In our July 2020 episode, we discuss:

Edelman’s Trust Barometer Special Report: Brand Trust in 2020 (3:40)

What Black Lives Matter supporters want brands to do (4:45)

What companies and employees are posting on LinkedIn (5:55)

COVID-19’s impact on marketing (7:00)

Spotlight: Arby’s audio tweets (9:05)

The impact of the Facebook boycott (11:15)

Andy Krall of Brandpoint (18:00)

Reuters Institute Digital News Report 2020 (20:30)

Preventing comms burnout (28:45)

OPENING

CONVERGENCE Summit 2020

QUICK NEWS & QUICK TAKES

Trust Barometer Special Report: Brand Trust in 2020

What Black Lives Matter supporters want brands to do

Companies continue to speak up as the conversation on LinkedIn shifts to injustice

Four points about COVID-19’s impact on marketing

MINNESOTA PRSA EVENT

The Power of Language: Understanding Complexities when Communicating with Diverse Audiences

SPOTLIGHT

Arby’s audio tweets

TALKING POINTS

Facebook’s future keeps getting murkier

Facebook has a PR problem, not a long-term revenue problem

Walmart, McDonalds, and Geico are the latest companies to reportedly pull advertising from Facebook amid a growing boycott

Facebook and Instagram to study racial bias against African Americans, Hispanics on their platforms

Reuters Institute Digital News Report 2020

You can’t do everything so slow yourself down

Microsoft analyzed data on its newly remote workforce

I Started a New Job in a Pandemic

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