Right About Now with Ryan Alford - Weekly News Update 1.29.21: Reddit and GameStop Rock Stock Market; Coca-Cola Delivering Coffee with Drones; TikTok Live Stream Tailgate; Budweiser Covid Initiative

Episode Date: January 29, 2021

Welcome to this week's news episode! We have a lot of topics for you today. Host Ryan Alford and co-host Reiley Clark break down some of the week's biggest marketing headlines. Links to The Radcast merchandise is in the episode notes below. The Stock Market and what happened with GameStop.Walmart working towards being a top 10 ad seller.Walmart and Coca Cola partner to deliver coffee to  single family homes via drones.TikTok Tailgate.Budweiser isn't making their traditional commercial debut.Click here to view some rad gear!If you enjoyed this episode, leave us a review on Apple Podcasts. We love to hear from you! | Do you want to hear more from our host? - Give him a follow @ryanalford on Instagram. | The Radcast is a product of @radical_results | #theradcast #radicalmarketingresults If you enjoyed this episode and want to learn more, join Ryan’s newsletter https://ryanalford.com/newsletter/ to get Ferrari level advice daily for FREE.  Learn how to build a 7 figure business from your personal brand by signing up for a FREE introduction to personal branding https://ryanalford.com/personalbranding.  Learn more by visiting our website at www.ryanisright.comSubscribe to our YouTube channel  www.youtube.com/@RightAboutNowwithRyanAlford. 

you're listening to the latest radcast news update here's ryan and riley hey guys what's up welcome to the latest edition of the radcast it's friday january 29th 2021 and i hope you are doing well listening to us on apple spotify pand, wherever you are in the world, whatever platform you're on, we're glad to have you here on a Friday. And as always, I'm joined by Miss Riley Clark. Hello. How are you today? Doing well, Riley. It's good to be on here. Riley's both our producer and my cohort here on Friday News Edition. So it's good to have you, Riley. And hopefully you purchased GameStop stock on Monday and not today on Friday.

I'm hoping you cashed in. You sold and cashed in. No, I was the smart one that did it months ago when I had the insider trading scoop about it. And I went ahead and did all of this already. So I was that person that was way ahead of the game. this is crazy this is absolutely crazy this is happening but super cool that it's happening too I love the memes that are coming from this they're absolutely making my heart filled with joy it's quite funny you know we're uh we're living in times where uh the suits are and the uh if you've got something to hide or something, it's coming out.

Seriously. It's a little bit of cancel culture, but more just we're going to beat the man. Absolutely. And it's more of people just being upset and frustrated that higher level people can do this, so why can't anyone else do this? And that's a whole different dynamic that's come into play. And here we are. Exactly. I'm just, I'm just a little mad that, uh, my Robin hood account isn't looking better than it is because I didn't get on this early. I don't know. I just, I'm doing my day job and

it's not stock trading, but, uh, I know, I feel like we get get we get cheat codes though because one of the guys that work in the office with us he's into stock trading so sometimes i feel like especially this week everyone's been at his desk have you noticed that everyone's like asking him what's going on what should i do i did notice before we started this it seems to be headed the other way so it seems to be catching back up but i'm sure there it made a few millionaires if anyone you know bought and sold quickly or i don't know how it all works other than uh the big guys being pissed because the way they normally normally manipulate the market uh didn't seem to be working out uh so we'll see how it goes but it's been a good week

uh we had a great guest on tuesday Will Ahmed of Whoop Fitness Trackers, the most advanced fitness tracker in the world, I dare say, was really great. And as I sit here and stare at mine and every time I look down at mine, it's like accountability tool. It's like I look at it and I go,

all right, what's my resting heart rate, my HRV. I need to get my app out and track my sleep. But, you know, Will was awesome. And if you haven't listened to that episode, definitely go check it out. Yeah, that was a really cool episode. There's a lot that Whoop is doing as a brand and then just what it's doing for a health perspective, especially with the whole COVID piece. I know we talked about this last week, but if you haven't gotten a chance to listen to the episode,

he really goes into that and how it's supposed to help track your respiratory rates and all that kind of stuff and great stuff. So we're excited for that episode. And then Tuesday's episode, we have a release with just talking about Clubhouse, which super timely conversation. And that will be a great episode. And that will come out on Tuesday of next week. Yeah. So Mike Cam came on. He was the guy that we've started following on Clubhouse Active. He's into title. He's in title insurance, which I learned more about than I ever have. But he's a real dynamic guy and fun.

