Clubhouse Competition
Clubhouse Gets Competition
Episode 344 – April 3, 2021
Topics:
- The Big Guns Are Aiming At Clubhouse
- iOS’ New Emoji
- YouTube Snares A Mafioso
- Deep Nostalgia Animates Great Grandma
- Brave To Launch Private Search
- NFT PR Stunts
- Facebook Analytics Going Away
- Lil Nas X’s Satanic Shoes
- Krispy Kreme’s Anti-Vaxxer Mondays
- Voltswagen
- Mars’ Pesterbot
- Massive Facebook Leak
- Email Benchmark Data
During episode 344, BL and David discuss LinkedIn and Spotify going after Clubhouse and a Clubhouse tutorial; a mafioso whose YouTube channel gave him away; new stoner emoji coming for Apple’s iOS; an AI-powered service that animates still headshots; the forthcoming Brave privacy-focused search engine; NFT brand stunts generating publicity; Facebook is removing analytics; Lil Nas X’s satanic shoes; Volkswagen’s April Fools prank backlash; a massive Facebook user data leak; Krispy Kreme’s anti-vaxxer Mondays; Mars candy’s pesterbot;…and much, much more.
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YouTube Snags Mafioso
Stanley Tucci isn’t the only one who loves Italian cooking.
— INTERPOL (@INTERPOL_HQ) March 30, 2021
New Apple Emoji
New emoji are coming to your iPhone soon.
Clubhouse Competition
Twitter, Facebook, Mark Cuban, and now LinkedIn and Spotify are gunning for Clubhouse.
- LinkedIn Confirms It’s Working on a Clubhouse Rival Too
- Spotify acquires Betty Labs, creator of live audio app Locker Room
- Clubhouse defined a format – now it has to defend it
- Clubhouse For Business: What Marketers Need To Know
Deep Nostalgia
It seems like a nice idea in theory but it’s a tiny bit creepy as well.
— Flint Dibble 🍖🏺📖 (@FlintDibble) February 28, 2021
Brave Searching
Unlike Google, Brave Search won’t track or profile people who use it.
Worst Practices
Non-Fungible Token PR Stunts
Pizza Hut Canada recently sold…Non-Fungible Pizza.
Buh-Bye, Facebook Analytics
The social network pointed users to Ads Manager, Events Manager, Facebook Business Suite.
- Facebook Analytics Will Go Away June 30
- Facebook Analytics Is Going Away
- Introducing Facebook Business Suite
Satan’s Shoes
Pegged to the release of rapper Lil Nas X’s new single, “Montero (Call Me By Your Name),” the Nike shoes are adorned with a pentagram and the number 666, the sneakers’ soles supposedly contained: a drop of human blood.
- A prank company and Lil Nas X are selling ‘Satan Shoes’ containing a drop of human blood. Nike is suing.
- Satan’s Shoes
- MSCHF Agency website
- Lil Nas X Apologizes for Satan Shoe
Anti-Vaxxer Mondays
Krispy Kreme recently said that if you show your COVID vaccine card and you can get a free plain glazed doughnut every day through the rest of 2021.
“Voltswagen”
Volkswagen’s prank renaming of its brand to Voltswagen ending up pissing off reporters far and wide.
- An Unwelcome prank: Volkswagen purposely hoodwinks reporters
- In the Meme-Stock Era, Even Bad Voltswagen Jokes Are Worth Billions
— Bloomberg Opinion (@bopinion) April 1, 2021
Pesterbot
Mars Wrigley has created an autonomous robot that roams stores and tempts shoppers long before they reach the point of sale.
Massive Facebook Data Leak
The personal data of over 500 million Facebook users has been posted online in a low-level hacking forum.
— Alon Gal (Under the Breach) (@UnderTheBreach) April 3, 2021
Smiles
B.L.’s Finds
8 year-old cancer survivor, Lilly Bumpus sold 32,484 boxes of Girl Scout cookies, mostly via her Facebook page.
Shiny New Stuff
David’s Finds
Join John Lee as he discusses marketing through brand experiences in 2021 at Minnesota Search Engine Marketing Association’s (MnSearch) event on March 24, 2021.
— David Erickson #BLM (@derickson) April 1, 2021
Politics
Brands vs. Voter Suppression
The floodgates are open.
- Exclusive: Apple’s Tim Cook says voting “ought to be easier than ever”
- Top CEOs speak out against Georgia’s voting restrictions
- Corporate America speaks on Georgia’s voting restrictions
— Steve Simon (@MNSteveSimon) April 2, 2021