Exploring the big stories for the week at the intersection of local business & marketing across the spectrum of search, social and commerce. With Greg Sterling, Mike Blumenthal & David Mihm.
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Welcome to the Digital Velocity Podcast...a podcast covering the intersection between strategy, digital marketing, and emerging trends impacting each of us. Hosts Erik Martinez, Executive Vice-President of Blue Tangerine, and Tim Curtis, President and CEO of CohereOne, bring you a wealth of marketing experience along with their unique prospectives. Join them each week as they interview industry veterans to dive into the best hard-hitting analysis of industry news and critical topics facing b ...
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Background Briefing goes far beyond the headlines and deep under the radar to bring forward truths unheard elsewhere in American media. Background Briefing features international and national news, expert guests, policymakers, and critics offering analysis and insight on national security, foreign and domestic policy, political, cultural, and social issues. backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
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Lakewood, N.J. was once a small, quaint resort town nestled away on the tip of Ocean County. Over the years its unprecedented growth resulted in it evolving into the largest hub of Torah Jewry as we know it today. Join Meir for fascinating conversations with individuals whom with great effort transformed Lakewood from just a small town… into Our Town!
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September 24, 2025 - Richard Parker | George Beebe | Chris Whipple
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1:00:19Could Our Democracy Be Over Before We Get to Vote in 2026? | Zelensky Warns the World is "in the Most Destructive Arms Race in History" | Harris' Book Reminds Us That Biden's Inner Circle Are Responsible For the Catastrophic Return of Trumpbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.socialfacebook.c…
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September 23, 2025 - Dulcie Leimbach | Arthur Caplan | Maha Nassar
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57:59September 23, 2025 - Dulcie Leimbach | Arthur Caplan | Maha Nassar Trump Trashes the Countries of the World at the UN in Front of the World's Leaders | The Deadly Consequences of Trump's Lies and Quackery As He Announces a "Cure" For Autism | At the UN Today Trump's Call to End the Wars in Ukraine and Gaza Repeats an Empty Promise backgroundbriefin…
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September 22, 2025 - Ahmed Moor | Andre Pagliarini | Will Bunch
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1:02:06Does Recognizing Palestine Create an Illusion of Action to End the Agony in Gaza? | Massive Demonstrations Across Brazil Against Pardoning Bolsonaro and How We Should Have Jailed Trump After His Coup Attempt | Trump Spews Hatred at Charlie Kirk's Memorial After Kirk's Widow Invokes Her Christian Faith To Forgive Her Husband's Murderer backgroundbri…
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September 21, 2025 - Jacob Heilbrunn | James Henry
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57:17The Trump Coup Underway and His Assault on the First Amendment | The Real Epstein Files Story in the 7,000 + SARS Files at Treasury and the Central Role of Robert Maxwell and His Depraved Daughter backgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.socialfacebook.com/ianmastersmedia…
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September 18, 2025 - William Cohan | Craig Aaron | Aziz Huq
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1:01:23The Richest Man in the World, Trump's Buddy Larry Ellison, Will Soon Own Most of the Media and We Will Have Government TV and Wall-to-Wall Fox News | Trump's MAGA Apparatchik Brendon Carr Uses Charlie Kirk to Kill Free Speech | Time For Jimmy Kimmel to Sue the Trump Administrationbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/prof…
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Interview with Barry Schwartz: Review Ransom, The State of the Open Web, and the Implications of AI on Search Interfaces
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49:32Send us a text In this episode, Greg Sterling, Mike Blumenthal, and Barry Schwartz discuss various pressing topics in the digital marketing landscape, including the rise of local review ransom schemes, the ongoing debate about the state of the open web, and the implications of AI on search interfaces. They explore how Google's recent changes and th…
