Digital and Advertising

The Herald Group develops targeted digital and advertising strategies that ensure your message reaches the right audiences. We’re driven by data, delivered across platforms, and reinforced through coordinated paid media.

Public affairs campaigns are shaped across digital channels, where policymakers, media, and stakeholders consume information and form opinions.

THE PROBLEM

Having the right content is no longer enough.

Having a compelling argument in an op-ed, website, or infographic doesn’t have the intended impact if the right people don’t see and remember it.  

The most consequential policy debates are no longer won on a single channel. Policymakers, journalists, and the staff, advisors, and networks around them are fragmented across social platforms, streaming, display, and digital media. Audiences are harder to reach consistently, and easier to lose to competing narratives.

Success requires more than placing an ad. It requires the platforms, targeting, and frequency to put your message in front of the right audience, again and again, until it sticks.

Digital campaigns are most effective when they don’t just reach audiences—they surround them

Todd Van Etten
Chief Digital Strategist and Partner at The Herald Group

WHAT WE DO

Innovative Strategies + Extensive Capabilities

The Herald Group deploys integrated digital programs—built to amplify advocacy campaigns, issue engagement, and reputation management at every stage.

Designed to Fit Your Needs

The most effective public affairs campaigns are not defined by a single channel or tactic.

They are driven by the ability to reach the right audiences, shape what they see, and reinforce that message over time.

Increase Credibility

By combining branded campaigns with third-party and unbranded promotion, we reinforce messages in ways that resonate and break through skepticism.

Shape the Information Environment

We ensure policymakers and stakeholders consistently encounter your narrative across the platforms that drive opinion and action.

Reach the Right Audiences

We target not just decision-makers, but the staff, media, and networks that influence their perspective.

Build Scale and Momentum

High-frequency, multi-channel campaigns make issues feel larger, more relevant, and harder to ignore.

Crisis-Facing Organizations

Companies that need fast, accurate intelligence on how a crisis is spreading, who is driving it, and where to respond first.

Activate at Critical Moments

We surge spending and channels at key policy and regulatory inflection points, then scale back to a sustained baseline once the moment passes.

Our Team

Meet the team behind THG’s digital and advertising practice—experienced professionals who combine deep public affairs expertise with the platforms, targeting, and media strategies that shape today’s information environment.

Todd Van Etten
Chief Digital Strategist

Todd leads THG’s digital practice, overseeing paid media, social programs, analytics, and creative direction to help corporations, trade associations, and coalitions translate digital engagement into real-world action.

Sharon Copeland
Vice President

Sharon specializes in building integrated digital campaigns that connect messaging, audience targeting, and execution.

Colin Hensel
Senior Director, Digital, AI Innovation and Analytics

A digital strategist and AI practitioner with experience spanning Capitol Hill, political campaigns, and advocacy, Colin leads The Herald Group's approach to AI innovation, online intelligence, and analytics.

Meet the Entire THG Team


Meet our entire team of political campaign mentalities, MBA acumen, and more.

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