🍗 Cheetos Mascot Named New Colonel Sanders, The Vegans Are coming, Diet Coke's New Label-Free Soda Cans & More

Diet Coke unveils label-free soda cans. Taco Bell Hotel reservations sell out in two minutes. Sabra warns 'The Vegans are coming' to your summer BBQ. And the Cheetos mascot is named new Colonel Sanders.

IN THIS EPISODE:

🍗   The Cheetos mascot gets named the new … Colonel Sanders? (at 1 min 21 sec)

🥤    Diet Coke erases its identity in the name of inclusiveness (at 2:51)

🌮     Welcome to the Hotel WTF: Taco Bell Hotel reservations sell out in under two minutes (at 5:10)

🍖    Sabra warns 'The Vegans are Coming' to your summer BBQ (at 6:46)

👘    Did Kim Kardashian opens her 'Kimono' to major controversy? (at 8:58)

🛒     Why US ecommerce growth is about to get tougher (at 9:35)

👹     'Stranger's Things: Will product placement turn everybody's favorite Netflix show upside down? (at 10:28)

Approx. 12:23

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💥 2019 Cannes Lions Grand Prix Winners, Mary Meeker's Internet Trends Report & More

It's a supersized edition of Rick and Rick, with Mary Meeker's 2019 Internet Trends Report. Grand Prix Winners from this year's Cannes Lions Advertising Festival. Miller Light turns a beer into a game controller. Plus, all the coolest Funko toys headed to San Diego Comic-Con, and a whole lot more.

IN THIS EPISODE

🕷    'Spider-Man: Far from Home' arrives just in time (at :48 sec)

🦇    Poll about best Caped Crusader leaves out Adam West, fans go batshit (at 1:26)

🍻    Miller Lite turns a beer can into a game controller, and we'll drink to that (at 3:39)

👍🏻      Who's a better Internet role model: Keanu Reeves or Mark Hamill?  (at 6:20)

🤡      Chuckles, Krusty, or Pennywise? Funko's funky Comic-Con line up (at 8:32)

📱      Key insights from Mary Meeker's 2019 Internet Trends Report (at 10:20)

🏆      Grand Prix winners at the 2019 Cannes Lions Advertising Festival (at 19:08)

⭐️     Holy Hollywood icons: Look who's getting a star on the Walk of Fame (at 22:03)

🦁     2019 Cannes Lions' Buzzword Bingo (at 22:40)

🦸🏻‍♂️    More special edition toys coming to San Diego Comic-Con (at 24:04)

 

Approx. 27 min.

 

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🚀 'Space' Jam, Gillette's 'First Shave,' Booze as the New Wellness Drink & More

Pearl Jam's out to party like it's 2062. Booze wants to be the new wellness drink. Gillette's "First Shave." Man-size Kleenex and more.

In this Episode:

🚀 "Space" Jam: Pearl Jam's New Space Needle Time Capsule
(at 1 min, 30 sec)

💥 ComicCon: Marvel & WB Pull Out of Hall H
(at 4:27)

🍸 Booze is the New Wellness Drink?
(at 5:57)

🧔🏽 Gillette's "First Shave"
(at 8:38)

⛑ Shocking Los Angeles: "Mass Shooting Insurance"
(at 10:30)

🏞 One Outdoor Brand's Search-Jacking Jumble
(at 12:33)

🤧 Inclusion: "Man-size Kleenex"
(at 14:18)

(Approx. 15 min, 40 seconds)

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🧔🏽 Dollar Shave Club's 'Dad Bods,' IKEA;s Sitcom Living Rooms & Enter 'The Bancake List'

Dollar Shave Club celebrates 'Dad Bods.' Ikea turns your living room into the set of your favorite sitcom. How to become a bolder brand. Top on-page SEO factors. And enter: The Bancake List, targeting iHob haters, plus more.

