• Mathfluencers & Knitfluencers
    Jun 13 2022

    During episode 379, co-hosts BL Ochman & David Erickson discuss teacher math influencers on TikTok and a knitting influencer, as well as:

    • Search engine optimization for educational videos
    • Slack's name pronounciation feature
    • A clever QR code commercial
    • Advertising guns
    • Doorbell ads
    • A Facebook phishing scandal
    • Clumsy training videos
    • Click-Through Rates by ranking stats

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

    • Video, Show Notes & Links: https://beyondsocialmediashow.com/379
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    39 mins
  • Domino's Stranger Pizza
    May 23 2022

    During episode 378, co-hosts BL Ochman & David Erickson discuss Domino's Stranger Things pizza app, as well as:

    • The brave new frontier of virtual product placements
    • Coinbase gets all up in in haters' faces
    • LEGO's crowdsourced Starry Night set
    • A Taco Bell oil painting
    • The problem of livestreamed mass murder
    • The disasterously misnamed stablecoins
    • GrubHub's costly lunch
    • ShipGo's ridiculing commercial
    • The most GenX tweet in the history of Twitter
    • Podcast consumption stats

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

    • Video, Show Notes & Links: https://beyondsocialmediashow.com/378
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    44 mins
  • Elon Musk & Twitter Circles
    May 8 2022

    During episode 377, co-hosts BL Ochman & David Erickson discuss Elon Musk's acquisition of Twitter and the composition of his tweets, as well as:

    • How the tech titans are teaming up to forge a password-free future
    • How video game engines are transforming Hollywood
    • Twitter's testing of Circles
    • LeBron James talks to his younger self
    • Budweiser's politically-charged "freedom" cans
    • Cannabis marketers stealing famous food brand packaging
    • Video ads crashing news apps
    • Instagram marketing statistics

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

    • Video, Show Notes & Links: https://beyondsocialmediashow.com/377
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    43 mins
  • The Demise Of CNN Plus
    Apr 25 2022

    During episode 376, co-hosts BL Ochman & David Erickson discuss the quick and nasty demise of CNN+, as well as:

    • A PSA campaign featuring actual gunshot victims unboxing firearms
    • Google Docs can write summaries and OpenAI can write much more impressive prose
    • Stripe and Twitter partnering on crypto payouts
    • YouTube's new keyword research tool
    • Google's Earth Day Doodle
    • Jimmy John's gets high
    • An NFT get-rich-quick scheme
    • BeReal stats

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

    • Video, Show Notes & Links: https://beyondsocialmediashow.com/376
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    43 mins
  • Pink Floyd Reforms For Ukraine & YouTube Reactions
    Apr 10 2022

    During episode 375, co-hosts BL Ochman & David Erickson discuss Pink Floyd reuniting for Ukraine, as well as:

    • YouTube experiments with reactions
    • AdAge educates marketers on Web3
    • Podcasts on Twitter
    • Twitter's edit button
    • Fortune 1's NFTpocalypse
    • Voice-activated graphic design
    • AI salesforce
    • The mother of all Facebook lawsuits
    • Podcast consumption

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

    • Video, Show Notes & Links: https://beyondsocialmediashow.com/375
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    42 mins
  • 💩 Burger King's Poop Emoji Ice Cream
    Mar 27 2022

    During episode 374, co-hosts BL Ochman & David Erickson discuss Burger King's poop emoji ice cream, as well as:

    • Ukraine's NFT fundraiser
    • The conversational receptiveness of Arnold Schwarzenegger's video address to the Russian people
    • YouTube video essays
    • Sting's new Hiring Chain music video for World Down Syndrome Day
    • Google's sunsetting Universal Analytics
    • A botched TikTok takedown attempt

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

    • Video, Show Notes & Links: https://beyondsocialmediashow.com/374
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    34 mins
  • Dolly Parton + Metaverse = Dollyverse
    Mar 13 2022
    During episode 373, co-hosts BL Ochman & David Erickson discuss Dolly Parton joining the metaverse, as well as:
    • Tracking the emotional responses to commercials
    • Twitter's new eCommerce shops
    • How to claim credit for your work so your boss doesn't steal it
    • The White House's influencer marketing efforts to combat Russia's anti-Ukraine propaganda
    • Russia's bankrolling of pro-Putin influencers
    • Yet another PR pitch from hell
    • Facebook's random banning of pages

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

    • Video, Show Notes & Links: https://beyondsocialmediashow.com/373
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    41 mins
  • Crowdsourcing Ukraine War Intel
    Feb 28 2022

    During episode 372, co-hosts BL Ochman & David Erickson discuss how some California researchers identified Russian invasion troop movements using Google Maps, as well as:

    • The new Twitter Community features
    • LinkedIn's new marketers' community group
    • The growing base of Metaverse users;
    • Applebee's annoyed at CNN for picture-in-picture ad placement within breaking war coverage
    • Gaming Wikipedia's SCOTUS candidate bio pages
    • YouTube's random, mistaken takedown notices
    • Fake Instagram Ukraine war accounts

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

    • Video, Show Notes & Links: https://beyondsocialmediashow.com/372
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    33 mins