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Now Shingy says he’s done with that role. “We inhabit a pivotal time at which much is at stake in how we practice media and marketing,” he wrote in his goodbye letter .
I heard Shingy speak yesterday. If you don't know (lucky!), Shingy is AOL's "digital prophet," a bullshit title that Shingy—aka David Shing—himself acknowledges is bullshit, but is also very ...
Shingy is AOL’s “muse” because he embodies the apparent opposite of AOL’s brand—fusty, outmoded, dependent on The Olds for clicks and traffic. But look deeper.
Shingy is paid a six-figure salary for helping AOL figure out how it can succeed in its markets as technology advances, according to a profile of Shingy in November in the New Yorker magazine.
This guy Shingy has the world’s best job. AOL pays him a six-figure salary to go around being Stefon from Saturday Night Live by way of Richard Simmons. From the New Yorker‘s short, acid ...
Shingy tells the audience that the most important medium of the day — “the one thing that’s hot, hot, hot, if you want to talk about trends, dude” — is the notification tray on his phone.
Shingy later asked me if I thought he should change his title since that seems to be the source of so much criticism. I told him that's up to him and Tim Armstrong, AOL's CEO.
Shingy the Poo.” In a surprisingly candid piece in the New Yorker , AOL’s own Digital Prophet, David Shing AKA Shingy AKA Miley Scissorhands described, with utmost sincerity, a bear wearing a ...
Shingy is AOL’s “digital prophet,” a tastemaker and thought-leader within the company whose full-time job is to rally employees around the same set of best practices. In his own words ...
From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...
Even Shingy got tripped up by the company’s self-reported numbers when he falsely equated the large monthly usership of Spark AR to those experimenting with Meta’s Quest VR headsets.