The Last Digital Marketing News Show of the Year On this week’s episode of Marketing O’Clock, we’re bringing you a special year-end episode to look back at 2019. In addition to delivering the news of the week, Greg Finn, Jess Budde, and Christine “Shep” Zirnheld are presenting our first annual award show, The Clockscars. Join us […]
Facebook’s 10-Year Challenge Was A Huge Mistake. The ‘10-year challenge‘ was one of the most popular social network memes of the year. As the name implies, the challenge involved posting side-by-side portraits of yourself from 2009 and 2019. Then people began to worry: are we unknowingly helping giant corporations to improve their algorithms for biometric […]
The decade was rife with rules for life — we’d do well to pay attention. It’s been a decade full of lessons: who to trust, when to speak out and how to stream big events online after you’ve broken up with your cable company. In 2010, the first iPhone was only three years old. Uber and Lyft didn’t exist, and […]
Instagram posts about vaping banned for breaking advertising rules British American Tobacco (BAT) is among four e-cigarette sellers banned from promoting their products on public Instagram pages after adverts appeared alongside pictures of well-known celebrities. BAT claimed its posts that included pictures of Lily Allen, Bohemian Rhapsody star Rami Malek and other famous faces only “provided information” to users and were […]
Google employees in Venice joined their counterparts around the world and staged a mass walkout in November 2018 in protest of sexual misconduct at the company. Jay L. Clendenin, Los Angeles Times SAN FRANCISCO — Big tech companies like Facebook Inc. and Alphabet Inc.’s Google, long seen as some of the world’s most desirable workplaces offering […]
