McDonald’s Travis Scott Meal
McDonald’s Travis Scott Meal
Episode 323 – September 19, 2020
Topics:
- Voting’s A Snap
- Stop-Motion McDonald’s
- Swisher’s Sway
- Logo Fonts
- YouTube Shorts
- Facebook Knew
- No YouTube Multitasking
- VR Time
During episode 323, BL and David discuss McDonald’s new stop-motion 30-second spot featuring the Travis Scott Meal; the wonders of a liveable wage; Logofonts; Snapchat’s voting tools; YouTube Shorts; Kara Swisher’s Sway podcast; Patagonia’s pottymouth; Facebook’s failure to act; YouTube blocks iOS picture-in-picture mode;…and much, much more.
Best Practices
World’s Greatest CEO?
In 2015, Dan Price, the CEO of Gravity Payments, a credit card processing company, raised everyone’s base pay to $70K.
Since we raised min wage to $70k in 2015:
*Revenue tripled
*Profit doubled
*Employee 401(k) contributions grew 130%
*Staff having kids/buying homes grew 10x
*67% paid down debt
*Turnover cut in half
Happy employees = good for society and good for businesshttps://t.co/MVQbrlE5Lp— Dan Price (@DanPriceSeattle) September 18, 2020
McDonald’s Channels Robot Chicken
That Travis Scott Meal looks awfully familiar.
Snap The Vote
Last week, Snapchat rolled out a slate of voting tools, including a feature for users to register to vote directly in the app.
- 400,000 people have registered to vote through Snapchat
- Twitter is launching an election hub with voting info in English and Spanish
Logofonts
Logofonts reveals the fonts that are used in some of the world’s biggest brands, from Nike to Spotify to YouTube.
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Swisher’s Sway
Times Opinion is teaming up with Kara Swisher on a new podcast about power and influence.
YouTube Shorts
Who likes short Shorts?
Pottymouth Patagonia
Patagonia Clothing Tags Ask Customers To “Vote the Assholes Out.”
- Patagonia Clothing Tags Asks Customers To “Vote the Assholes Out”
- 2020 Elections: Make A Plan To Vote
Worst Practices
#FacebookKnew
BuzzFeed obtained the 6,600-word internal memo from a former Facebook data scientist that exposes how the social network knew about specific examples of global political manipulation with fake accounts — and failed to act.
No YouTube Multitasking
Picture-in-picture still works on iPad for free and paid users, though.
iOS 14’s picture-in-picture mode doesn’t work with YouTube in Safari. 🤔 pic.twitter.com/JwGLAmwhwb— Jay Peters 🧇 (@jaypeters) September 18, 2020
Smiles
- This Robot Makes Rolatini – A new gizmo from DaVinci Kitchen uses droid technology to create pasta dishes, and can be programmed with thousands of recipes, ingredients, and cooking temperatures.
- Disney Princesses Reimagined As Millennials – Kiev-based illustrator Daria Artemieva who shows how these fairytale characters would look like if they were modern-day Millennials.
- A Random Act of Kindness – Man pays for woman’s groceries when her card is declined.
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Shiny New Stuff
B.L.’s Finds
- Vimeo Gets More Pro Friendly
- Zoom now lets you drag-and-drop people in Gallery View to put them into any order you want
- Journalists Toolbox
David’s Finds
Politics
BL’s Finds
- Pro-Trump youth group enlists teens in secretive campaign likened to a ‘troll farm,’ prompting rebuke by Facebook and Twitter
- I Will Vote
Ruth Bader Ginsburg has earned her rest. May it be glorious. And may God have mercy on the rest of us as we lose another soldier in the fight against the worst impulses of this country.— Brittney Cooper (@ProfessorCrunk) September 18, 2020
David’s Find
- #Unfit – The Psychology Of Donald Trump