Magazine Media’s Most Trusted Source Since 1947 October 26, 2015 | Vol. 68 No. 41 Read more at: minonline.com Steve Smith's Eye on Innovation: 2 The New Yorker on the Radio Brings 'Roundtable' Memories A Case for Selling [on Trivia] Crack 6 A Revitalized Flipboard Adds Ad Gamification partnerships offer a new revenue channel. Targeting with 34,000 Topics What does Time Inc. have to gain from planting iconic brands like People, Time, InStyle and Fortune in a mobile trivia game, even one with the mega-scale of Trivia 7 Eye on Ad Recall in Bloomberg Crack (keeping in mind that this is not a simple licensing deal)? Businessweek and The Economist The immediate payoff was apparent less than a week after a launch that saw 9 Q&A: Welcome Back Mr. LaFavore the game climb to the top-five iPhone games almost immediately. “We have over 200,000 followers across our brands,” in the game in just the first days, says Ste- 10 Less Shopping Contributed to ven Haft, SVP, innovation at Time Inc. Within the first week, the SI channel had Lucky's and All You's Downfall 30,000 followers, Time 17,000, People 85,000 and People en Espanol 20,000. App review is on page 3; text continues on page 4 New TV Guide CRO Paul Turcotte Is an Event-Minded Exec In retrospect, Turcotte was a pioneer in the late-1990s as publisher when he started online music and film awards at Ziff- Davis Media's Yahoo! Internet Life. YIL would be a casualty of the dotcom crash in the early-2000s, but Turcotte saw the potential of event marketing and applied it as Premiere publisher in the mid-2000s (it folded in 2007) and as president and publisher of The Daily Front Row, where his legacies upon leaving this past March were the Fashion Media Awards and the Fashion Awards of Los Angeles. "I learned that advertisers love to rub shoulders with 'sexy events,' and I applied it myself by starting AMPitLIVE, which is short for Amplification of Live Events," says Turcotte. It helped that his first client was TV Guide because its CEO, David Fishman, was a Premiere colleague and their first project–the Television Industry Advocacy Awards in Los Angeles on September 18 included a 16-page section in TVG and buzz that, as of last week, had produced 201 million media impressions. Continued on page 2 5 Reasons You Can't Miss Our Social Media Boot Camp On November 10, min will be hosting it's third-annual Social Media Boot Camp at the Yale Club in New York. There are countless reasons why you should be there, given the importance of social media and what it means to your brand, but we wanted to simplify it down to just five. Tune in every week as we reveal each of these "can't-miss" reasons. Reason #2 We have speakers that will teach you strategy and tactics. 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But unlike the previous century of media (except perhaps for the phone), gaming has proven a tough nut to crack for marketers looking to draft off of the medium’s insane popular- ity and addictive qualities. As I reported last summer, the makers of the blockbuster mobile game Trivia Crack are trying to solve this brand-friendly gaming by letting consumer brands, non-profits and media companies run their own channel of trivia Q&As in the game’s sequel, Trivia Crack Kingdoms. The game released last week, with a full slate of Time Inc. titles represented, as well as, several cable networks, non-profits, and film studios. For the purposes of this review, I’m looking at the game as a platform for media brands. The basic gameplay is familiar Trivia Crack fare. You play against friends or ran- dom online players in a number of categories (Celebrities, News, Sports, etc.). Media brands occupy different topics. There is a People en Espanol channel just for tele- novelas, available in English and Spanish languages. The player “follows” any of these channels in order to play their questions.