Radio Better Offline: David "Shingy" Shing
Better Offline
Cool Zone Media and iHeartPodcasts
4.6 • 688 Ratings
🗓️ 2 April 2025
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Welcome to Radio Better Offline, a tech talk radio show recorded out of iHeartRadio's studio in New York City.
In this episode, Ed Zitron is joined by famed “digital prophet” David “Shingy” Shing, who calls himself a “creative omnivore,” to talk about adtech, being a "digital prophet," and society's attraction to nostalgia.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an IHeart podcast. |
| 0:02.5 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:07.2 | This new year swaps someday with today. |
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| 0:36.7 | Quarzo Media |
| 0:38.0 | Hi, Mimo Ed Zittron. This is Better Offline. We're in IHot Radio Studio in beautiful New York City. |
| 1:02.3 | Today I am joined by a man who in 2014 rose to fame after becoming AOL's digital profit. |
| 1:02.8 | He joins me in the studio today. |
| 1:04.3 | David Ching, best known as Shingy, David. |
| 1:07.0 | Hey Ed, how are you, mate? |
| 1:07.9 | I am fantastic. |
| 1:08.8 | Hell of an intro. |
| 1:09.8 | Oh, yeah. |
| 1:10.4 | This is the most normal show in tech. What are you up to these days, Chingey? Great question. There's three things I'm primarily up to. Okay. I'm out speaking and educating. That's what I'm known for. I also have a creative house. Nice. That started around pandemic times. Okay. What's a creative house too? It does everything from iconography all the way through to strategy, so all the way through the end. What's iconography? You happen to be wearing a brand on your t-shirt right now? Somebody designed that, dude. Okay, so a design thing. Cool. And then the other flip side is a advisory practice. That's cool. And it's institutional advisory as well as small startups, which has really been research for me, which has been amazing. |
| 1:46.4 | Yeah, as a fellow consultant with the podcast, practice. That's cool. And it's institutional advisory as well as small startups, which has |
| 1:44.3 | really been research for me, which has been amazing. Yeah, as a fellow consultant with a podcast, |
| 1:48.8 | it's always good to meet another one. So you, it's been a while since you rose to fame. |
| 1:54.4 | What kind of happened? What kind of happened? Because you, I remember I was in the Bay Area |
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