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

During episode 309, co-hosts BL Ochman & David Erickson discuss a leak of details for Apple's reported upcoming augmented reality glasses, as well as:

  • DEVO's face shield PPE
  • A literal happy hour courtesy of the Finns
  • The bookcases of the cloistered and famous
  • A Twitter parasite
  • Playboy's sexy safe six PSA
  • Feedly's Leo AI
  • Instagram guides
  • Facebook's new eCommerce bid
  • Exclusive Twitter threads
  • The future of conferences
  • How the debunked viral Plandemic conspiracy spread

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

Direct download: Beyond-Social-Media-Show-Apple-Glass-Leaks-Episode-309.mp3
Category:Social Media -- posted at: 3:08pm CDT

During episode 308, co-hosts BL Ochman & David Erickson discuss reauthorization of the Patriot Act, which gives law enforcement access to online browsing data without need for a warrant, as well as:

  • IKEA's furniture fort plans
  • Twitter's new policy of labeling COVID-19 tweets
  • Bud Light bringing back the Real Genius campaign
  • Augmented reality contact lenses
  • The future of restaurants
  • Brightcove's new streaming service, Play TV
  • Free virtual reality collaboration
  • The negative effects of bad news
  • The Ants of Facebook
  • The day Google Play Music died
  • The State of Social Media Marketing report

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


During episode 307, co-hosts BL Ochman & David Erickson discuss new and potential future features coming to Twitter, as well as:

  • Twitter's new moderation tool
  • Potential new Twitter business profiles
  • Google's podcast analytics
  • Google's Web Vitals metrics
  • Facebook's oversight board
  • Ryan Reynold's Mint Mobile commercial
  • Wendy's online scavenger hunt
  • Progressive Insurance works from home
  • Amazon's new show, Upload
  • Augmented reality that copy and pastes from real life
  • Google Lens' new copy to desktop feature
  • Jimmy Kimmel's screw up
  • 28,000 GoDaddy hosting accounts compromised
  • Axl Rose owns Steve Mnuchin
  • YouTube Engagement Benchmarks

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

Direct download: Beyond-Social-Media-Show-New-Twitter-Tools-Episode-307.mp3
Category:Social Media -- posted at: 11:11am CDT

During episode 306, co-hosts BL Ochman & David Erickson discuss the effect COVID-19 has had on the Influencer economy, as well as:

  • The leaders weighing in on #PressFreedomDay
  • How the NFL conducted its first-ever virtual draft
  • New York City's Stay The F*ck Home festival
  • Budweiser's coronavirus-inspired sequel to the notorious Whassup Super Bowl commercial
  • The Verification Handbook is now free for all
  • Apple TV+'s new docuseries Home
  • Billboards saluting doctors
  • Successful email signature signoffs
  • Meet Google Meet, now available to everyone
  • What honest Zoom meetings would look like
  • Unemployed special effects
  • Frankestein Live
  • The coming voice tech explosion
  • The definition of small- and medium-sized businesses
  • The coming burn-in catastrophe
  • Daytime streaming statistics

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

Direct download: Beyond-Social-Media-Show-The-Great-Unfluencing-Episode-306.mp3
Category:Social Media -- posted at: 6:04pm CDT

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