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Greg Swan is a Minneapolis-based marketing futurist, speaker and frequent media source on AI, emerging technology, social media and influencers, digital culture, consumer behavior, marketing trends and whatever strange thing the internet is doing this week.

He has been interviewed and quoted by The New York Times, CNN, CBS News, NPR, Fast Company, Forbes, Adweek, Ad Age, Digiday, PRWeek, Axios and many others, and regularly joins WCCO Radio for Greg Swan Explains the Internet.

Working on a story? Greg is available for interviews, expert commentary, podcasts, television, radio and approximately any other format where somebody wants to talk about what’s happening next.

Contact Greg here.

2026

• WCCO Radio/Podcast: Internet Futurist Unplugged For One Week: HOW DID HE DO?

• Reviews.org: Ray-Ban Meta Glasses Are Everywhere Now: Here’s the Privacy Trade-Off

• Digital Summit Collective: 20 Years of "This Changes Everything," and the One Thing That Hasn't

• WCCO Radio/Podcast: Greg Swan Explains the Internet - Digital Collections

• CX Today: Why Did We Let Social Platforms Become Our Customer Database?

• WCCO Radio/Podcast: Greg Swan Explains the Internet - Have you ChatGPT’d Yourself Lately?

• PR Week: Greg Swan named Head of Futures & Transformation

• WCCO Radio/Podcast: Greg Swan Explains the Internet - Moon Mission edition

• Fast Company: Deepfakes are warping reality. This AI project turns them into a history lesson

• O’Dwyers: How Vibes Shape Consumer Behavior

• WCCO Radio/Podcast: Outsourcing Your Humanity to AI: How Greg Swan Knew He Went Too Far

• MAKE: Magazine: Maker Highlights from the Biggest Tech Show on Earth

• The Shorty Awards:CES + 1B. Two deserts. Two futures. One reality check.

• WCCO Radio/Podcast: Greg Swan Explains the Internet – Robots Doing Your Laundry at CES 2026?

• Marketing Brew: Viva las CES: What marketers are betting on at CES 2026

• Afar Magazine: To Understand Hotel Luxury, Look at the Bathroom

• WCCO Radio/Podcast: Greg Swan Explains the Internet - The 5 Most Innovative Super Bowl Ads

2025

• PR Week: How to Message & Market Through the Vibe-ified Chaos of 2026

• WCCO Radio/Podcast: Greg Explains the Internet – Waymo and the Future of Self-Driving Cars

• The Shorty Awards It’s No Fluke Podcast: Greg Swan – Don’t Forget the Human Stuff

• Sprout Social: The future of social media: 7 expert predictions for 2026

• WCCO Radio/Podcast: Greg Explains the Internet – What is 6-7 & the history of viral sayings from our childhood

• Digiday: The creator is splintering as AI forces a new reckoning

• WCCO Radio/Podcast: Greg Explains the Internet – Would you pay a monthly fee for Instagram and Facebook?

• FOXTV: The TikTok sale explained

• Cybernews: Will doom scrolling give you that warm fuzzy feeling when it’s gone?

• Digiday: Marketers on the first 100 days of President Trump’s policies

• WCCO Radio/Podcast: Greg Explains the Internet – “Finding Friends, Dodging TikTok Bans, and the Rise of Dark Social”

• Digiday: How marketers feel about experiential at SXSW

• WCCO Radio/Podcast: Greg Explains the Internet – The “Free” TV

• Digiday: As SXSW kicks off, marketers embrace it as an ‘accessible’ conference for content, connection

• AdAge: Top Ad Trends to Watch in 2025

• Ragan Communications/PR Daily: What to do if TikTok is banned

• PRovoke: Marketers Bracing For The Unpredictable As US TikTok Ban Looms

• Ragan Communications/PR Daily: Supreme Court decision seems to spell the end of TikTok

• Digiday: CES 2025 showcases more AI for TVs, wearables and advertisers

• Pioneer Press: Minnesota’s Greg Swan visits CES every year and has grown skillful in sussing out the tech trends

• WCCO Radio/Podcast:Live from the CES 2025 Showfloor with Greg Swan

2024

• PR Week: How to Connect with Your Cyborg Audience in 2025

• The Drum: OpenAI is eyeing ads – but getting it right will be a tricky balancing act, experts say

• Ragan Communications/PR Daily: Own the customer journey to help prove PR’s role in driving sales

• WCCO Radio/Podcast: The effect of social memes on political campaigns

• Digiday: Why Toys”R”Us used OpenAI’s Sora to create an AI-generated video.

• Business Insider: PR firms are running execs’ LinkedIn profiles — and turning ghostwriting into big business

• AdAge: Apple Vision Pro vs Meta Quest – How Marketers View The Competing Headsets

• WCCO Radio/Podcast: Greg Swan LIVE from CES in Las Vegas

2023

• Digiday: As regulatory pressure mounts for artificial intelligence, new lawsuits want to take OpenAI to court

• WCCO Radio/Podcast: Will “Threads” really become a Twitter-killer?

• Digiday: ‘No other platform will be Twitter’: Marketers aren’t sold on Twitter alternatives just yet

• WCCO Radio/Podcast: CES kicks off in Las Vegas, highlighting new tech, including automated snow blowers and robots

2022

• The New York Times/Pioneer Press: How is everyone making those A.I. selfies?

• Star Tribune: 6 cool things in music

• Digiday: Why Shutterstock is betting on generative AI for the future of stock images

• The Drum: Which ad agencies are advising clients to evacuate Twitter?

