Posted on December 16, 2019 4:00 am by Shel Holtz | For Immediate Release
The December episode of “The Hobson & Holtz Report” features Neville and Shel discussing these topics:
- Social media lessons from the UK’s 2019 general election
- Podcasts will be eligible for Pulitzer Prizes
- You may be able to create your own Twitter
- Merriam-Webster’s word of the year and the communicators who reject it
- The English language is finally losing its grip on the internet
- Key digital…
Posted on November 18, 2019 4:00 am by Shel Holtz | For Immediate Release
Cross-posted from the FIR Podcast Network.
The November episode of “The Hobson and Holtz Report” features Neville and Shel discussing these topics:
- MeWe and WT:Social are among the latest crop of social networks offering serious privacy in an attempt to dethrone Facebook
- A new tool lets brands remove negative comments from paid social media posts
- QR codes have made a comeback
- AI writer…
Posted on September 23, 2019 7:22 am by Shel Holtz | For Immediate Release
The September episode of “The Hobson and Holtz Report” features Shel and Neville discussing these topics:
- Voice assistants have reached critical mass (and adoption of smart speakers is soaring)
- Thieves are using AI deepfakes to trick employees into sending them money
- Electric car owners could be able to choose fake sounds their cars make
- Not one PR agency was willing to take on…
Posted on August 19, 2019 8:03 am by Shel Holtz | For Immediate Release
There is no Hobson in the August episode of “The Hobson and Holtz Report” (for good reason). Shel reports on these stories:
- TripAdvisor’s lawyers had some fun—and put the company’s values on display—in a cease-and-desist letter aimed at the organizers of the so-called Straight Pride March, which had used the company’s marks without permission
- Ogilvy’s CEO had a meeting with employees to talk about its relationship…
Posted on July 22, 2019 7:18 am by Shel Holtz | For Immediate Release
The July edition of “The Hobson and Holtz Report” features Neville Hobson and Shel Holtz discussing these stories:
- Have we hit “peak podcast”?
- Google’s trying social media again
- These are the top 10 emerging technologies of 2019
- Communicators need to explore new channels for their messages
- You downloaded FaceApp. Here’s what you’ve just done to your privacy
- Consumers are less attentive to news on mobile devices …
Posted on June 24, 2019 4:00 am by Shel Holtz | For Immediate Release
The June edition of “The Hobson and Holtz Report” features Neville Hobson and Shel Holtz talking about these stories:
- Boeing’s Max 737 crisis is a textbook case of ignoring standards of crisis communication
- Mary Meeker’s annual Internet Trends report has a lot of meat for communicators
- Privacy policies are an incomprehensible disaster
- North Face and its ad agency thought it was clever…
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