Domino’s Pizza Stranger Things App
Domino’s & Stranger Things Brand Partnership
Episode 378 – May 22, 2022
Topics:
- Stranger Pizza
- Virtual Product Placements
- Crypto Says Eat It
- LEGO Starry Night
- Taco Bell Oil Painting
- Livestreamed Mass Murder
- Instablecoin
- GrubHub’s Costly Lunch
- ShipGo…To Hell
- Invisible Generation X
- Podcast Use Stats
During episode 378, BL and David discuss Domino’s Stranger Things brand partnership; 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; and much, much more.
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Stranger Pizza
A new Domino’s app places consumers virtually within Stranger Things’ Hawkins National Laboratory, where they can order a pizza using facial gestures.
Virtual Product Placements
Both Amazon Prime Video and NBCU’s Peacock have unveiled beta programs that allow products to be inserted into already released media.
- Time-Traveling Digital Ads Might Start Infiltrating Your Favorite TV Shows
- 2022 NewFronts
- Amazon unveils new content and advertising products across Amazon Freevee, Prime Video, and Twitch at NewFronts 2022
Coinbase Tells Haters To Eat Their Words
In its first ad since the Super Bowl, Crypto exchange Coinbase has a message for everyone declaring that crypto is dead: It’s heard this before.
Starry Bricks
On May 25, the LEGO Group is releasing The Starry Night set, a specially designed kit that replicates the blue-and-yellow painting with LEGO bricks.
- LEGO Unveils ‘The Starry Night’ Set Celebrating Van Gogh’s Most Famous Painting
- LEGO Ideas Starry Night page
Taco Bell Oil Painting
Artist Noah Verrier, who holds a Master of Fine Arts and whose works have been exhibited around the world, has taken Twitter by storm with his Taco Bell oil painting.
My oil painting of Taco Bell pic.twitter.com/9ka1GyHj06— Noah Verrier (@NoahVerrier) May 11, 2022
Worst Practices
Mass Shooting Videos Are Still On Social Platforms
Dozens of recordings of a 2019 massacre in Christchurch, New Zealand, remain online, in a sobering reminder of the internet’s permanence.
Instablecoin
Investors have withdrawn more than $7 billion from tether since it briefly dropped from its dollar peg.
GrubHub’s Free Lunch Fail
GrubHub vastly underestimated the number of New Yorkers who’d want free lunch. ‘Hangry’ customers took to Twitter to complain of orders that arrived late or not at all.
New Yorkers went as hard for free lunch as the Rangers did in game 7.
Our restaurants and drivers are still working hard fulfilling your orders. Make sure to show them love today (and every day). 🍕🧡— Grubhub (@Grubhub) May 17, 2022
ShipGo…To Hell Commercial
The Most GenX Tweet In The History Of Twitter
Baby Boomers have been running the country for nearly three decades. Some successes, a number of disappointments. It’s time to pass the baton to younger generations – Millennials & Gen Z. Pls join us for conversation tonite on @CNN with @ACCooper about my new book on subject.— David Gergen (@David_Gergen) May 10, 2022
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Hanger Reflex
The hangar reflex is making the rounds on the Internet. Apparently when you open a wire hanger and put it on your head, you automatically turn your head away from the hangers hook in an involuntary motion.
- I can’t stop watching the ‘hanger reflex’ freak people out
- Apple Co-Founder Steve Wozniak once prank-called the Vatican asking to speak to the pope