Daniel Porter made his mark in the gaming space with Omgpop and Zynga and now will be tasked with overseeing all of Wme‘s online and mobile initiatives and help identify digital opportunities for clients. Based in the agency’s New York office as head of the Digital Department, he will work closely with Chris Jacquemin, who will continue to focus on digital content for agency clients via channel strategies and online packaging negotiations. Porter oversaw the design and release of Omgpop’s Draw Something, now the third most downloaded game ever, and helped orchestrate Omgpop’s sale to Zynga in 2012; most recently he was VP and General Manager of Zynga New York. His previous titles include Svp Corporate Development for Richard Branson’s Virgin Group, and he also helped develop TicketWeb, an online ticketing company eventually sold to Ticketmaster. Porter is the founder of the entrepreneurial organization Inside Startups...
- 9/3/2013
- by PATRICK HIPES, Managing Editor
- Deadline TV
MTV has picked up broadcast rights to Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (Yay, Wallace!) and MacGruber (groan) starting in 2012, sometime around the end of the world. I remain fascinated to see what the network I remember launching with music turns into over the next few years.
Rhys Ifans has been signed to play the villain in the Spider Man reboot. There is no word on which villain he’s playing, but with a Welsh villain and mostly-Brit Andrew Garfield as Spidey, I’m wondering if they’ll even bother setting the movie in New York.
Say what you will about these one-word movie quotes, but most of them have a lot of extra letters to make them memorable. Which one is still in your daily lexicon?
So President Obama had a weird day yesterday. First someone threw a book at him (at least it wasn’t a shoe). Then Juan...
Rhys Ifans has been signed to play the villain in the Spider Man reboot. There is no word on which villain he’s playing, but with a Welsh villain and mostly-Brit Andrew Garfield as Spidey, I’m wondering if they’ll even bother setting the movie in New York.
Say what you will about these one-word movie quotes, but most of them have a lot of extra letters to make them memorable. Which one is still in your daily lexicon?
So President Obama had a weird day yesterday. First someone threw a book at him (at least it wasn’t a shoe). Then Juan...
- 10/12/2010
- by Ed Kennedy
- The Backlot
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