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 effective ...

Shingy on the wrecking ball. About five minutes before I met David Shing in the Sheraton hotel bar in Austin, Texas, his image was going viral through my T witter feed. Again. For the second time in ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 kicked off his presentation by poking fun at some of the very innovations that the industry is obsessed with, namely virtual reality. He discussed how brands who ask people to jump through ...

Among the questions arising from Verizon Communications Inc.’s plan to buy AOL Inc. is what will happen to “Shingy”? Shingy is David Shing, an eccentric Australian whose title is AOL’s digital prophet ...

When news breaks, you need to understand what actually matters — and what to do about it. At Vox, our mission to help you make sense of the world has never been more vital. But we can’t do it on our ...

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 ...