“Rent a Crowd” Company Admits Politicians Are Using Their Service

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“Rent a Crowd” Company Admits Politicians Are Using Their Service

Did you listen to Jeb Bush make his announcement yesterday? Did you hear loud cheers from a crowd that seemed excited at the prospect that there could be another Bush as President? Was I the only one confused? I don’t know one person who doesn’t threaten to leave the Country if it’s Bush vs Clinton for President again. Can’t imagine folks actually excited and cheering for Jeb.

It got me wondering, would someone like Jeb, or another candidate that’s been struggling like he has, hire a crowd? Pay people to attend their rallies to make them seem like their gaining in popularity? We have seen Hillary Clinton stage appearances, knowing ahead of time the people she’d interact with. Would a staged rally be out of the question for a struggling GOP candidate? According to “Crowds On Demand”, not at all.

Crowds on Demand is an American publicity firm. It claims to be the only “rent a crowd” service, providing its clients with the ability to hire actors to pose as fans. I decided to contact them, pretending to be an employee of a GOP candidate running for office. Their Founder/CEO, Adam Swart, responded. Here is our exchange…

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If anybody would need that service that's a "serious" candidate for prez it would be Bush. He literally has no support from the base.
 
Remember in 2012 when Doug Wead said we should learn Search Engine Optimization? Well I took the basis of knowledge that I had and have been expanding on it since then. I now have my own company where I provide services to businesses. I mention it because these stories can be affected by how we treat them online.

If Brian would make the links to articles like these drop the "no follow" tag, the website on the otherside would get a boost.

Only the articles we don't want to help should get the no follow tag.

Not only that, if we click through and read the article on their site, that will help them too.

Only click through to positive articles and spend time on their sites. If you do click through to a lame article, leave it quickly to increase their Bounce Rate.

+rep to the OP for this!
 
What's a crowd going for these days? Does that crowd rental company happen to rent band wagons too?
 
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Me: what reassurances do you offer that the crowd does not leak the fact that they were paid to arrive?

Adam Swart: We have all crowd members sign binding non-disclosure agreements. Our crowd members work for us on a regular basis and understand we value discretion given the sensitive nature of the business.
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I wonder what the NDA has in it and what provisions there are for leaks.
I think it would be hilarious fun to get an activists to pose a an actor, find out where the gigs are, and flood them with people who have something else to yell.
 
What was interesting about the Jeb! announcement was how young the crowd was.

I thought - well, hey it is at a college afterall, and it's Florida afterall... but.... they didn't look college student young, they looked young professional young. I was pretty skeptical of the whole thing as well.
 
John Ellis spinning around and bowing to random people in the crowd looked suspicious as well. It seems his campaign manager, the quiche guy - Mike Murphy - is almost as good as Jessie. Not a shred of authenticity. Are they all made from the same cloth ?
 
Maybe the actors put "Crowds on Demand" on their Linkedin profiles? Then we could look for familiar faces? They list their company as
only having 1-10 employees so they must pay per gig for the masses. https://www.linkedin.com/company/crowds-on-demand

We use top notch professional talent with significant acting experience for our crowds. We believe that “the customer is always right” and as such run Crowds on Demand as a service centered business. If you think you would be a good fit for our team, email us at [email protected] or fill in the form below. With over 500 actors across the nation, you’ll be joining a world-class team!
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If you’ve ever wanted to get paid $15/hour to rage against the machine (or for the machine, depending on the client), here’s your chance. Los Angeles-based Crowds on Demand is now offering fake supporters for social causes that have little support, but ample cash flow.

Vice Magazine recently caught up to Crowds on Demand’s CEO Adam Swart to inquire about his new business. Crowds on Demand primarily serves two functions: to inflate the egos of up and coming celebrities who want to be spotted with an entourage, and providing fake supporters to non-profits who are too incompetent to organize their own crowds.

So, how much does it cost to hire enough protesters to incite full scale revolution? Rates, Swart tells Vice, usually start in the low thousands. But he gives discounts for “good causes,” because, as their website notes “Crowds on Demand is committed to giving back to the communities that we serve.” http://www.critical-theory.com/were-all-doomed-you-can-now-hire-fake-protesters/
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Crowds on Demand is searching for passionate interns who want to make a difference for under-served communities in Seattle. Our company has been contracted to sign people up for federal government assistance programs. A typical day working with us could mean a morning briefing with the executive team followed by office work coordinating with charities followed by work in the field. This isn’t your average internship. You get an insight into the way that social services programs work, learn about outreach and most importantly your work will make an impact in the community.

Our internship is a 10-week program. You will be given a stipend upon completion of the program. Top performing interns are also given preferential consideration for full-time positions. http://www.internships.com/non-profit/Community-Service-Internship-I1670557
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Cleaner44 said:
Remember in 2012 when Doug Wead said we should learn Search Engine Optimization? Well I took the basis of knowledge that I had and have been expanding on it since then. I now have my own company where I provide services to businesses. I mention it because these stories can be affected by how we treat them online.

If Brian would make the links to articles like these drop the "no follow" tag, the website on the otherside would get a boost.

Only the articles we don't want to help should get the no follow tag.

Not only that, if we click through and read the article on their site, that will help them too.

Only click through to positive articles and spend time on their sites. If you do click through to a lame article, leave it quickly to increase their Bounce Rate.
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Hm. There is something evil about this.
 
Cleaner44 said:
Remember in 2012 when Doug Wead said we should learn Search Engine Optimization? Well I took the basis of knowledge that I had and have been expanding on it since then. I now have my own company where I provide services to businesses. I mention it because these stories can be affected by how we treat them online.

If Brian would make the links to articles like these drop the "no follow" tag, the website on the otherside would get a boost.

Only the articles we don't want to help should get the no follow tag.

Not only that, if we click through and read the article on their site, that will help them too.

Only click through to positive articles and spend time on their sites. If you do click through to a lame article, leave it quickly to increase their Bounce Rate.

+rep to the OP for this!
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nofollow is not as big a deal as it was 5 years ago. Even then, it was possible to drop a bunch of nofollows on the same site and get ranked within a day or 2 just on the strength of the referer domain and the anchor text. On RPFs, internal links are do follow; I am aware of at least 1 member here who has been able to leverage that for purposes unknown. Nonetheless, if RPFs had a easier way to generate do follow links, it would take a few months for it to attract a whole new userbase of link sellers, the kind that make more work for moderators and admins.
 
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