During episode 321, co-hosts BL Ochman & David Erickson discuss Walmart joining Microsoft's bid to acquire TikTok, as well as:

• American Family Insurance's Gen X-targeted commercial
• The Humanity Lab's anti-racism efforts
• KFC is finger lickin' good no more
• Instagram infographics
• Spotify virtual events
• COVID 19 gag rules
• A fond farewell to Izzy's Ice Cream
• PPE vending machines

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

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During episode 320, co-hosts BL Ochman & David Erickson discuss Epic Games' Fortnite vs Apple Battle Royale, as well as:

• Taco Bell's Mobile Go restaurants
• Brayden Harrington’s bravest little speech
• Instagram's Suggested Posts
• Sarah Cooper’s really great week
• Spotify books
• The resignation of Facebook's CMO
• Susan B. Anthony slaps back at a Trump pardon
• Trump wants to block Twitter critics again
• Facebook's Holocaust deniers
• Banned Subreddits relocate

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

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During episode 319, co-hosts BL Ochman & David Erickson discuss TikTok's clandestine surveillance of its users, as well as:

• Precisely targeted direct mail
• Warm and cuddly artificially intelligent pet robots
• Twitter’s new Reply Guy feature
• The power of video recommendations
• LinkedIn Sells SlideShare to Scribd
• Planter’s Baby Nut grows up
• Apple redirects search users to its Apple News+ app

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

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During episode 318, co-hosts BL Ochman & David Erickson discuss 🍿 Walmart's plan to turn their parking lots into a drive-in movie theater, as well as:

• Giving credit to creators
• Why Microsoft wants TikTok
• The pros and cons of WordPress' auto-updates
• Roger Federer's rooftop tennis appearance
• Google's messy take on the customer journey
• Advertising agencies disclosing diversity data
• Google News providing 'for context' links
• Zoombombers hack the Twitter hacking trial
• Brands mistranslation misadventure
• Trump's 'clean' Internet
• B2B salesperson traits

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

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During episode 317, co-hosts BL Ochman & David Erickson discuss the potential acquisition of TikTok by Microsoft, as well as:

• Deadspinners split to Defector Media
• Nike's amazing You Can't Stop Us ad
• Denying Holocaust deniers
• Country Time's little bailout fund
• Virtual influencers' time may have come
• The whole Stella Immanuel strangeness
• The Walmart Nazis
• the Consumer Electronics Show goes virtual until 2022
• The Harper's Letter decrying cancel culture

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

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