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September 17, 2025 - Dean Baker | Ben Freeman | Jonathan Alter
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1:01:08September 17, 2025 - Dean Baker | Ben Freeman | Jonathan Alter by Ian MastersBy Ian Masters
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September 16, 2025 - Gil Duran | Scott Horton | Nizar Farsakh
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1:01:27Peter Thiel's Obsession With the Antichrist Brings Techno-Fascism and Christo-Fascism Together | The Senate Grills the Unqualified and Incompetent Kash Patel as the FBI's Top Talent is Purged | Israel Invades Gaza City as a UN Report Concludes Israel is Commititng Genocide in Gaza backgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/pro…
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Episode 93: Strategic Data Analysis in the Age of AI with Ginger Grant
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49:02In Episode 93 of the Digital Velocity Podcast, Erik Martinez sits down with Ginger Grant, a seasoned data strategist, to explore how artificial intelligence and machine learning are reshaping the fundamentals of business analysis and decision-making. Ginger shares her unique perspective on the crucial distinctions between generative AI and machine …
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September 15, 2025 - Ben Burgis | Reverend Billy | Stephen Biddle
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1:02:39Ben Burgis Who Debated Charlie Kirk on "Democratic Socialism vs. Conservative Populism" | Echoes of the 60's and 70's From Protest Songs Against Trump and MAGA Fascism | An Assessment of the Military Standoff Between Russia and Ukrainebackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.socialfacebook.com/ia…
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September 14, 2025 - Kim Lane Scheppele | Jared Holt | Reality Winner
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1:03:01Trump and His Co-President Stephen Miller Declare War on the Democratic Party Which Miller Calls "A Domestic Terrorism Organization" | Charlie Kirk's Christian Nationalism is Embraced by the Shadow Rulers J.D. Vance, Mike Johnson and Russ Vought | Reality Winner Got 5 Years in Prison While Trump Got a Free Pass From a Judge he Owns For Far, Far Wor…
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September 11, 2025 - Barbara F. Walter | Thomas Mockaitis | Bruce Cumings
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1:05:51September 11, 2025 - Barbara F. Walter | Thomas Mockaitis | Bruce Cumings by Ian MastersBy Ian Masters
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September 10, 2025 - Jonathan Katz | Harold Meyerson | Juan Cole
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1:05:39Putin Tests the NATO Alliance With a Drone Incursion Into Poland | Why Are Democratic Leaders Avoiding Popular And Promising Candidates Like Mamdani and Maine's Oysterman? | Qatar Was Not Warned About the Israeli Attack Which Happened at 3.46 Because the US Told Them About it 10 Minutes Later at 3.56 backgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmast…
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Google’s Action Links Crackdown, The “Declining” Open Web, and Siri + Gemini
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33:39Send us a text We discuss Google’s new guidelines for Business Profile action links, the company’s conflicting statements about the health of the open web in an antitrust case, and Apple’s rumored partnership with Google’s Gemini to power Siri. Together, these stories highlight Google’s tightening grip on local businesses, the shifting economics of…
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With a Sept. 30 Gov Shutdown Looming, Do the Dems Get Blamed or Do They Let the Republicans Own it?
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19:53With a Sept. 30 Gov Shutdown Looming, Do the Dems Get Blamed or Do They Let the Republicans Own it? by Ian MastersBy Ian Masters
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September 9, 2025 - Daoud Kuttab | Olga Luatman | Bill Scher
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1:06:14With a September 30 Government Shutdown Looming, Do the Democrats Get Blamed or Do They Walk Away and Let the Republicans Own it Since They Don't Negotiate in Good Faith? | Did the US Allow Israel to Strike an Allied Country That Hosts the Biggest US Base in the Middle East? | The US Tells the Europeans We Will No Longer Work With Them Against Russ…
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Did the US Allow Israel to Strike an Allied Country That Hosts the Biggest US Base in the ME?
