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The World's Most Watched TV Show Will Be Hosted By Artificial Intelligences

Forbes Social Media

For the first time, AI-powered digital avatars will host one of the world’s biggest TV broadcasts – The Chinese New Year’s Gala. The hosts are digital twins of real people, that look and sound just like them, but only exist digitally.

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How Social Media and Smartphones Breed a Petri Dish of Negativity

Convince & Convert

It’s happening at McDonald’s, too, despite their major commitment to real-time customer service via social media (listen to the Social Pros interview with their social media head Rick Wion for details). If nothing else, social media and always-on Internet access has made us all passive aggressive.

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Fuze CMO on Why Great Leadership Starts with Trust

Oktopost

Under Eric’s leadership, the company worked on advertising campaigns with brands including Nike, Toyota, and Apple and motion pictures including Iron Man, Hunger Games, and Avatar. Host Jennifer Gutman and her guests are a mixture of renowned marketing and sales leaders from B2B marketing organizations around the globe.

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Are Social Causes a One Click Pony?

Convince & Convert

Social Media Controversies Addressed, Fresh Each Week. In this edition of The Baer Facts, I talk with Kyle Lacy of ExactTarget about thousands of Facebook and Twitter users temporarily changing their avatars in support of marriage equality , currently being debated by the United States Supreme Court.

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Metaverse dangers: How to protect brands from the dark side

Sprout Social

According to a Sprout survey of 300 marketers responsible for their brands social media strategy, 64% cite data, privacy and brand safety as concerns within the metaverse. Someone could hack into an account to access personal messages, bank information, photos, avatars, NFTs and other digital assets.

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Could Buyer Personas be Your Secret Weapon for More Leads and Sales with Social Media?

Pam Moore

Executing your social media strategy is similar in that it's easy to skip to the easy parts…the posting on Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, Twitter etc. Just because you see others wasting time 24/7 trying to become social media rich and famous, doesn't mean that is where your focus should be. Here's the thing.

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What Is an NFT? 2023 Cheat Sheet for Marketers

Hootsuite

Executives at most popular social media platforms seem to think so. OpenSea limits the file size to 100mb, but you can link out to an externally hosted file if yours is larger. For example, avatar NFTs usually list out what makes each avatar unique, such as eye color, hair, mood, etc. Try it free today.

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