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August 1, 2011 by Simon Mainwaring

David Shing, Digital Prophet at AOL kindly included me in Adweek and AOL’s  ‘Fueling the Future’ blog series a few weeks ago at the 2011 Cannes International Advertising Festival. He fired off a few questions about what look interesting in the future. He put together a great bunch of people and you can find all the […]

David Shing, Digital Prophet at AOL kindly included me in Adweek and AOL’s  ‘Fueling the Future’ blog series a few weeks ago at the 2011 Cannes International Advertising Festival. He fired off a few questions about what look interesting in the future. He put together a great bunch of people and you can find all the …

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Filed Under: Advertising, Brands, Future, Social, Thinking Tagged With: AOL, branding, Future, gaming, Social media

April 12, 2011 by Simon Mainwaring

I’ve written in the past about the great relief efforts of Zynga to aid the earthquake victims in Haiti. At the time I saw this as a powerful demonstration of what could become a consistent and transformative force for positive change in our world. In the shadow of the tragic consequences of the tsunami in …

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Filed Under: Brands, Causes, Community, Future, Social, Thinking, We First Tagged With: gaming, social responsibility, Virtual goods, We First

December 26, 2010 by Simon Mainwaring

The CEO of Activision, Bobby Kotick, appeared on CNN this week and said something very powerful and portentous: “The audience of ‘Call of Duty‘ is probably greater in terms of size than in any other interactive form of entertainment. If you look at the 500 million people who are on Facebook and the way that …

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Filed Under: Advertising, Brands, Consumers, Future, Social, Technology Tagged With: Future, gaming, media sync, Social media, Technology

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