We talked it up about the opportunity of Clubhouse. And I am on the fence about where this is going long term. I feel like short term, you should be there. You should be on it. We're on it. We're learning from it. There's a lot of network to be done, but I think it might be a fad.

I'm not sure. I just kind of, my crystal ball thinks that maybe people won't be doing seven hours of Clubhouse in a year. But maybe, I don't know. It's very time consuming. It's a great point because it is a very time consuming thing, it's super cool the networking capabilities and obviously

who you're there's so many real people in there now and the quality is good still i think it might get watered down as more people get on but when you can get on any forum and not know and grant cardone or gary v or whoever like guys that you aren't normally going to have direct talking access to, you know, and, and especially if you've got a startup or an idea or something that you can soundboard, I see the validity of the channel,

but it just seems like quite the investment of time that, that maybe that it might be waning as just as the quality goes down, which I think it might. And so we'll see and that's lest me be I'm more of a take advantage of why you can right I would get on it now and see where it goes but it's gonna be interesting when they start monetizing and you have to pay to get into rooms it's gonna be like one room's pay one room's not like no one's gonna want to pay so people are gonna give it away I don't know i think it might

it has the opportunity to be huge absolutely but i think it has the opportunity to be a fad too and i don't know we'll see where it goes but it's fun and a great episode on tuesday with my cam absolutely and then as far as other things going on around the company we have merchandise for the radcast and we'll link those in the show notes. So if you want some really cool Rad gear, we have a bunch of stuff for you that's super cool. If you're watching the video, you see a t-shirt now, game-changing content. Yes. A lot of fun stuff playing off the notion of we are a marketing and advertising podcast,

so we've got some fun stuff related to that. So if you're in the ad game or in the marketing business business it's you should relate to it if not it just looks cool so uh you know we'll uh we'll keep linking to some of that as we get it out on ryanofford.com and theradcast.com which we are updating the website right now radcast websites taking a revamp which is going to really bring together all of the content so that when you go into an episode, you get to see the video, the clips, everything's kind of tied together, the audio, the video, the clips, dare say maybe even blog from it, written content from the piece, which will be probably a secondary phase of that. But we'll have all the merchandise there, lots of stuff going on with it.

And, you know, we've had some exciting things going on at Radical. We've got a new capability to date, digital marketing, you know, doing targeting, things like that. It's been audience-based that you do for interest or behaviors when you're targeting people online, especially when you're doing acquisition growth, not first party or CRM type growth. But you're kind of limited if you're on Facebook or programmatic or any of these platforms. You have to go after them based off of interest or things like that. But you don't really know where they are in the purchase cycle if they're ready to make a purchase. Or you might be interested in shoes.

Like I'm interested in boots. And you can find people that are interested in shoes. Like I'm interested in boots. And you can find people that are interested in fashion. But that doesn't mean that they're necessarily interested today because you don't know where they are. And historically, search marketing, pay-per-click, where you enter a keyword, boots for sale near me, or fashion boots, or Ralph Lauren Lauren boots or Louis Vuitton boots whatever that might be that was really the only way to get that intent

data someone that's actively in market was pretty much relegated to search or pay-per-click highly competitive it's expensive but what we now have the capability to do with a data source that we now have is to retarget people that do searches so that we can actually hit them anywhere on the internet, Facebook, connected TV, in the feed of a website they're streaming through. So if they've just, if they've done a search for Louis Vuitton boots, we can retarget them across the internet. And so that has really democratized that search data, really up and coming advanced feature. And so that's been democratized that search data, really up-and-coming advanced feature.

And so that's been exciting. We're rolling it out for a few clients and really excited for the opportunities because it should really increase sales and purchase behavior for a lot of our clients. That's super cool. Yeah. It's exciting.

Techie. It's fun. It's kind of whiz-bang stuff, but I i like that stuff and we're having fun with it so uh it'll be cool as we roll it out for more and more clients yeah no super cool yeah so i think that's everything but here's riley with the news here is the radcast news so today's first topic is walmart is trying to get the game as the top, in the top 10 ad seller, I should say. You totally saw this article. I'd love for you to take it away and share kind of where this came from.

Well, no different than, if you think about Amazon now, many, some people may know this or don't know this, but you think of Amazon being the place where you buy a ton of stuff. They've aggregated all these things. They've made it super easy. But Amazon is actually one of the largest ad platforms in the country now because people that are selling on Amazon are buying ads to be placed when you do searches. Right. So when you do those searches, we'll stick with the boots analogy since I've been on the boots thing.