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14:54Did the US Allow Israel to Strike an Allied Country That Hosts the Biggest US Base in the ME? by Ian MastersBy Ian Masters
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The US Tells the Europeans We Will No Longer Work With Them Against Disinformation Warfare
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26:08The US Tells the Europeans We Will No Longer Work With Them Against Disinformation Warfare by Ian MastersBy Ian Masters
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September 8, 2025 - Anne Nelson | Bruce Fein | Rick Perlstein
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1:01:41A Major TV Network Caves Again, Censoring Trump Protests at the US Open Men's Tennis Final | The Growing Rift Between the Supreme Court and the Lower Courts | A Chicagoan Manning the Barricades Ahead of Trump's "Invasion" in His War on Chicagobackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.socialfaceboo…
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Episode 92: Leading with AI — Strategy, Trust & Governance with Timothy Peterson
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51:04In Episode 92 of the Digital Velocity Podcast, Erik Martinez talks with Timothy Peterson—an executive leader with 25+ years across retail, e‑commerce, data, and operations—about how to integrate artificial intelligence thoughtfully and profitably. Drawing on roles from Bloomingdale’s and Pottery Barn to CPG business intelligence and today’s fractio…
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September 7, 2025 - Miguel Tinker Salas | Aram Shabanian | Brette Steele
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58:25Trump Escalates Threats Against Venezuela as Rubio Calls For a Regional Latin American Campaign of Extrajudicial Killings | The Weak and Cynical Trump Plans For Defending Ukraine In a Possible Deal With Putin | The Consequence of DHS Violence Prevention Funding Cuts to Minnesota Just Ahead of the Minneapolis Mass Shooting of Kids on Their First Day…
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AI Overviews in Local: When & Where, DOJ Google Remedies (?), and an SMB GBP Case Study
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33:05Send us a text We dig into when/where Google’s AI Overviews (AIOs) appear in local, how people actually split tasks across Google vs. ChatGPT, what the DOJ’s remedies mean for defaults, and a fresh case where a brand-new local biz triggered an AIO—plus practical takeaways. Subscribe to our newsletters and other content at https://www.nearmedia.co/s…
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The Moral and Strategic Collapse of US Policy in the Middle East
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18:11September 4, 2025 - Jonathan Guyer backgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.socialfacebook.com/ianmastersmediaBy Ian Masters
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September 4, 2025 - Thomas Bollyky | Juliegrace Brufke | Jonathan Guyer
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1:03:08RFK Jr. Grilled by Senate Democrats Who Want him Fired and Republicans He Lied To | A Congressional Reporter on the Women Abused And Trafficked by Epstein and Maxwell as Trump, the Doj and the House Speaker Fight to Keep the Epstein Files From the Public | The Moral and Strategic Collapse of US Policy in the Middle East backgroundbriefing.org/donat…
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September 3, 2025 - Lisa Graves | David Smilde | Dr. Ariel Cohen
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1:01:44With Trump's DoJ and House Republicans on the Side of a Depraved Socialite Instead of the Victims of Her Sex Trafficking, Maxwell's Survivors Had to Speak in Front of the Capitol Today | Is Trump Cooking Up a Nice Little War to Take Out Maduro as a Distraction From Epstein? | ICE's Shameful Deportation of Asylum Seekers Back to Russian Torture and …
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September 2, 2025 - Sasha Abramsky | Orville Schell | Eric Blanc
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1:04:41A Federal Court Rules That Trump and Hegseth Violated the Posse Comitatus Act and That Trump is Creating a National Police Force With Him As Its Chief | Does Xi Jinping Command the World Stage Because of His Diplomatic Skills or Because of Trump's Blundering Lack of Diplomacy? | A Mayor Mamdani Will Need A Mass Movement Behind Him To Overcome an Es…
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September 1, 2025 - Steven Greenhouse | Sylvia Allegretto | Michael Kazin
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1:02:10The State of Working America Under Assault From Trump and Project 2025 | How Trump and Project 2025 Have Turbocharged the Plutocratic Takeover of American Democracy | The History of Labor Day As Opposed to May Day That Others Celebratebackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.socialfacebook.com/ia…
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August 31, 2025 - Karen Greenberg | Lawrence Gostin | Seth Harp
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1:02:19Trump, Hegseth, Ratcliffe, Gabbard, Patel, Bongino and Noem Might as Well be Working For Putin and Xi as They Destroy Our National Security | How the Conspiratorial Mindset of an Entitled Wastrel From a Famous American Political Dynasty is Collapsing America's Public Health | The Blowback at Home From America's Killing Machine in the War on Terrorb…
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