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

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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During episode 316, co-hosts BL Ochman & David Erickson discuss John Oliver's celebrity conspiracy debunkers, as well as:

• Netflix enlists Reddit digital detectives
• Minnesota Search Engine Marketing Association's virtual happy hours
• The return of Apple's Underdogs
• Reporter's email newsletters
• Amazon delays Prime Day
• Hootsuite adds Google My Business
• Brickrolling
• Yelp's economic indicators
• Facebook's parallel universe

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

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During episode 315, co-hosts BL Ochman & David Erickson discuss the massive Twitter hack and Bitcoin scam directed at high-profile accounts, as well as:

• The Minnesota Twins broadcast a scrimmage with a crowdtrack
• Free Grow With Google courses
• Long-term care seniors pose for iconic classic rock album cover recreations
• Michelle Obama's new podcast on Spotify
• Hulu rolls out self-serve advertising
• An ad agency goes fully remote
• Target joins the growing list of retailers mandating masks for customers
• Chris Cuomo calls out Trump over Goyagate
• Instagram to clone TikTok
• Hong Kong’s protest movement keeps getting stymied by Apple

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

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During episode 314, co-hosts BL Ochman & David Erickson discuss Mmhmm, a new video conferencing app that is still in beta but looks amazing, as well as:

• The tech pushback against Chinese data requests
• New evidence for Subscription Twitter
• Pinnable Instagram comments
• Google acquires an augmented reality glasses company
• Google Assistant Continuous Mode
• The FaceApp #WhatItWouldBeLike campaign
• YouTube's new affinity metrics
• A Google Project Loon update
• Jimmy Johns employees post racist video
• Mark Zuckerberg fails to impress civil rights leaders
• The Ayn Rand Institute grabs PPP money
• Anti-mask masks for sale on Etsy
• Another PR pitch from hell

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

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During episode 313, co-hosts BL Ochman & David Erickson discuss the most significant announcements to come out of Apple's 2020 Developer Conference, as well as:

• Keen, Google's new social collaboration tool
• Google Images fact checks
• Patagonia joins the growing Facebook advertising boycott
• Devin Nunes' Cow wins in court
• YouTube introduces shoppable commercials
• Pandora introduces analytics for podcasters
• Facebook continues to harbor hate
• Some Covid-19 masks that are creepy AF

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

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During episode 312, co-hosts BL Ochman & David Erickson discuss Twitter's new voice tweet feature, as well as:

• Target recognizing Juneteenth
• Spotify lands DC comics for scripted drama podcasts
• Netflix' Reid Hastings donates $120 million to black colleges
• Fox News doesn't get the joke
• Facebook's Ad Library spying tool
• Trump's Nazi ads removed
• Flipboard's Fox News problem
• #RIPTacoBell trends
• A PR person from hell

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

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During episode 311, co-hosts BL Ochman & David Erickson discuss Twitter's plans to prompt you to give a second thought to that link you're about to share, as well as:

• Twitter spruces up its lists
• Google's financial commitment to help news organizations devastated by the pandemic
• Campaign Monitor's email engagement survey
• Adopting dogs via Zoom
• Insane LEGO contraptions
• KSTP TV's new long-form newscasts
• Proctor & Gamble's active anti-racism PSA
• Jason Calacanis' call to fund a Facebook alternative
• Google scrolling your website
• Twitter's Fail on Trump tweets
• Google's cheapskate ad credits

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

• Video, Show Notes & Links: https://beyondsocialmediashow.com/311
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