
PROGRAMMATIC
RADIO
YOUTUBE
GOOGLE SEARCH
META
10% buying commission, flat. On a $1M buy, that's $30–100K back into the air rather than a middleman's pocket.
VoteShift × Hong for Governor07 / Paid Media
Tracks 04 + 05

COUNSEL + CASH
SELF-FUNDING.

Track 05

DIRECT-TO-DONATE.
SELF-FUNDING.

7,000+ contributions through Q4. 89% of online gifts under $100. The list is real. The ask just needs the right format.

$50
Average gift today
75%
In-state donor base
VoteShift × Hong for Governor08 / Counsel + DTD
Your Team

FOUR LEADS.
ONE OF THEM
LIVES IN MADISON.

Ryan Solsten, our Communications & Social Media Manager, is on the ground in Madison full-time for the duration of the engagement. Same-day comms, in-person production, direct line to the volunteer org.
Lead · Strategy & Client
Daniel Deriso
President & Founder. Communications, media buying, digital strategy across presidential, congressional, mayoral, and state campaigns. Day-to-day contact through August 11.
Birmingham
Lead · Paid Media
Griff Gray
Managing Director & Founding Partner. Media strategy, production oversight, buying ops. Field, data, and campaign management background.
Richmond
Lead · Creative
Myles Cain
Content Director & Founding Partner. Creative direction, video, visual identity. Reed Award-recognized creative work.
Birmingham
In-District · Comms
Ryan Solsten
Communications & Social Media Manager. Comms strategy, social production, rapid response, scripting, research. Same-day support from inside the candidate's orbit.
Madison · On the ground
Editor
Daniel Roth
Video & Content Producer. Primary editor for TV, CTV, OTT, and digital cuts.
Birmingham
Motion Graphics
Rachel Hendrix
Motion graphics and animation across TV, OTT, and digital. Title cards, lower thirds, animated explainers.
Birmingham
Field Production
Claire Brickson
Senior Communications & Field Producer. In-district shoots and production logistics.
Birmingham
Digital Fundraising
Adaylin Alvarez
Digital Fundraising & Content Associate. Bilingual. Direct-to-donate creative + Spanish-language acquisition.
Brooklyn
Operations
Celina Medina
Operations Director. Vendor coordination, production logistics, billing reconciliation.
Los Angeles
VoteShift × Hong for Governor09 / Team
How We Build the Campaign

THE VOTESHIFT
DIFFERENCE.

One ecosystem with different surfaces. Targeting, creative, placement, and optimization flow through a single team and a single strategy.
$0

NO PRODUCTION FEES INSIDE THE RETAINER

Most firms charge $10–15K per spot on top of any retainer. We include all video, graphics, editing, motion, and post inside the monthly. Talent + stock pass through at cost.

10%

FLAT BUYING COMMISSION

Industry standard is 13–20%. We charge 10%, flat. On a $1M buy, that's $30–100K the campaign keeps in the air rather than sending to a middleman.

48h

SCRIPT TO AIR IN TWO DAYS

We own the studio, edit suites, and trafficking pipes. Standard turnaround is 48 hours on broadcast, 24 on radio. Twelve hours when the moment requires it.

1

ONE TEAM, ONE ROOF

Strategy, scripting, production, motion, social, and buying live under one roof. No vendor coordination. No duplicated spend. No lag from idea to air.

VoteShift × Hong for Governor10 / Difference
Compensation

A RETAINER
THAT FUNDS ITSELF.

The proposed retainer is structured to be raised directly through direct-to-donate advertising managed inside the engagement. ROAS verified weekly.
ItemCost
Monthly retainer $8,000 / month
Production (video, graphics, motion, post)Included
Strategy, scripting, social, comms, DTDIncluded
Buying commission · all paid channels10% of media spend
Travel, talent, stock, captioningAt cost · no markup
TermThrough Aug 11 · contract TBD post-primary depending on win
VoteShift × Hong for Governor11 / Compensation
Relevant Work

CANDIDATES
WHO LOOK
LIKE FRAN.

We concentrate where Democrats have to win on margins, against opponents with more money, by communicating authentically with voters tired of being talked at.
Birmingham, AL
Mayor Randall Woodfin
Multi-cycle general consultant + media
Daniel returned home in 2017 to manage Woodfin's upset primary against an entrenched incumbent. Built on door-to-door, small-dollar, and a candidate whose biography was the case.
Re-elected · 2021 + 2025
Shelby County, TN
Mickell Lowery
General consultant + media
2026 crowded-field Shelby County mayoral primary. Same scope of services we're proposing here — closing ad sequence and ground-game messaging consolidated a fractured Democratic electorate.
Won the primary · May 5, 2026
TX-18 · Houston
Rep. Christian Menefee
Full media production + buying
Competitive Houston congressional primary. Viral social, fundraising-engineered video, and original legislative concept work that drove earned media against established names.
Direct primary analog
Wisconsin · Statewide
Leaders Igniting Transformation
Multi-channel digital + DOOH voter registration
2024 youth registration program targeting young voters of color (18–35) and UW college towns. Programmatic video, social, audio + TouchTunes jukebox DOOH with QR codes inside campus bars. 21M impressions, 29,773 registrations, 2025 Reed Award.
Wisconsin turnout
GA-07 · Atlanta
Everton Blair for Congress
Full media production + buying
Black, first-time congressional candidate running on education in a competitive metro Atlanta primary. Diverse, fast-changing district. Local-to-national message bridge.
Active · May primary
Industrial Midwest
United Auto Workers
National media buying
Multi-state IE buying for Democratic candidates in MI, PA, Wisconsin, OH and beyond. Working-class economic messaging at scale.
Working-class scale
VoteShift × Hong for Governor12 / Track Record
Closing

WE WOULD
BE PROUD
TO DO THIS WORK.

Fran is leading this primary with a $135K cash position and a field of opponents who together hold more than $2.7M. That is not a coincidence. That is what happens when a candidate, a message, and a model are aligned.

VoteShift will extend that alignment into the kind of paid communications operation that turns three Marquette polls into a primary win — in-house, on time, on budget.

Daniel Deriso
President & Founder · Birmingham, AL
Office
5500 11th Ct South · Birmingham, AL 35222