How will VR influence social media?

Outside of artificial intelligence, VR (or virtual reality) has become a Sci-FI creation that is not so fictional anymore. Yet, while everyone is talking about the effects that AI is having on social media and our future, no one seems to be talking about the same for VR. Meanwhile, Meta, Apple, Google, Microsoft and many other companies are creating new VR headsets that allow people to interact (nearly) face to face in a virtual world! If this is a major project that tech companies are pursuing, how might VR influence social media?

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Wendy’s Social Media: Knowing the Difference Between Platforms

A meme from Wendy's social media. The image is a philosopher with the caption, "Asking papa for wendy's money."

Knowing your audience is one of the most important parts of digital communication. If you don’t know who you are talking to, you can’t tailor your message to them. This is something that Wendy’s seems to have a very strong understanding of. Wendy’s uses their social media very differently on each channel that they are on. Let’s take a look at three of them to see what we can learn!

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Temu’s Super Bowl Ad: A $21 Million Hail Mary

A clip from the Temu Super Bowl commercial with a chef surrounded by Temu products such as a $9.99 toaster.

During the Super Bowl, a company called Temu aired the same commercial three times with the catchy tagline, “shop like a billionaire.” While we can’t be sure exactly how much they spent on these advertisements, according to the New York Post, each 30-second time slot for the Super Bowl cost $7 million. That means Temu spent at least $21 million! So what exactly is Temu? How did people react to them? Let’s find out if Temu’s Super Bowl Ad paid off!

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