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2017-05-12

  Ep45 The titans of the old media versus the Goliaths of the new...and Naked IFA Victor Sacks

Have you ever been chuffed with your performance on a date? Good news! You're probably also a natural at financial adviser social media marketing. Or so says Victor Sacks, known as The Naked IFA. Hosts Amy and Michael shoot the breeze with Victor about...
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2017-03-27

  Ep44 - Ros Altmann on campaigning for pensioners' rights...and Google's goof

We've got an exclusive interview with former Pensions Minister Baroness (Ros) Altmann. She told us how the "terribly unhelpful" pensions industry tried to close her down when she campaigned for stricken workers. Baroness Altmann also talked about her u...
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2017-03-10

  Ep43 - money and mental health

Have you ever received a marketing email at 3am? A cynic might think these types of communications are targeted at people who are having trouble sleeping. But maybe the cynic would be right? We asked Katie Evans of the Money and Mental Health Policy In...
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2017-02-24

  Ep42 - Channel 4 News and Facebook at war; the Guardian's woes and Kalpana Fitzpatrick

Ever heard of bacon-flavoured knickers? Neither had money blogger and journalist Kalpana Fitzpatrick - until she was sent some porcine undercrackers by a thoroughly confused PR. She tells the Beer & Bytes team the rather curly tale. Our hosts also ...
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2017-02-10

  Ep41 The robots are coming - and fake facts

The robots are coming...or are they? Doesn't matter! Because we went to the robots in this episode. In a rare outing from the safe dimness of the studio, the Beer & Bytes team emerged blinking at the bright lights of this week's much-talked-about "...
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2017-01-27

  Ep40 Cybercrime and Jamie Campbell of banking app Bud

IBM security chief Caleb Barlow has just delivered a mind-blowing Ted Talk on internet fraud. We pick up the theme, probing the seething, scaly, scummy substratum of the web that is Cybercrime. Our interviewee this week is the delightful, insightful ...
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2017-01-06

  Ep 39 Blogging Your Way To Riches and the Outside Broadcast

WORLD FIRST! Well, a first for Beer & Bytes anyway: we host the show from outdoors. That's right; in the actual cold, where people are! And we talk to people as we do it! The interview this week is great. We mull over the highs and lows of life as ...
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2016-12-23

  Ep38 - Christmas special and Money blogger Andy Webb

Ho, ho, hold on a minute! Can this really be the last episode of 2016? You're damn right - but what a Christmas cracker it is! We've got our ghosts of Financial Services Past, Present and Future, as well as a chat with money blogger extraordinaire Andy...
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2016-12-02

  Ep37 - Black Friday fun, new savings app Mulalo & the Snooper's Charter

Well, you've lucked out this week, podfanz! We look at how retailers handled the tsunami of web traffic that accompanied the biggest Black Friday bonanza of all time. We also caught up the creators of brand new savings app Mulalo - and heard about thei...
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2016-11-18

  Ep 36 - Atom Bank, attack of the Xmas ads and Google AMP

What happens when you mix SnapChat with retail banking? Nope, we had ABSOLUTELY NO IDEA either - until we quizzed Atom Bank's Head of PR and Internal Communications, Katy Ringsdore. We also asked whether AMP would be making sweet music anytime soon. AM...
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