Beyond Social Media: The Marketing, Advertising & Public Relations Podcast

During episode 297, co-hosts BL Ochman & David Erickson discuss:

  • Burger King's disgusting moldy Whopper campaign
  • Podcast studios coming to Staples
  • An FTC crackdown on influencers
  • Lifetouch's clever "About Us" branding
  • Alexa smart speaker spying
  • eSports home teams
  • Redbox Live streaming service
  • An ode to Wikipedia
  • Coronavirus riots in Ukraine

Plus great new apps and important stats and a lot of stuff in between.

Direct download: Beyond-Social-Media-Show-Burger-King-Moldy-Whopper-Episode-297.mp3
Category:Social Media -- posted at: 9:37pm CDT

During episode 296, co-hosts BL Ochman & David Erickson discuss:

  • Amazon's program to create actual brand voices to play on its Echo smart speaker
  • Google's Project Witness that uses virtual reality to generate empathy for jailed children
  • ASCII art of refugee programmers
  • Tech titans' efforts to combat coronavirus misinformation
  • Augmented reality Google Maps
  • Facebook's bug bounty program
  • Chrome's website security deadline
  • Reviews in Google Search Console
  • A glaring user experience fail in Adobe Acrobat
  • Target's Minnesota Badgers miscue

Plus great new apps and important stats and a lot of stuff in between.

Direct download: Beyond-Social-Media-Show-Alexa-Brand-Voices-Episode-296.mp3
Category:Social Media -- posted at: 9:20pm CDT

During episode 295, co-hosts BL Ochman & David Erickson discuss:

  • The San Antonio Zoo's "Cry Me A Cockroach" vindictive Valentines promotion
  • Social media-savvy Astronaut Christina returns to Earth
  • Seventh Generation's brilliant State of the Union commercial
  • Spotify's podcast expansion
  • Flirting with Tinder bots
  • Netflix' Oscars push
  • Twitter squashes student's parody, then apologizes
  • Planters Baby Nut banned
  • Best and worst Super Bowl LIV ads
  • The Iowa Caucus debacle
  • Hacking Google Maps
  • The world's worst job ad and world's funniest resume
  • Clearview AI slapped with cease-and-decists
  • Celebrity Cruises' acid trip commercial
  • 2020 election disinformation wars
  • Edelman's Global Trust Barometer

Plus great new apps and important stats and a lot of stuff in between.

Direct download: Beyond-Social-Media-Show-Vindictive-Valentines-Episode-295.mp3
Category:Social Media -- posted at: 8:17pm CDT

During episode 294, co-hosts BL Ochman & David Erickson discuss:

  • Kraft crowdsourcing its Super Bowl commercial
  • Pantone's Super Bowl color commentary
  • Micheal Bloomberg's Dog People Get Me ad
  • The 2020 new emoji lineup
  • Free art downloads
  • David Berkowitz' marketing English
  • Scroll funding journalism via subscriptions
  • Facebook stalking
  • Illegal social media in China
  • Clearview AI's racist ties
  • Hyper-sensitive Super Bowl ads

Plus great new apps and important stats and a lot of stuff in between.

Direct download: Beyond-Social-Media-Show-Super-Bowl-LIV-Marketing-Episode-294.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 10:09pm CDT

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