In this Episode:

🎸📺 🎧 iTunes, RIP (at :52 seconds)

👨🏽‍💻 Apple's $999 monitor stand (at 2:30)

▶️ Disney v. Netscape (at 3:52)

🦇 Batman Does Buehring (at 5:30)

🙈 Dollar Shave Club Puts 'Dad Bods' on Display (at 6:40)

🥞 iHob's 'Bancake List' (at 8:25)

🛋 IKEA's Sitcom Living Rooms (at 9:55)

💪🏼 How to Be a Bolder Brand (at: 11:14)

🕵🏽‍♀️ Top On-Page SEO Factors (at 14:07)

🧟‍♂️ Crazy Upcoming Animated TV Shows (at 15:03)

🍻 Getting Fined for Bailing on Your Brew Crew (at 16:30)

Approx 18 min. For US audiences. Review cookie and privacy policies for SoundCloud, iTunes, Spotify, all other sites and players.

🥤 'New Coke' Returns, Fortnite Just Does It, Magical Marketing Words & More

The Ricks review "Brightburn." New Coke returns after 34 years. Nike gives Fortnite characters some badass kicks. Magical marketing words. Your chances of dying from everyday activities, and more.

In this Episode:

😡 "Brightburn" Torches the Superman Mythos (at :52 sec)

🕺🏻 Don't Go Dancing: Your Surprising Chances of Dying Doing Everyday Things (6:01)

🥤 New Coke Returns in Cross-Promo for "Stranger Things" Season 3 (at 8:52)

👟 Nike Skins Come to Fortnite (at 10:08)

🧒🏼 "Runaway Train" Music Video Brings Geolocation to a Good Cause (at 11:10)

🎩 18 Magical Marketing Words That Boost Conversion (at 13:07)

🍔 Burger King "Whopper Detour" Case Study (at 14:22)

👩🏼‍🎤 Snap's Bringing Something New to Your Snaps (at 16:06)

(Approx. 17 min 30 sec)

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🐉 AR Dragons, CX Sells, ASMR Affirmations for Creative Directors, KFC Busts a Move and More

🍗 KFC's new 'Bucket Bangers' Spotify playlist. AR dragons dive-bomb baseball fans. Parents name their kids after 'Game of Thrones' characters. ASMR affirmations for creative directors. Plus: The secrets of CX appeal and a whole lot more.

IN THIS EPISODE: 

🎉 A shout out to special listener (at :40 sec)

🐲 SK Telecom's augmented reality dragons dive-bomb baseball fans (at 1:03)

🏰 Parents are naming their children after their favorite 'Game of Thrones' characters (at 3:15)

👟 Move over, Laurel & Yanny: How you see these tennis shoes tells you whether you're right- or left-brained (at 4:20)

🎧 Top 5 ASMR Affirmations for Creative Directors (at 6:10)

🍔 Traffic Jam Whopper: Burger King will deliver right to your car door when you're stuck traffic (at 9:30)

🎶 KFC busts a move with a finger-licking playlist with all 46 hip hop tunes that mention the brand (at 11:20)

🛒 CX Appeal: Top 4 things customers value most when it comes to a positive customer experience (at 12:57)

🚶‍♀️🚶 The high price of even one bad customer experience (at 15:53)

👩‍👧‍👦 Age-old Mom-isms that apply to CX (at 17:28)

(Approx. 19 min, 5 sec. For US audiences. See cookie and privacy policies for Soundcloud, iTunes, Spotify and all streaming services.)

🥽 Oculus Whiffed? Cool New Products, But Will Best Ecosystem Ultimately Win?

Oculus rolls out cool new VR headsets. But could an ecosystem player like Valve apply some pressure? And will it be the best devices, or the best total ecosystem, that ultimately wins the VR wars?

IN THIS EPISODE: 

🥽 A look at the full suite of Oculus devices (at :04 sec)

✌🏻 How Oculus has enhanced its motion sensing capabilities (at 2:32)

🤓 Which one will Rick W. get? The difference between each, and their buyers (3:16)

👾 Why Rift may not be the best option for Rick M. (at 6:15)

❓ Quest v. Rift ... (6:25)

🆚 … vs. Valve and its new Index device? (at 7:05)

👁‍🗨 Why not 3D movies and TV, too? (at 9:34)

🎉 Will the best ecosystem ultimately win the VR wars? (at 10:17)

Approx. 12 min, 46 sec. For US audiences. Review cookie policies for SoundCloud, iTunes, and your streaming channels of choice.

