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

During episode 280, co-hosts BL Ochman & David Erickson discuss:

• Amazon's crowdsourcing of responses to Alexa users' questions
• Google's Recover Together website of resources for addicts
• Twitter's new arrangeable photos feature
• Google's 'original reporting' algorithm designed to give more visibility to primary source, trustworthy journalism
• WordPress' purchase of Tumblr
• The Zooniverse crowdsourcing network supporting science experiments
• An example of a great follow-up PR pitch
• The Attorneys General investigating Google
• Ledo Pizza's ill-advised 9/11 tweet

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

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During episode 279, co-hosts BL Ochman & David Erickson discuss:

• Social media generated AlienStock Festival
• By All Means podcast sponsorship
• Google's podcast playback search results
• Moodvertising
• Google adds augmented reality to map directions
• Friends gets LEGOized
• Couch potato job openings
• Suing Pulitzer Prize winning journalists
• US Soccer Federation's PR crisis
• Facebook unpublishes pages
• Samsung's delete fest
• Facebook's face scamming

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

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During episode 278, co-hosts BL Ochman & David Erickson discuss:

• French's & Oscar Mayer's ice cream fight
• The Minnesota Vikings ambassador employee
• Pixel 4's gesture control
• The Oakland A's PR investment
• The global emoji culture
• The great automatic advertizator that may put marketers out of work
• What the top 100 Instagram influencers earn
• Facebook's fake 126 million
• The great Cambridge Analytica/Facebook election hack is now a Netflix must-watch video
• How you can get a Master's Degree in Cannabis Science
• The great Facebook re-naming

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

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During episode 277, co-hosts BL Ochman & David Erickson discuss:

• The hacked presidential seal that satirizing 45 as a Russian puppet during a recent speech
• A brilliantly creative LinkedIn post that illustrates the power of breaking expectations
• OpenAI's technology that is too dangerous to release
• The Washington Post's securing and publishing of the DEA database that tracks prescription opioid shipments
• An AI app that turns your photo into a Renaissance portrait
• The emerging career of audio book narration
• MailChimp and Vice teaming up on Second Acts
• Illustrations imagining high tech brands as retro technology
• House Wine and Cheez-Its in a box
• Influencer scamming
• Representative Tulsi Gabbard's Google Gimmick

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

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During episode 276, co-hosts BL Ochman & David Erickson discuss:

• Bud Light's offer to aliens escaping Area 51 of a specialty brew
• NASA's release of a video recreating the moon landing
• Oscar Meyer Air BnB-rentable Weinermobile
• The VOID's immersive movie experiences
• Twitter's desktop redesign
• Pampers smart diapers
• Lifestyle content on LinkedIn
• Amazon pays users for their data
• Browser extensions leaking personal data
• The Russian FaceApp
• Newsletter signup clutter
• The Spearphone attack
• Copy and paste websites

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

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During episode 275, co-hosts BL Ochman & David Erickson discuss:

• The astounding array of businesses Amazon owns
• The Area 51 search for aliens joke that 400,000 people have signed up for
• Major updates to Google My Business
• How Pittsburgh helped power the first US Moon Landing
• Pinterest adds videos
• Shoelace is Google's latest attempt at building a social network
• A hilarious parody influencer apology video
• Ikea's new Soffa Sans typeface
• Using text messages to solicit local reviews
• Dangerous dongles
• Video & email marketing pro tips

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

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During episode 274, co-hosts BL Ochman & David Erickson discuss:

• Taylor Swift headlining a Prime Video live streaming concert teasing Amazon Prime Day
• The Apollo 11 Augmented Reality app
• A historic account of brand tweets
• The periodic table of SEO success factors
• Twitter and reddit's crackdown on social media abuse
• LinkedIn's engagement algorithm update
• VW's user generated content commercial
• B.L.'s viral tweets
• Google's voice strategy
• A voice technology project that respects your privacy
• Cops commenting racial slurs
• Wayfair's employee walkout
• The Google Phishing expedition
• Blasting emails

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

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During episode 273, co-hosts BL Ochman & David Erickson discuss:

• Pakistani press conference that was filtered with cat ears
• 3D objects and augmented reality in Google search
• YouTube's augmented advertising
• Cracker Barrel's moral stand
• A robobullying parody video of Boston Scientific robots
• Museums installing 'braille art' touchable recreations of exhibits
• Spotify's Daily Drive podcast playlist and the company's new podcast-targeted advertising
• The announcement of Facebook's Libra cryptocurrency
• An AI-generated Russian spy infiltrates LinkedIn
• A deep fake Rasputin sings Beyonce
• Deep fake videos that are as easy to create as editing text
• An algorithm that can generate an accurate portrait of a speaker based only on a sample of that speaker's voice
• Google Photos goes Driveless

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

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During episode 272, co-hosts BL Ochman & David Erickson discuss:

• Mary Meeker's 2019 Internet Trends Report
• A deep fake of Mark Zuckerberg himself
• Radiohead thwarts extortionists
• Barney's department store doubles as your pot dealer
• Google Data Studio 101
• VW takes its reputation cleanup seriously
• Kraft rebrands ranch dressing as salad frosting
• Internet-prompted evolution
• Thumbdrive hacking
• The definition of hate speech
• Two popups too many

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

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During episode 271, co-hosts BL Ochman & David Erickson discuss:

• The NYC subway landshark that went viral
• Drone deliveries via Amazon Prime Air
• Vox Media Union reaches an agreement
• Boston Dynamics' commercial Spotbot
• The Obama's partner with Spotify
• Apple Podcasts transcripts
• Amazon Echo's erase feature
• Instagram's influencer ads
• Google's new search results diversity update
• Counterfeits on Amazon
• Fear-based social media sites like Nextdoor, Citizen, and Amazon Ring's Neighbors
• YouTube’s New Hate Speech Policy

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

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