This is a great discussion with Vasia Apostolaki, an expert in social media advertising. Vasia is an account director at dentsu international in London, with particular experience working with luxury brands.

We discuss why social media advertising is so effective, ethical issues, and areas for future development.

As usual we also discuss some interesting academic research in this area.

You can connect with Vasia on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/apostolaki/

Please also share and subscribe to the podcast, and let us know your feedback at tom.bowden-green@uwe.ac.uk and hanne.knight@plymouth.ac.uk

We sit down with digital marketing consultant, James Vincent, to discuss his expertise in artificial intelligence (AI). James is also a digital marketing lecturer and a PhD student studying the use of artificial intelligence in marketing.

James refers to some AI tools that he is currently working with, as well as reflecting on some of the points from his recent TedX Talk about ethics and AI.

As always, Hanne and I also discuss some of the latest research relating to this week's topic - AI and marketing.

You can reach James via LinkedIn and find out more about his consultancy, Hot Source Creative, here: https://www.hotsourcecreative.com/.

Please also share and subscribe to the podcast, and let us know your feedback at tom.bowden-green@uwe.ac.uk and hanne.knight@plymouth.ac.uk

As always, Hanne and I discuss relevant academic research that caught our attention – this time research looking at how different demographic groups use search engines.

We then chat to Luke Whitaker, Senior SEO Consultant at Organic, about search engine optimisation (SEO). Luke tells us about his passion for educating people about SEO. We also discuss recent changes to the Google algorithm, his advice for smaller businesses trying to attract traffic on search engines, and tools for understanding user behaviour.

We also discuss the role of generative AI in SEO, and whether TikTok is a search engine…

To contact Luke, you can email him (lukewhitaker4@gmail.com) or find him on LinkedIn here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/luke-whitaker-886948b4/

You can also subscribe to Luke's podcast Making Everyone A Little Bit SEO here: https://open.spotify.com/show/1b5mAiXiTIZhIIKghR9hbh