AOL, that relic of a bygone age, has in its employ a person, Shingy, whose job title is as future-winning as it gets: “Digital Prophet.” The existence of Shingy—“real” name David Shing—has been an ...
About five minutes before I met David Shing in the Sheraton hotel bar in Austin, Texas, his image was going viral through my Twitter feed. Again. For the second time in about a month. I was catching ...
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 profile of ...
Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Next, Shingy stopped by the office of Erika Nardini, the chief marketing officer of AOL Advertising, and handed ...
AOL and Co are so desperate for magical thinking that they’ll pay six figures to a man best known for his hair and doodles There are two kinds of prophets: Cassandras and charlatans. This is important ...
Shingy, né David Shingy, has relinquished his role as digital prophet of AOL and Verizon Media, after 12 years with the company. The anime-maned futurist announced the departure in a LinkedIn note. “I ...
David Shing, aka Shingy, is employed by AOL as their resident ‘digital prophet’. He flies around the world and goes to conferences. But what else does he do? Who is Shingy? Shingy is David Shing, an ...
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AOL CEO Tim Armstrong was interviewed onstage today at Business Insider’s Ignition conference, and sure, he touched on the ongoing speculation about a merger with Yahoo, as well as the company’s ...