It's appropriate. It's winter. I do a boot search to get high up in those listings is an algorithm of sorts but it's also with ad placement so you buy to be a part of that you run ads across the amazon network there's a lot of different monetization they do with ad selling well walmart's getting into that game with all the data that they have with between e-commerce in-store shopper data and they're creating their own platform called walmart connect so that you can run ads across their in-store screens because if you go to a store now there's actually screens throughout the store you've got little kiosk screens you've got you go up to a product that you light an in- cap screen there's there's screens throughout the door and at the shopping aisle when you get to the to uh check out there'll

be little videos playing on different things and so you can buy ads if you're selling product within the store you can you can run ads i guess you can run ads whether you're in the store or not but throughout all that ad network and then it's data source. They have so much data on so many customers. They're going to use that in an ad in a consumer friendly way. A lot of the privacy rules will be intact. So I'm sure they're in touch with all of those guidelines, especially with cookies going away and different things, but they're going to be a huge player in the ad space game,

just based on their scale volume. And they're partnering with one of the largest kind of dsp aggregators so it's going to be big news for the digital world and yet another place and uh the big get bigger no right well it's i mean we're going to continue talking about walmart here because coca-cola is starting an initiative as well where they are teaming up with well they're partnering i should say with walmart and they're sending drones out and they did this in coffee county georgia which i think is very funny very appropriate for what coca-cola was the product they're promoting anyway they're sending drones from this walmart and then taking the new product to you you know, places and homes, single family homes in this county in Georgia. And great initiative. I kind of like this the way the the way the guy was making this sound.

It's like a dairy free product. And so a lot of the ready to drink coffees are dairy based or they have too much sugar or whatever it is. So this is a really cool thing that I kind of am excited to try, although I just don't know how I really cool thing that I kind of am excited to try although I just don't know how I really feel about that coke and coffee combination I know that's that's one of odd like between the the gimmick of the drone and coffee and coke not I like coke I mean I'm a coke zero guy when I do drink it just because I don't want the calories but I love I mean a few things I like more than a good Coke Zero.

And if I'm splurging, a good Coca-Cola Classic. It's hard to beat a Coke. But coffee and Coke don't necessarily match in my brain of taste. But, you know, we'll see. Hopefully it does better than Coke Energy. And the whole drone thing, how long have they been talking about drones delivering goods to your door? I know. It's been several years.

So this feels, you know, like a PR gimmick, which fine. We're all good for a good PR gimmick that drives advertising and marketing. Not going to slap the hand that feeds us here. We're also known for a good awareness gimmick. So not knocking it, but it's like, okay, all right. The drone and coffee Coke. It's going to be a no for me dog on a coffee Coke, but maybe they know something I don't there.

They have a product to develop the teams much smarter than us. How about this? I'll let you know how it tastes and then we can go from there. Cause I know I'm going to have to try this, especially if there's no dairy in this, because this is just going to be something I'm such a big coffee drinker. I'm going to have to have to get on this one nobody's drank coke energy either like they talked about it they was on the super bowl last year spending how much and now it's like i've noticed here's how i've

known i'm an energy drink guy and i go to the gas station and i've got my normal players in line and i go to the same i go to the same gas station and i'm getting mine. And I've noticed the diminishing role of Coke energy on the energy drink aisle. It was last year about this time. Oh, man. They must have paid for highest placement. It was right there in the center of where my aisle. I didn't buy it. I tasted it once and it was like, no thanks, dog.

But it was right there in my eye. It slowly went down the rack and now it's positioned like above the chocolate milks like it's it's kind of it's on the uh it's on the you know the land of misfit toys of energy drinks like that's insane and i've noticed well we all know the story of the island of Misfit Toys, though. They came back. Yeah, well, and it's officially for sale at Dollar Tree. Dollar Tree. Dollar Tree is where products go to die. And if Coke's energy is for sale at Dollar Tree, you're in trouble.

So that means they're already closing it out. I think it's going bye-bye. So we'll see if Coke Coffee can stick around a little longer well yeah i hope it can because if it's in the super bowl it might be uh a kiss of death i don't know well uh speaking of the super bowl so tiktok the nfl recruited miley cyrus to be a part of a TikTok tailgate, which, you know, that just sounds awesome. And I would love to make that a new like theater lineup, what you have to say before you start your theater classes, but TikTok tailgate. TikTok tailgate. Triple Ts. Miley Cyrus is going to be delivering exclusive video content that's going to be streamed live for a two-hour event on TikTok.

