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

During episode 290, co-hosts BL Ochman & David Erickson discuss:

• Elon Musk’s shattered Tesla Cybertruck product launch
• Google’s permanent Loon balloons
• The new pinball search behavior
• Huggable holograms
• Thousands of downloadable art books
• Personality profiles of American regions
• A return to organic influencers, otherwise known as media relations
• Wall Street Journal’s Google hit job
• Imagined technical dystopias

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

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During episode 289, co-hosts BL Ochman & David Erickson discuss:

• The top 10 marketing apps of 2019
• Twitter asking for votes on its new deep fakes policy
• Adobe's AI-powered innovations
• Lin-Manuel Miranda teaming up with Google to digitize Puerto Rican art
• Twitter's restrictions on advocacy advertising
• TikTok trying to poach Facebook advertisers
• Smart speaker sales stats
• Niantic mapping the world

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

• Show Notes & Links: http://beyondsocialmediashow.com/289
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During episode 288, co-hosts BL Ochman & David Erickson discuss:

• A new movie casting James Dean, 64 years after his death
• Monica Lewinsky’s brilliant anti-bullying PSA and Twitter bot
• How Black Twitter made Popeye’s chicken sandwich go viral
• Arm & Hammer helps cats
• VR teaching empathy in the office
• Twitter adding Topics option
• The top 10 brands fooled by Instagram bots
• A New approach suggested for digital political ads
• Robots who are anything but cute
• @ElBloombito returns to Twitter

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

• Show Notes & Links: http://beyondsocialmediashow.com/288
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During episode 287, co-hosts BL Ochman & David Erickson discuss:

• The controversy over social media political ads and two of the proposed solutions
• The Climate Trail video game that takes place in the climate change apocalypse
• Samsung's selfie satellite fail
• Yahoo Groups' move to email-only
• Unrest on the Facebook campus
• The trend toward video games as spectator sport epitomized with the launch of the Minnesota Vikings' eSports team
• 🌭 Hot dog boy gets a ride in Oscar Mayer's weinermobile
• McDonald's social media fail
• Amazon's Choice paid reviews
• Joe Biden's domain fiasco
• Political Twitter

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

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During episode 286, co-hosts BL Ochman & David Erickson discuss:

• The six most horrific marketing stories of the year:
  • Chase Bank Poor Shaming
  • The North Deface
  • Instagram Influencers Newsjack California Wildfire Fire Hashtags
  • Samsung Folds
  • Jimmy Iced Coffee Sex Ad
  • Nike Blows Out Its Reputation With A Blown Out Shoe
• Senator Mitt Romney's Twitter persona, Pierre Delecto
• The creepy and compelling Skin-On interface
• Google's olfactory artificial intelligence algorithm
• Washington Post's Arc CMS becomes a subscription service
• Amazon launching a news app
• Google testing lead-generation form ads

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

• Show Notes & Links: http://beyondsocialmediashow.com/286
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During episode 285, co-hosts BL Ochman & David Erickson discuss:

• A surprise new release from Prince's vault
• Hologram concert tours from Buddy Holly, Roy Orbison, Ronnie James Dio, Maria Callas, Frank Zappa, Whitney Houston, and potentially Amy Winehouse and Prince himself
• Annie Leibovitz' Pixel 4 promo
• The evolution of job descriptions
• Facebook's new oversight committee
• LinkedIn launches Events
• AMC Theaters streaming (sort of)
• Free education from Udacity and Microsoft
• Amazon Pay-to-Play Top Toy List
• The "Alpha" generation
• Nancy Pelosi trolls Trump
• Elizabeth Warren owns Mark Zuckerberg

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

• Show Notes & Links: http://beyondsocialmediashow.com/285
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During episode 284, co-hosts BL Ochman & David Erickson discuss:

• American companies that cave to Chinese censorship
• A Sesame Street character who addresses addiction
• Target's emphasis on audio branding
• Siri comes to Spotify
• An adorable MSNBC interruption
• An augmented reality opera marketing campaign
• Glenlivet's whiskey pods
• Amazon's initiative to get voice assistants to work together
• Top sites that fact check fake news
• Malicious apps in Google Play
• Google's crowdsourced shopping ads
• Chrome will soon block mixed content

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

• Show Notes & Links: http://beyondsocialmediashow.com/284
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During episode 283, co-hosts BL Ochman & David Erickson discuss:

• Artificial skin for virtual reality
• Google Arts & Culture's VR Versailles
• Pew research data showing worries about social media's impact on news
• What happens if you go to Instagram jail
• Google testing desktop sidebar search
• Staples' WorkLife Magazine
• Tide's #LaundryNight debates
• Twitter's DM search
• The leaked Zuckerberg tapes
• A net neutrality appeal decision
• LinkedIn's enhanced ad targeting
• A picture that speaks much louder than words

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

• Show Notes & Links: http://beyondsocialmediashow.com/283
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During episode 282, co-hosts BL Ochman & David Erickson discuss:

• A satirical view of Greta Derangement Syndrome
• 15 new Amazon hardware products, including Echo Buds
• Twitter's #hashtag tips for brands
• A new Twitter feature that lets you swipe lists
• Sandy Hook Promise's powerful school shooting PSA
• McDonald's voice-activated job applications
• The Food Network and Amazon stream cooking classes
• Facebook moves closer to your brain
• 'Likes' and video views go away in Facebook experiment
• Influencers, influencers everywhere!

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

• Show Notes & Links: http://beyondsocialmediashow.com/282
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During episode 281, co-hosts BL Ochman & David Erickson discuss:

• The creativity of the world’s largest display of LEGO art in New York City
• LEGO's new Rebuild The World campaign
• The five hundred new words that were added to the dictionary
• Google's new in this video search results
• John Batelle's new Daily Recount summary of the day's political news
• The city of Grand Rapids, Minnesota's 3D crosswalks
• Descript podcasting software that lets you deep fake yourself
• Fears of Chinese propaganda via TikTok
• The pros and cons of Echo Auto
• Facebook Watch TV watching you
• Creating a digital will
• Political contributions via Amazon Echo
• Facebook's app problem

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

• Show Notes & Links: http://beyondsocialmediashow.com/281
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