Digital Influence
Practice

Where Policy Expertise Meets Digital Execution

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Most communications and digital partners are reactive and tactical, responding to the moment, operating in silos, and measuring little after the fact. Touchdown is built to be proactive and strategic, moving clients from short-term noise to long-term influence.

Touchdown is a public affairs firm that operates across government affairs, public policy, issues management, corporate communications, and marketing, with digital running through every one of them rather than sitting off to the side as its own department. Digital isn’t a gadget play. It’s what makes every practice area work harder.

Strategic Deliverables That Drive Decisions

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The Touchdown difference. Every capability. Fully connected. Measurably amplified.

Connective Tissue

Connective Tissue

Digital links every capability into a coherent system. Intelligence informs narrative, narrative drives content, content feeds amplification, and measurement loops back to strategy. Nothing operates in a silo.

Built In Not Bolted On

Built In, Not Bolted On

Most firms treat digital as an add-on. At Touchdown, it's integrated throughout every engagement, embedded in how we think, plan, execute, and measure from the first conversation.

Force Multiplier

Force Multiplier

Every earned media hit, every coalition activation, every grassroots moment reaches further with digital behind it. Digital doesn't just add to what Touchdown does, it multiplies it.

Corporate Communications

Public Affairs GEO, Not Commercial GEO

Most GEO work is built for product visibility: getting a brand named when a consumer asks an AI engine for a recommendation. Ours is built for issue-narrative authority: getting your policy position cited when policymakers, journalists, and coalition partners ask an AI engine about the issue you're working. Same underlying mechanics, a different target and a different playbook.

THE FIELD METHODOLOGY

Our Digital Influence Practice is built for the complexity of modern public affairs, where maximizing influence requires precision across every channel, every audience, and every moment. We pair seasoned human instinct with AI-fueled execution across every dimension of our work, from intelligence and narrative to content, advocacy, and measurement. It’s how our FIELD methodology moves faster, targets more precisely, and proves impact more clearly.

F — Find: Discovery & Intelligence

F — Find: Discovery & Intelligence

  • Digital & Channel Audit
  • Opposition & Competitive Mapping
  • Sentiment & Issue Landscape Tracking
  • Audience & Insight Identification
  • Share of Voice Analysis
  • Influencer & Validator Research
  • AI Citation & Prompt Landscape Audit (GEO)
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F — Find: Discovery & Intelligence

F — Find: Discovery & Intelligence

Before a single message goes out, we map the terrain. Who holds the power, what the opposition is saying, where sentiment lives, and how loud your voice is relative to the field.

Deliverable: Intelligence brief and baseline scorecard, the strategic foundation for every phase that follows.

Digital & Channel Audit

We audit your presence across paid, earned, shared, and owned channels to see where you’re already strong and where you’re exposed. The audit becomes the baseline every later phase measures against.

Opposition & Competitive Mapping

We map the narratives your opposition and competitors are pushing, and where they’re gaining ground. Knowing the terrain before you move is what keeps a campaign from getting outflanked.

Sentiment & Issue Landscape Tracking

We track sentiment and the broader issue landscape across the audiences that matter to your work, so we know where public opinion already sits before we spend a dollar trying to move it.

Audience & Insight Identification

We identify your target audiences and the insights that explain what actually moves them. Precise targeting is what makes every later phase efficient instead of a guess.

Share of Voice Analysis

We measure your share of voice against peers, opponents, and adjacent issues, the number that tells you whether you’re actually being heard, not just publishing.

Influencer & Validator Research

We research the influencers and third-party validators positioned to carry your message credibly. The right validator can reach an audience that will never listen to you directly.

AI Citation & Prompt Landscape Audit (GEO)

We benchmark your AI citation landscape across ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, and Google AI Overviews, so we know which visibility gate is failing before we prescribe a fix.

I — Inform: Strategy & Narrative

I — Inform: Strategy & Narrative

  • Core Narrative & Message Framework
  • Audience-Specific Messaging
  • Opposition Response Playbook
  • Channel & Timing Strategy
  • Proof Point & Evidence Mapping
  • Creative Platform & Tone Guidance
  • Entity & Schema Architecture (GEO)
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I — Inform: Strategy & Narrative

I — Inform: Strategy & Narrative

Intelligence becomes action. We translate findings into a clear strategic framework: the core narrative, audience-specific messaging, and the channel strategy that gives it maximum impact.

