🎙 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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2018 Predictions Scorecard—1 Year Later

🔮 The Ricks review what they got right, and what they got wrong, in their first annual predictions episode in early 2018. Which of their prognostications on marketing, media, tech and pop culture turned out to be solid hits? Which ones were serious misses? It's time to grade the good, the bad and the WTF predictions—one year later.

IN THIS EPISODE:

🍡 Pez Candy: Time for a 'Rick & Rick' Dispenser? (at 1:07)

🏛 Politics: Did More Brands Take Sides, or Channel Switzerland? (at 2:07)

🏈 The San Francisco 49'ers: Touchdown? Or Fumble? (at 3:51)

🔠 Google Parent Alphabet: Playing the Name Game? (at 4:12)

🗣 'The Post-Screen Internet': Are More Brands Prepping? Or Procrastinating? (at 4:36)

🍎 Apple: Spit-Shined? Or Bruised? (at 7:27)

🏰 Disney: The #1 Box Office Winner Every Month of the Year? (at 9:55)

😎 AR & VR: Are Brands Getting Their Goggles On? Or Playing 'Wait-and-See'? (at 13:58)

🎬 Video Marketing: ⏩? Or ⏸? (at 16:36)

🍕 Brand Digital Innovation: Delivering? Or in a Ditch? (at 17:36)

🧠 A.I. in 2018: Milestone? Or Reality Check? (at 18:27)

(Approximately 22 min. For US Audiences Only. See SoundCloud's Cookie and Privacy Policies)

Best Social Media Campaigns 2018

All-New: From KFC, to Domino's to Kellogg's and more, the Rick & Rick Awards continue as the Ricks count down the Top 3 Social Media Campaigns 2018.

In This Episode:

🛡 Rick Gets Overprotective

🍗 KFC: Royal FCK-Up (at 1:30)

🍕 Dominos: Pothole Fixer (at 3:45)

🥞 Kellogg's: Eggo/Stranger Things (at 7:12)

🚫 March for Our Lives: Vicious Cycle (at 9:05) 

🍲 KFC: 11 Herbs & Spices (at 11:10)

🤫 Rick Does ASMR for Team Toronto (at 14:00) (Approx. 15:35)

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Best Adverpranks 2018 (Ep 207)

The Rick and Rick Awards continue with our top three picks each for the best adverpranks of 2018. Call them adverpranks, prankvertisements, branded stunts or whatever phrase you want to describe pranks, often captured in hidden-camera videos, that brands produce in order to drive home a point by pulling a fast one on unsuspecting consumers.

(approx. 20 min) (For US audiences - review SoundCloud cookie and privacy policies)

This year's winners include:

 

Students Pull Off a Reverse Prank on McDonald's (at 1:00)

 

 

Dunkin': Foolin' Foodies (at 2:40)

 

 

Diesel: Go for the Fake (at 4:15)

 

 

Range Rover Evoque: Speed Bump (at 7:28)

 

 

WestJet: Uniting Through Traditions (at 10:10)

 

 

Burger King: Whopper Neutrality (at 13:18 )