So it's going to obviously go through CBS as well, since that's where the game will be broadcast from. But the content that's coming on TikTok is just exclusive to TikTok. Other creators will be involved, and it'll be a super cool initiative. And obviously, she's promoting Plastic Hearts, which came out in november so that's super cool she's doing all that exactly is it maybe i don't know i know we skim some of these things we catch the headlines we want to share it right right right do we know what exactly is she doing in the tailgate do we know i think it's something that we'll find out when it happens okay so they're keeping some of it secret exactly what what the tiktok tailgate molly cyrus because that could go a lot of different directions with molly cyrus like that's why she's got a wild like she's a wild child like i remember

like when her that album came out and like just the artwork of her like uh wrecking ball and like i mean she can come come hard or come soft like she's got a lot of uh depth to her i would dare say yes um being an actress first and foremost, right? Hannah Montana. Hannah Montana. I mean, you know, I mean, I'm not saying she won any Emmys or anything, but, you know, someone's going,

oh, but she did win the Child Guilds Award. Whatever. Yeah, I actually think she, I'll be honest, I will be that person this time. I actually do think she's won a couple, like that Kids' Choice Awards, like, you know, that kind of stuff. I remember the show a little bit from like, like it was a very big, I think she was won a couple like that kids choice awards like you know that kind of stuff i remember the show a little bit from like like there's a very big i think she was kind of

going off like when my very youngest was in not totally in that so it's like really brief okay i thought she was okay like some of these guys are not good you know but she's pretty well rounded in her her acting and she's a good singer i mean i like her pop stuff i like wrecking ball like when it came out i like poppy stuff oh for sure and i liked her rendition of zombie that came out a couple months ago when she did the live performance to help musicians that was incredible and if you have not heard her sing that song oh my gosh i mean her voice is like perfect for that song she's a great singer hey look bill look, Billy Ray Cyrus is her dad. I mean, you know, achy, breaky heart.

And Noah Cyrus is her sister. And Noah Cyrus does incredible work too. They're both very musical and sanely talented. I was a little surprised. She was off my radar. And I'm a 43-year-old dude with four boys. It doesn't mean she's not pop culture anymore. She's probably always going to be pop culture,

but like she was off my radar of visibility. So I was like, is she still, I guess she'll always be a thing, but I didn't know if, you know, I saw this and like her, what's her relevance now. And I guess according to you, she's still, she's still banging. She's still relevant. She's still out there and kicking and just being her bad- so i'm just i'm here for that um and then our last uh topic for today budweiser is skipping their ad portion of the game they're not doing like the traditional ad

but they do have an initiative called the bigger picture and it's a short documentary basically about the frontline workers who have received the vaccine and just their effort. Great. Obviously, for a lot of reasons, it's a great spot because you're obviously addressing the seriousness of COVID. And you're also giving a big thank you from Budweiser to all the heroes that are on our day. Yeah, you're talking millions of dollars. They probably had at least two spots going. So that's probably $10, $15 million at least.

That's no small donation. And it's a brilliant brand play from my standpoint. Budweiser has been a mainstay in the Super Bowl since forever. 37 years. Yeah. And so it's, and if there's ever a year, you know, it's, again, I think viewership will be where it normally is. So it's like, but to get this PR play and it's the right time, the right place, it feels really smart to me for them.

And I'm sure, you know, they don't need anyone else kind of validating that. But I think it just feels right. And it's both, yeah, it's a self-serving from a standpoint of recognition, but at the same time, this isn't like it's $10,000. I mean, this is $10, $15 million at least that they're giving for the impressions that they get. So I know there's a PR expert, someone on their team is doing this math, what the impressions they're getting

from the PR play versus what they get from Super Bowl. And look, the Super Bowl is ridiculous, the amount of volume you get and impressions and scale and reach and all those media things. But I think well played, well played Bud Weiser. Oh yeah, for sure, for sure.

No, but those are our topics for this week. And, again, we just want to definitely say thank you to everyone who's listening. It means a lot to have your listeners and just everything you all are doing for us. So we'll definitely get some merch out to you guys. And, look, it'll be in the episode notes, so definitely make sure to check it out there. Yeah, we'll do some giveaways as well. Absolutely. We've got some samples in, and we're making sure we're happy with everything that we put together.

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