Deliverable: Strategic communications framework.

Core Narrative & Message Framework

We build the core narrative and message framework your campaign runs on. Every asset that follows, earned, owned, or paid, traces back to this.

Audience-Specific Messaging

We adapt that narrative into messaging tailored to each stakeholder segment. A message that lands with a regulator rarely lands the same way with a reporter or a coalition partner.

Opposition Response Playbook

We build a response playbook so your team is ready before the opposition moves, not scrambling after. Speed in the first hours of a story often matters as much as the substance of the response.

Channel & Timing Strategy

We sequence which channels carry the message, and when. The right message in the wrong order can undercut itself before it lands.

Proof Point & Evidence Mapping

We map the proof points and evidence that make the narrative credible. Claims without evidence get ignored by press, policymakers, and AI engines alike.

Creative Platform & Tone Guidance

We set the creative platform and tone guidance that keeps every asset consistent, so a campaign reads as one voice instead of several.

Entity & Schema Architecture (GEO)

We restructure priority content for AI extraction and establish entity presence on Wikidata and third-party directories, so models can identify who you are before they can cite you.

E — Execute: Content & Channel Management

E — Execute: Content & Channel Management

  • Owned Channel Management
  • SEO & AI Discoverability
  • Multichannel Campaign Execution
  • Paid Creative Production
  • A/B Testing & Creative Variation
  • Crisis & Rapid Response
  • Schema Deployment (GEO)
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E — Execute: Content & Channel Management

E — Execute: Content & Channel Management

Strategy becomes digital experiences. We produce and publish the assets that carry your narrative, managing owned channels with discipline, optimizing for discoverability, and crafting paid creative that powers amplification.

Deliverable: Live content operation and paid creative.

Owned Channel Management

We manage your owned channels and produce the content that runs on them, on a cadence, not in bursts. Owned channels are the one surface you fully control.

SEO & AI Discoverability

We build the SEO strategy that keeps you visible in search and cited in AI-generated answers. Being findable by a search engine and being cited by an AI engine are increasingly two different jobs, and we run both.

Multichannel Campaign Execution

We execute the campaign across every channel in the plan, not just the easy ones. A strategy that only runs where it’s convenient isn’t a strategy.

Paid Creative Production

We produce the paid creative that powers amplification, built for the channels it will actually run on rather than stretched across all of them.

A/B Testing & Creative Variation

We test creative variations and let the data decide what runs at scale. Instinct picks the first draft; testing picks the winner.

Crisis & Rapid Response

We stand ready with crisis communications and rapid response when something breaks. A 48-hour response window is built into how we staff every engagement.

Schema Deployment (GEO)

We deploy FAQPage, Organization, and Service schema and fix indexability gaps, so AI crawlers can actually reach the content, not just readers.

L — Lift: Advocacy & Amplification

L — Lift: Advocacy & Amplification

  • Programmatic & Social Advertising
  • Influencer & Creator Partnerships
  • Native Content & Publisher Partnerships
  • Coalition & Validator Activation
  • Grassroots & Grasstops Mobilization
  • Legislative & Stakeholder Outreach
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L — Lift: Advocacy & Amplification

L — Lift: Advocacy & Amplification

We deploy the full spectrum of amplification, surrounding your audience from every direction.

Deliverable: Active advocacy network and paid amplification.

Programmatic & Social Advertising

We run programmatic and social media advertising to extend reach beyond earned coverage. Paid is what guarantees an audience sees the message instead of hoping they find it.

Influencer & Creator Partnerships

We activate paid influencer and creator partnerships to reach audiences earned media can’t. These are voices your audience already trusts more than a press release.

Native Content & Publisher Partnerships

We place native content through publisher partnerships that lend it credibility earned coverage alone can’t buy, without pretending it’s something it isn’t.

Coalition & Validator Activation

We build coalitions and activate third-party validators who can say what you can’t say yourself. Credibility borrowed from the right validator often moves further than anything said in-house.

Grassroots & Grasstops Mobilization

We mobilize grassroots and grasstops networks to put real voices behind the campaign. Policymakers respond differently to constituents than to a firm.

