Text Messaging Archives - Beyond Social Media

Disney’s Robotic Groot

By David Erickson | May 24, 2021 |

BL and David discuss Disney’s development of atonomous bi-pedal robots to play characters such as Groot at the theme parks; YouTube’s new audio ad format; Google’s LaMDA AI model; Hulu’s self-serve advertising; About This Site coming to a search near you; the brand texting trend; Mattel wants to recycle your old Barbies; Snap’s Spectacles are back in AR form; India wants to erase “Indian Variant” from social media; Google Analytics 4 readiness;…and much, much more.

Boomfluencers

By David Erickson | April 18, 2021 |

BL and David discuss Baby Boomers as the new influencers; Google Earth’s timelapse visualization of climate change; Steak-Umm picks a fight with Neil deGrasse Tyson on Twitter; Reddit considers its own Clubhouse clone; Broadway returns; LinkedIn creates creator tools; LinkedIn asks for secret endorsements; Non-Fungible Tokens sold to raise funds for a kidney transplant; everything you want to know about NFTs but was afraid to ask; how to use Google My Business posts; Kribi self-cleaning underwear; your privacy reading list; zero-click search results data;…and much, much more.

Microsoft LinkedIn Deal & Orlando Shooting Text Messages

By David Erickson | June 18, 2016 |

Beyond Social Media - Microsoft Buys LinkedIn - Episode 147

Episode 147: BL and David discuss the Microsoft/LinkedIn deal; the live-streamed death on Facebook; insecure security cameras; the likelihood of a post-literate society; Orlando shooting text messages; a British grandma’s polite searches; a vulgar gardening show; Snapchat’s lifestyle magazine; the Democrats live-Tweeting their filibuster; big Apple announcements; the YouTube Director app; the #CheerioChallenge; and much, much more.

Intuit QuickBooks Buys Super Bowl Ad For Death Wish Coffee

By David Erickson | February 2, 2016 |

Co-hosts B.L. Ochman & David Erickson discussed Intuit QuickBook’s generous gift of a Super Bowl ad; a press release from hell; Google Glass’ disappearing act; Tweets out of context; URL keywords as commentary; MailChip’s late Eep URL shortening “service”; Donald Trump; Tony the Tiger and his furry friends; Google search quality meetings; SurveyMonkey’s excellent customer service; plus great new apps and important stats and a lot of stuff in between.

50 Shades Of Marketing

By David Erickson | February 14, 2015 |

Epoisode 83: Co-hosts B.L. Ochman & David Erickson discussed the many marketers who are culturejacking the 50 Shades of Grey movie release; Jon Stewart’s exit from The Daily Show; the best and the worst of the Taylor Swift marketing machine; Google shutting down Helpouts; Facebook’s Legacy pages; plus great new apps and important stats and a lot of stuff in between.