Most Horrific Marketing Stories Of 2019

Beyond Social Media - 2019 Most Horrific Marketing Stories - Episode 286

Episode 286: BL and David discuss the six most horrific marketing stories of the year; Senator Mitt Romney’s Twitter persona, Pierre Delecto; the creepy and compelling Skin-On interface; Google’s olfactory artificial intelligence algorithm; Washington Post’s Arc CMS becomes a subscription service; Amazon launching a news app; Google testing lead-generation form ads;…and much, much more.

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Super Bowl Duds & YouTube Originals

Beyond Social Media - Super Bowl Commercial Duds - Episode 130

Episode 130: Co-hosts B.L. Ochman & David Erickson discussed the flap over Marc Andreessen’s comments about Facebook’s Internet access plans for India; Meryl Streep’s comments about diversity in the film industry; Super Bowl commercials that flopped; Pornhub’s latest philanthropic gesture; Snapchat’s new subscription option; Google’s new Knowledge Graph editing features; Amazon’s new video game engine; YouTube’s new original movies and shows; Instagram video views; plus great new apps and important stats and a lot of stuff in between.

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YouTube Newswire & Jeb!'s Logo

Beyond Social Media - YouTube Newswire - Episode 101

Co-hosts B.L. Ochman & David Erickson discussed YouTube’s Newswire service; Jeb Bush’s logo rollout; Heinz’ errant QR code; Twitter’s Project Lightning; #JokesFromDad; texting lanes; Professor LEGO; #TakeDownTheFlag; Denali the dog; plus great new apps and important stats and a lot of stuff in between.

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