{"id":8846,"date":"2014-10-06T10:53:24","date_gmt":"2014-10-06T10:53:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/?p=8846"},"modified":"2014-10-06T11:51:56","modified_gmt":"2014-10-06T11:51:56","slug":"rovio-reaches-out-to-social-media-for-angry-brids-levels-as-staff-count-is-reduced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/2014\/10\/rovio-reaches-out-to-social-media-for-angry-brids-levels-as-staff-count-is-reduced\/","title":{"rendered":"Rovio reaches out to social media for Angry Brids levels as staff count is reduced"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Let&#8217;s play join the dots. Firstly, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rovio.com\/en\/news\/blog\/552\/towards-a-simplified-organization\">Rovio costs 16% of the workforce<\/a>, announced on October 2nd:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Unfortunately, we also need to consider possible employee reductions of a maximum of 130 people in Finland (approximately 16% of workforce).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Secondly, on October 4th Rovio launch a social media campaign asking the world to create new levels for their hit (only?) franchise Angry Birds<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Want to help design a level in the Number 1 app of all time? Want millions of people across the world play it? Well this is YOUR chance to?<a href=\"http:\/\/newsletter.rovio.com\/HS?a=ENX7CqltmUkQ8SA9MKJa2IrnGHxKLSY0gfcStGb5lw8W0bBhOG5mpqVsje_HhdDYAlE3\" target=\"_blank\">#MakeTheNextLevel<\/a>! &#8230;Send us your ideas as sketches, paintings or photos by October 15th &#8211; then we&#8217;ll pick our favorites and turn them into levels for the next Angry Birds episode!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Given the majority of Rovio&#8217;s?visibility comes from app packages of new Angry Birds levels, this seems a rather&#8230;?curious coincidence. While I&#8217;m all for social media campaigns and boosting?creativity, there&#8217;s a point where &#8216;make content for us&#8217; starts to cross a line.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let&#8217;s play join the dots. Firstly, Rovio costs 16% of the workforce, announced on October 2nd: Unfortunately, we also need to consider possible employee reductions of a maximum of 130 people in Finland (approximately 16% of workforce). Secondly, on October 4th Rovio launch a social media campaign asking the world to create new levels for their hit (only?) franchise Angry Birds Want to help design a level in the Number 1 app of all time? Want millions of people across the world play it? Well this is YOUR chance to?#MakeTheNextLevel! &#8230;Send us your ideas as sketches, paintings or photos by<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[23,25,4,52],"tags":[2405,519,4967,2366],"class_list":["post-8846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gaming","category-link-log","category-pocket-computers-and-phones","category-web-2point0","tag-angry-birds","tag-campaign","tag-rovio","tag-social-media","comments-off"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p58Gl0-2iG","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8846","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8846"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8846\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8848,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8846\/revisions\/8848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}