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

During episode 300, co-hosts BL Ochman & David Erickson discuss the coronavirus crisis, including:

• The contrast in leadership between governors Andrew Cuomo and Tim Walz and Trump
• Siri's response to Do I Have The Coronavirus?
• Smart thermometers that may be able to identify local outbreaks
• Covid 19 pandemic maps
• Twitter helping brands communicate during the crisis
• A New York-based Chinese immigrant stepping up to manufacture personal protective equipment for health care workers
• The responsibility of the media in broadcasting the White House coronavirus "briefings" live
• Moe Williams' daily doodles
• Willie's American Guitars offer two-minute guitar lessons on Facebook
• Amazon limits non-essential shipments
• The ENKI Brewing Company taproom goes curbside
• Coronavirus resources and free entertainment
• Pandemic gallows humor
• Google's California-only Covid 19 triage website
• The two faces of Fox News
• The Army's social media manager gets canned
• Idiots that will cost lives
• TV commercials that have not aged well in the coronavirus era
• Live webcams broadcasting deserted public spaces
• The Department Of Justice wanting to suspend costitutional rights

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

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During episode 299, co-hosts BL Ochman & David Erickson discuss:

• LinkedIn and Twitter are jumping on the Story bandwagon
• The City of Austin cancels SxSW over Coronavirus fears
• The Office's Kevin's famous chili returns
• A viral voicemail plays in movie theaters
• The Simpsons are recreated in CSS code
• AR glasses let firefighters see through smoke
• Redditors fight disinformation
• Heineken has a drink and drive public fridge
• WHO TikToks Coronavirus

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

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During episode 298, co-hosts BL Ochman & David Erickson discuss:

• Absurd Corona beer virus searches and fears
• A CNN weatherman's face filter forecast
• Giphy & Jif peanut butter's Gif or jif debate ad
• Media literacy classes in school
• Walmart's reply to David's healthcare clinic Tweet shows smart earned media strategy
• Stars & Stripes deleted by vindictive Trump
• LinkedIn adds pinned updates
• Podcast and Netflix rankings released
• Anti-Putin blogger assassinated
• Leap Year baby finally turns 21
• Greta Thunberg responds like a heroine
• Bloomberg will send Trump a pink slip for you

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

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During episode 297, co-hosts BL Ochman & David Erickson discuss:

• Burger King's disgusting moldy Whopper campaign
• Podcast studios coming to Staples
• An FTC crackdown on influencers
• Lifetouch's clever "About Us" branding
• Alexa smart speaker spying
• eSports home teams
• Redbox Live streaming service
• An ode to Wikipedia
• Coronavirus riots in Ukraine

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

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During episode 296, co-hosts BL Ochman & David Erickson discuss:

• Amazon's program to create actual brand voices to play on its Echo smart speaker
• Google's Project Witness that uses virtual reality to generate empathy for jailed children
• ASCII art of refugee programmers
• Tech titans' efforts to combat coronavirus misinformation
• Augmented reality Google Maps
• Facebook's bug bounty program
• Chrome's website security deadline
• Reviews in Google Search Console
• A glaring user experience fail in Adobe Acrobat
• Target's Minnesota Badgers miscue

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

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During episode 295, co-hosts BL Ochman & David Erickson discuss:

• The San Antonio Zoo's "Cry Me A Cockroach" vindictive Valentines promotion
• Social media-savvy Astronaut Christina returns to Earth
• Seventh Generation's brilliant State of the Union commercial
• Spotify's podcast expansion
• Flirting with Tinder bots
• Netflix' Oscars push
• Twitter squashes student's parody, then apologizes
• Planters Baby Nut banned
• Best and worst Super Bowl LIV ads
• The Iowa Caucus debacle
• Hacking Google Maps
• The world's worst job ad and world's funniest resume
• Clearview AI slapped with cease-and-decists
• Celebrity Cruises' acid trip commercial
• 2020 election disinformation wars
• Edelman's Global Trust Barometer

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

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During episode 294, co-hosts BL Ochman & David Erickson discuss:

• Kraft crowdsourcing its Super Bowl commercial
• Pantone's Super Bowl color commentary
• Micheal Bloomberg's Dog People Get Me ad
• The 2020 new emoji lineup
• Free art downloads
• David Berkowitz' marketing English
• Scroll funding journalism via subscriptions
• Facebook stalking
• Illegal social media in China
• Clearview AI's racist ties
• Hyper-sensitive Super Bowl ads

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

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During episode 293, co-hosts BL Ochman & David Erickson discuss:

• Why Planters murdered Mr. Peanut
• Angelina Jolie producing a BBC show to teach children how to spot fake news
• A brewery that put shelter dogs on beer cans to spur adoptions
• Verizon's new OneSearch privacy-focused search engine
• Product Hunt's Golden Kitty Awards
• Google podcast time stamping
• Apple TV+ Podcasts
• Morning Brew's podcast lessons
• Fraudulent .gov domains
• YouTube moderators' PTSD
• Apple's encryption back door

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

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During episode 292, co-hosts BL Ochman & David Erickson discuss:

• Spotify podcast and playlists for dogs
• Bing's new business and persona pages
• New LinkedIn Pages features
• Google allowing branding in search
• TuneIn's new sonic logo
• Clever UX
• The return of Gary Larson's The Far Side
• Fleeceware in Google Play
• eTicketing brings the end of paper tickets
• Kohler's creepy bathroom guy

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

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During episode 291, co-hosts BL Ochman & David Erickson discuss:

• BBC's brilliant out of home Dracula reveal
• Twitter's changing conversations
• NPR/Edison Research Smart Audio Report
• Spotify in top spot for podcast discovery
• Lego trolls Tesla
• Misinformation on Australian wildfires spreads on social media
• Disinformation PR firms peddle false narratives
• What not to name your audiobook
• Facebook's plans for world domination
• Truly stupid commercials
• McDonald's CEO's Instagram #FAIL

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

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