• Digiday: How Pinterest hopes to catch up to the e-commerce boom

• MediaPost: 3 Ways To Invest In Web3 That Won’t Break the Bank

• Twin Cities Business: You don’t have to be a fan of NFTs to see the value in bringing Web3 trailblazers to Minnesota

• CBS-TV MN: Which Super Bowl Commercials Reigned Supreme?

• MSP Business Journal: The Social Lights names Stephanie Schafer COO; hires Greg Swan for chief creative role

• Minneapolis Egotist:The Social Lights Bolsters C-Suite with Two Agency Veterans in Strategic Growth Move

2021

• The Business Conversation Podcast:Forecasting 2022 with Greg Swan

• Mixing Board Studio Session: Digital Culture Expert Greg Swan on the Future of Creativity

• Adweek: Greg Swan named Fallon’s Head of Creative Innovation

• Axios: The case of the $5 mystery safe

• Cities 97: The Story Of The $5 Mystery Safe In Chaska

• Shots: The Most Successful Social Media Ads Will be in Augmented Reality

• Forbes: At CES And Beyond, CMOs See Potential With New Kinds Of Virtual Events

2020

• PR Week: A Vacation During a Pandemic?

• Elemental: Boredom is Spreading the Coronavirus

• Twin Cities Business: How to Make the Most of LinkedIn

• Chaska Herald/Pioneer Press: Navigating the New World of Working at Home

• Minneapolis Institute of Art: Critical Thinking in Critical Times

• Twin Cities Business: Zoom Hacks

• Forbes: As Super Bowl Advertisers Flock To TikTok, CMOs Are Cautiously Curious

2019

• CMS Wire: 2019 Internet Trends Report: 8 Takeaways for Marketers

• The Schmidt List: Social Disruption with Greg Swan

• MIMA: Member Spotlight on Greg Swan

• Buzzfeed: Freezing Our Pants Off

2018

• MIMA: Super Bowl 2018 – How’d We Score with Greg Swan

• CBS NewsTV: Messaging apps embrace the “dark social” Web

• Digiday: Inherently Thumb-Stopping

• Adweek: How to Market a Seemingly Boring Industry in a Unique Way That Results in Page Views

2017

• The New York Times: Is a Trivia App the Answer to Questions About Live Streaming?

2016

• Sports Illustrated: MN Wild Become First to Use Snapchat Spectacles (

• Pioneer Press: Travel Toy Photography is a Thing

• Star Tribune:Companies catching digital fever around the Super Bowl

• Pioneer Press: The Wild are wild for new, camera-equipped Snapchat Spectacles

• CBS-TV MN: Why Is It So Hard To Quit Social Media?

• Campaign US: The five most creative strategies for recruiting agency interns

• Pioneer Press: Twin Cities businesses embrace the Pokémon Go craze

• Digiday: Marketers Like What They See in Snapchat Spectacles

2015

• Twin Cities Business: 5 Online Best Practices for Business

• Verizon News Center: Evolution of the Music Listening Experience

• Pioneer Press: Apple Watch is coming, but not all tech fans are sold yet

2014

• PR Week: Content Has a New Voice

• MSP Magazine: Social Status: Influential Minnesotans on Social Media

• NBC-TV MN: Google Glass: Hot or Not?

• Star Tribune: Who Wants to Wear a Smartwatch?

2013

• Pioneer Press: Remember those helpful humanoids from ‘Minority Report’? They’re almost here

• MN Blogger Conference: Q&A with Keynote Speaker Greg Swan

• Star Tribune: Funky photo fads flourish thanks to social media

• Pioneer Press: Google Glass — Half empty or half full?

• Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication: Interview with Greg Swan

• PR News: 3 Crucial Communication Skills to Master Today

• CBS-TV MN: Keep Up With Your Kids on Social Media

• Star Tribune: As popular as ever, selfies are changing the way we communicate

• PR News: 5 Key Tips for PR Pros to Avoid Burnout and Stay Motivated

• CBS-TV MN: Beware: Your Reputation is Being Googled

2012

• Pioneer Press: Apple’s new Maps app earning jeers, cheers

• Mashable: Groundhog Phil says “WTF” to Groundhog Day

• NPR Radio: Art Hounds

• Social Media Examiner: How the US Army is Using Bloggers

2011

• MSP Business Journal: Greg Swan wins PR Week 40 Under 40

• PR Week: 40 Under 40 Ones to Watch

• Pioneer Press: Social media overload? You’re not alone. How experts manage

• NBC-TV MN: Top Tweeps of the Twin Cities

• FOX-TV MN: Is Formspring a New Forum for Bullying?

• Chaska Herald/Pioneer Press: Punxsutawney Phil’s Chaska connection is Greg Swan

2010

• Conversation Agent: What’s so great about this blogging thing?

• Minnesota Business: Digital Domain

• Twin Cities Business: Greg Swan named Twin Cities Social Media Titan

2009

• Sky News: Getting a Job via Twitter?

• Pioneer Press: Twitter’s tweet connections bring job-seekers, employers together

• MinnPost: Minnesotans dive in big time at SXSW Interactive

• CNN: I found my job on Twitter

2008

• MSP Business Journal: Social Media is not Just for Personal Connections Anymore

• Star Tribune: Keeping It Short and Tweet

• MinnPost: New Media Means New Market Strategies

• Pioneer Press: RIP HD-DVD, Here Comes Streaming