Travis Wright
VentureBeat
Kansas City, MO, United States
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Nirmal Mehta, emerging tech, and VR vacations for everyone – VB Engage
This week, Travis and Stewart discuss the latest in VR experiences, including a VR vacation simulator -- or VRacation simulator, if you like Travis' made-up words. → Read More
Mike Wikan, the singularity, and the first blockchain smartphone — VB Engage
This week, Travis and Stewart interview Mike Wikan on the future of emerging technologies, what they're going to mean for our daily lives, and how organizations, businesses, and governments will be affected. → Read More
Peggy Anne Salz, mobile futures, and the crazy world of cryptocurrencies – VB Engage
This week, Travis and Stewart discuss the latest in AI-powered apps and show that you don't have to be a massive organization to use artificial intelligence across your product or service. → Read More
Steve Rayson, hacking Alexa, and how AI writes better headlines than you — VB Engage
This week, Travis and Stewart interview BuzzSumo's awesome Steve Rayson, who has analyzed over 100 million headlines to learn what works, what doesn't, and what converts. → Read More
Robert Rose, epic content, and Facebook’s myriad money-making methods – VB Engage
This week, Travis (aka Superman*) and Stewart (aka Deadpool*) talk about AI and the internet of things (still the worst tech term in existence), conversational UI (hello, Ikea!), AI and customer service, and two opposing Facebook stories that are united by one common thread — how the social media leviathan makes its money. → Read More
Erich Joachimsthaler, Amazon Slay, and how computer vision changes everything — VB Engage
This week, Travis and Stewart interview the incredible Erich Joachimsthaler, the founder of Vivaldi, celebrated branding expert, and author. This is one of the most impactful interviews of the year; Erich gives takeaway after takeaway. → Read More
Shaul Olmert, Samsung’s new toys, and how to grow a community of over 80 million — VB Engage
This week, Travis and Stewart interview the amazing Shaul Olmert, who has grown Playbuzz from scratch to an audience of over 80 million. He tells us what it takes to not only make that possible, but maintain the community he helped build. → Read More
Amit Walia, AI smarts, and Snapchat becomes useful again – VB Engage
This week, Travis and Stewart discuss the perils of unlocking your phone with your face. Let's just say that Stewart isn't a fan. It’s a bit creepy. They then talk about Snapchat's newfound usefulness, location-based marketing, and a big raise for a geographical data company. → Read More
Valentin Preobrazhenskiy, ICO fever, and how AI took over martech — VB Engage
In this week’s news, Travis and Stewart talk about AI domination at the MarTech conference in Boston, where it seemingly was the topic on the lips of marketers, speakers, and vendors everywhere. → Read More
Sean Ellis, hacking growth, and why Amazon’s goggles might suck – VB Engage
In this week’s episode, Travis and Stewart talk about virtual reality advertising, Intercom’s new lead generation solution, and Amazon’s smart goggles, which sound like they might be a terrible idea. Or they might be good. → Read More
James Peng, blockchain marketing, and swiping left on ad fraud – VB Engage
In the news this week, Travis and Stewart reveal a new round of funding for an AI customer service solution and get into why retail needs VR to survive and how blockchain technology is coming to marketing. → Read More
Jason Miller, combating online ad fraud, and rock star marketing tactics – VB Engage
This week, Travis and Stewart interview Jason Miller, head of content at LinkedIn, who shares everything we need to know about door handles and marketing, rock ‘n’ roll, and what the future holds for content marketing. He not only drops a succession of marketing knowledge bombs in our collective laps, he also blows our minds with stories of his amazing live music photography. → Read More
Stan Bokov, social finance, and the wedding of Alexa and Cortana – VB Engage
In this week’s episode, Travis and Stewart interview Stan Bokov, who managed to promote his “social network of fintech” to millions of users for free. He explains how this was possible and what lessons were learned along the way. In the news, Alexa and Cortana are getting married. → Read More
Wil Reynolds, VR chicken, and our most R-rated episode ever – VB Engage
This week, Travis and Stewart discuss the bizarre, weird, and wonderful world of KFC's VR "chicken mastery program" and Google's attempts to catch up with Amazon in conversational UI (bolstered by a partnership with Walmart). → Read More
Scott Stratten, unmarketing, and how AI is not optional for retail – VB Engage
Travis and Stewart interview Scott Stratten, the man behind "unmarketing," in this week’s episode of VB Engage, as part of the Unbounce CTA Conference interview series in Vancouver. Scott reveals some of his greatest engagement tips and tells us how AI will affect the marketer's life. → Read More
Mari Smith, Facebook secrets, and Walmart’s creepy AI – VB Engage
In this week’s episode, Travis and Stewart interview the Queen of Facebook, Mari Smith, at Unbounce’s CTAConf. Mari divulges what really works and what doesn’t when it comes to using Facebook for your business. → Read More
Rand Fishkin, super-haves, and the state of SEO – VB Engage
Since this week’s guest is known for his "whiteboard Fridays," we are releasing this post on Friday! In the news this week, Travis and Stewart discuss a new report that suggests marketers are worried about automation taking their jobs. → Read More
Oli Gardner, computer vision, and 102 million reasons AI will change everything — VB Engage
This week, Travis and Stewart discuss the implications of the largest AI funding round in history, let alone one of the biggest Canada has ever seen. They also dig into eBay's foray into computer vision, how image search will be bigger than conversational UI, and what is going on in the world of rewarded video ads. → Read More
Cathy Hackl, mobile advertising fraud, and what works in VR and AR — VB Engage
This week, Travis and Stewart interview the awesome Cathy Hackl, who is helping big brands get real returns from VR and AR, even at this early “Wild West” stage of the game. Cathy schools us in what works, what doesn’t, and what the future holds. → Read More
Rishi Dave, VR ads, and how AI might not replace marketers — VB Engage
This week, Travis and Stewart discuss Google's latest lab project -- VR ads. Apparently, we can't escape ads even in our virtual realities. We also talk about some smart AI-powered video solutions and analytics for smart speakers. → Read More