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.
The Touchdown difference. Every capability. Fully connected. Measurably amplified.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
We build the core narrative and message framework your campaign runs on. Every asset that follows, earned, owned, or paid, traces back to this.
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.
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.
We sequence which channels carry the message, and when. The right message in the wrong order can undercut itself before it lands.
We map the proof points and evidence that make the narrative credible. Claims without evidence get ignored by press, policymakers, and AI engines alike.
We set the creative platform and tone guidance that keeps every asset consistent, so a campaign reads as one voice instead of several.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
We produce the paid creative that powers amplification, built for the channels it will actually run on rather than stretched across all of them.
We test creative variations and let the data decide what runs at scale. Instinct picks the first draft; testing picks the winner.
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.
We deploy FAQPage, Organization, and Service schema and fix indexability gaps, so AI crawlers can actually reach the content, not just readers.
We deploy the full spectrum of amplification, surrounding your audience from every direction.
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.
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.
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.
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.
We mobilize grassroots and grasstops networks to put real voices behind the campaign. Policymakers respond differently to constituents than to a firm.
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.
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.
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.
We report on reach, engagement, and share of voice against the baseline set in Find. Movement only means something measured against where you started.
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.
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.
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.
We calculate ROI and cost-per-engagement so spend is justified in numbers, not impressions.
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.
From the campaign trail to the boardroom, our approach adapts to the terrain. The discipline stays the same
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.
Digital extends issue management with real-time monitoring and sentiment tracking, so a story gets a response before it defines the narrative, not after.
Digital extends corporate communications with the audience data, content production, and measurement that turn a reputation strategy into something provable.
Digital extends growth marketing with the paid media, SEO, and AI discoverability work that turns visibility into pipeline.



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.