🎙 Silent Print Ads You Can Hear, BK's Unhappy Meals & How to Think Like a Futurist

Coca-Cola's silent print ads you can hear. Burger King's New Unhappy Meals. Leadership Advice from Artificial Intelligence. Plus: How to think like a futurist, ASMR for Artists, and a whole lot more.

IN THIS EPISODE:

🍿  Will 'Avengers' End 'Avatar's' Reign and Top $3 Billion? (at :35 seconds)

🧠  Leadership Slogans from Artificial Intelligence (at 2:30)

🎧ASMR Affirmations for Artists (at 3:48)

🗣  Social Media Toughens Up (at 6:36)

🥤Coca-Cola's Silent Print Ads You Can Hear (at 10:09)

🍔        Burger King's Unhappy Meals (at 13:14)

🛍        The #1 Channel for Customer/Retailer Communications (at 16:14)

🔮5 Top Ways to Think Like a Futurist (at 16:14)

🛒The #1 Most Powerful Tool for Driving In-Store Traffic

(Approx. 21 min, 35 sec. For US audiences. See cookie and privacy policies for Soundcloud, iTunes, Spotify and all streaming services.)

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Our Second Annual Marketing Predictions Episode

The Ricks get in touch with their inner Pre-Cogs as they reveal their top three predictions for digital marketing , media, and more in the year ahead. That's right: It's our 2nd Annual Predictions Episode, and if our recent Predictions Scorecard episode is any indication, this is an episode you don't want to miss! From March 7. 

IN THIS EPISODE:

👑 Is Disney Domination at risk this year? (at 1:07)

🎬 Will 'Avengers: Endgame' really be 2019's box office champ?
(at 1:15)

⚡️ … Or will 'Captain Marvel' blast her way to the top? (at 1:44)

👾 Are you ready to hit the GaaS - as in, "Games-as-a-Service"? (at 2:02)

🤖 Is MarTech cruising on autopilot, or in for a turbulent reality check this year? (at 7:07)

📚Will marketing go old-school in the months ahead? And what would that even mean? (at 8:35)

📣 Will 'Deep Fakes' mean real headaches for business and society this year? (at 10:34)

👨🏻‍🎨 Will AI replace the advertising creative director? (at 12:47)

🛒 Will shortsighted C-suites give up on CX initiatives in a softening economy? (at 15:08)

😎 Is VR ready for the arena? And what happens if it's not? (at 16:53)

Approximate 20 min, 16 seconds.

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🍿 The Ricks Review: 'Avengers: Endgame' (Major Spoilers)

The inevitable has arrived: It's time for our spoiler-rich review of Marvel's latest blockbuster hit, "Avengers: Endgame." In a show recorded on the film's first Sunday in theaters, Rick and Rick well, marvel at its $1.2 billion opening weekend box office, and deconstruct what flies, and what flops, in the era-ending climax to what has by mid-week would become the #1 most successful movie franchise of all time. From April 28.

 

In This Episode:

💰Box Office: A Case of Reach = Revenue (at :40 sec)

🎉  Opening Weekend Excitement (at 1:56)

📈  Avengers: By the Numbers (at 3:20)

😎  First Reactions (at 4:09)

🥊  The Fight of Their Lives (at 4:47)

♾To Here from 'Infinity' (at 5:27)

👩‍✈️Enter: Captain Cameo? (at 7:00)

😶Strange Love (at 8:17)

🥤  Snackage: 'Zero + Hero (at 8:45)

⬆️  Elevating Hydra (at 9:25)

🤓Hulk Has Something to Say (at 10:33)

🎭Rating Performances (at 11:23)

🕷Widow No More (at 11:56)

🥝  How the Other Half Lives (at 13:30)

⏳Time's a Stich and Then You Die (at 14:09)

🎓High School and the 5+ Year Plan (at 16:25)

🦋Loki and the Butterfly Effect (at 17:26)

𝑨, 𝐁, 𝐂 or?  Final Grades (at 17:55)

 

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(Approx. 20 min. For US audiences. Be sure to review cookie, privacy policies for SoundCloud and iTunes)