Game Of Thrones Archives - Beyond Social Media

Culturejacking Game of Thrones

By David Erickson | April 19, 2019 |

Episode 266: BL and David discuss the Atlanta Falcons, OREOs, and Fender Guitars culturejacking the last season of Game of Thrones; a 5 year-old’s podcast; Search Metrics’ industry-specific search ranking factors; the IRL trolling of Twitter’s Jack Dorsey; the New York Times’ brilliant use of the Hero space for storytelling; Apple’s Earth Day video; LinkedIn’s new reactions; Marketoonist’s take on smart speakers; travelling podcast studios; Helvetica Now; All In The Family live; Twitter author labels; Notre Dame fire misinformation; Facebook grabbing contact list emails; Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez sort of quitting social media…and much, much more.

10 Most Terrifying Marketing Stories Of 2017

By David Erickson | October 28, 2017 |

Beyond Social Media - 10 Most Horrific Stories of 2017 - Episode 207

On Episode 207, BL and David discuss the top ten marketing screw ups they’ve covered for 2017, among them United Airlines beating up a passenger and Pepsi appropriating the Black Lives Matter movement.

Fearless Girl Faces Charging Bull & Spoken Spotify

By David Erickson | March 11, 2017 |

Beyond Social Media - International Womens Day - Episode 178

Episode 178: Co-hosts B.L. Ochman and David Erickson discussed the fearless girl facing off with the Wall Street Bull; Spotify’s play for podcasts; Twitter’s egg filter; Amazon’s growing advertising business; the testing trolls comment solution; voice IP Alexa calls; YouTube’s similarity algorithm; WikiLeaks as Russia’s useful fool; ISP’s browsing your browsing history; Trump’s International Women’s Day tweets; no press access for you!; HBO’s Facbook Live meltdown;…and much, much more.

Chewbacca Mom & Google Home

By David Erickson | May 22, 2016 |

Beyond Social Media - Chewbacca Mom and Google Home - Episode 144

Co-hosts B.L. Ochman & David Erickson discussed the Chewbacca Mom viral video; the competitor to Amazon Echo, Google Home; Sky TV’s #CommandTheUnsullied Twitter spam; Google Instant Apps; the pros and cons of LinkedIn ProFinder; Twitter’s kinda-expanding character count; Blab’s strange pivot to Tinder-live video conferencing; the Google-N fail; VR for Good; 360 music videos; Google’s Parsey McParseface tool; plus great new apps and important stats and a lot of stuff in between.

12 Taylor Swift Gifs & Obama's State Of The Union Videos

By David Erickson | January 17, 2015 |

Co-hosts B.L. Ochman & David Erickson discussed the 12 Taylor Swift Gifs House Speaker John Boehner recently shared; President Obama’s State of the Union trailer videos; the apparent demise of Google Glass; Coldplay’s interactive animated music video; Consumer Electronics Show gadgets, the 12 Monkeys “lighting track”; plus great new apps and important stats and a lot of stuff in between.

GM's Dangerous Mobile App & Brand Reaction To The World Cup Biter [VIDEO]

By David Erickson | June 28, 2014 |

This episode: Gawker trashes yogurt; GM’s dangerous mobile app; Aaron Paul’s Xbox One commercial glitch; Tide culturejacks Game of Thrones; brands react to the World Cup biter.

The Let's Get Social Song & Virgin Galactic

By David Erickson | April 12, 2014 |

This episode: The Let’s Get Social song; Heartbleed bug; The Rolling Stone cover; Virgin Galactic; IKEA’s popup train; Fabrege egg hunt; Vikings owned media.