Legislative & Stakeholder Outreach

We run direct legislative and stakeholder outreach to the offices and decision-makers who matter. Amplification means little if it never reaches the room where the decision gets made.

D — Demonstrate: Measurement & Proof

D — Demonstrate: Measurement & Proof

  • Real-Time Monitoring & Optimization
  • Reach & Share of Voice Reporting
  • Decision-Maker Insight Reporting
  • Sentiment & Perception Tracking
  • Earned Media Analysis & Scoring
  • ROI & Cost-Per-Engagement Metrics
  • AI Share of Voice Tracking (GEO)
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D — Demonstrate: Measurement & Proof

D — Demonstrate: Measurement & Proof

Impact is only real if you can show it and act on it. We run a continuous monitor, evaluate, and optimize loop that translates campaign activity into performance evidence, keeps programs improving in real time, and builds the data-backed case for what comes next.

Deliverable: Impact report and data-backed optimization roadmap, proof of performance and a clear path forward.

Real-Time Monitoring & Optimization

We monitor, evaluate, and optimize the campaign in real time, not just at the end of the quarter. Waiting for the wrap report wastes budget that could have been redirected sooner.

Reach & Share of Voice Reporting

We report on reach, engagement, and share of voice against the baseline set in Find. Movement only means something measured against where you started.

Decision-Maker Insight Reporting

We surface how your target audiences and decision-makers actually responded, not just how many people saw something. Impressions are not the same as influence.

Sentiment & Perception Tracking

We track how sentiment and perception moved over the course of the campaign, the same baseline from Find, remeasured, so movement is provable, not asserted.

Earned Media Analysis & Scoring

We analyze and score earned media coverage for reach and impact, not just volume. Ten mediocre placements rarely outperform one placement in the right outlet.

ROI & Cost-Per-Engagement Metrics

We calculate ROI and cost-per-engagement so spend is justified in numbers, not impressions.

AI Share of Voice Tracking (GEO)

We remeasure AI Share of Voice and citation frequency at 30 days, tracked against the baseline set in Find. Citation patterns drift 40 to 60 percent monthly, so this isn’t a one-time check.

Digital Solutions

From the campaign trail to the boardroom, our approach adapts to the terrain. The discipline stays the same

Government Relations

Government Relations

Digital gives our government relations team real-time intelligence on the legislators and staff who matter, and the amplification to back up every meeting on the Hill.

Issue Management

Issue Management

Digital extends issue management with real-time monitoring and sentiment tracking, so a story gets a response before it defines the narrative, not after.

Corporate Communications

Corporate Communications

Digital extends corporate communications with the audience data, content production, and measurement that turn a reputation strategy into something provable.

Growth Marketing

Growth Marketing

Digital extends growth marketing with the paid media, SEO, and AI discoverability work that turns visibility into pipeline.

Strategic Partners

Frequently Asked Questions

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Most digital shops run in a lane, social, paid media, or content, without the political and policy fluency that determines whether a message actually lands with legislators, regulators, or the press. Touchdown builds digital into the same strategic process we use for government affairs and issues management, so your digital advocacy strategy and your policy strategy are never working from two different playbooks.

Alongside. We plug into your existing team and counsel, bringing the digital execution, audience
intelligence, and paid amplification that most in-house teams and traditional PR or GR firms aren’t built to run themselves.

It depends on where you start in the FIELD process. Some clients begin with a full Find-phase intelligence audit; others come in with a campaign already underway and need Execute and Lift support, content, paid media, and coalition activation. We scope the engagement to where you are, not a fixed package.

Our Lift phase includes a 48-hour rapid response capability, built specifically for votes, rulings, or breaking news that can’t wait for a normal planning cycle.

Every engagement starts with a baseline scorecard in the Find phase, covering share of voice, sentiment, and reach, so the Demonstrate phase can show real movement against that baseline rather than vanity metrics.

Both. The same digital infrastructure that runs a legislative campaign also runs corporate reputation, issues management, and marketing work. Digital is the connective layer across every practice area, not a separate service reserved for campaigns.

Talk to Our Digital Influence Practice Team

Ready to build a more precise, measurable influence campaign? Want to work together? Drop us a line and we'll be in touch.