WHAT: Brent Dusing, CEO and Founder of the Christian gaming platform, TruPlay, is available to discuss the alarming statistics of how harmful content online is affecting children and the newest research from CyberSafeKids, which provides insights into what children between the ages of 8-12 encounter online.
Brent Dusing is available to discuss:
Statistics from CyberSafeKids new research that shows
26% of children have seen or experienced something online in the last year that bothered them. 29% of those children kept it to themselves rather than reporting it to their parents or someone else
20% state that they have seen something online that they wouldn’t want their parents to know about
64% of children said that they’d been contacted by a stranger in an online game
26% report that they have friends and followers that they don’t know offline
Many games today feature violence and other illicit activities that have been said to link with depression and mental health problems.
Anxiety, suicide and depression rates are at all-time highs for children, precisely tracked with the use of social media on smartphones.
WHO: Brent Dusing is the CEO and founder of TruPlay, a gaming platform created to bring high-quality, fun and biblically-sound entertainment to audiences worldwide. Brent Dusing is a thought leader in the space of providing high-quality, fun and safe digital content for children.
An entrepreneur at heart, Dusing pioneered game creation with Christian content through Lightside Games, a Christian gaming studio reaching more than 7 million game players worldwide and resulting in 25,000 decisions for Christ. As the founder and CEO of Cellfire, Dusing created the nation’s leading mobile coupon company, used today at grocers like Safeway and Kroger, and leading Catalina Marketing to acquire Cellfire for $108 million. He began his career as a venture capitalist at Menlo Ventures, where he sourced multiple nine-figure exits and generated top-quartile returns. Over his career, Dusing has been featured on CNN, Fox News, ABC News, The Wall Street Journal, New York Times, USA Today, Entertainment Weekly and other news media. Dusing has a bachelor’s degree in economics from Harvard University.
WHEN/WHERE: Brent Dusing is available for interviews via phone, email or Zoom, and for in-person interviews near the Austin, TX area.
ADDITIONAL DETAILS:
About TruPlay
TruPlay is reaching families around the world with high-quality entertainment products that encompass God's Truth. TruPlay is building games, digital comics, video content, and Web 3.0 content to bring light to a world in need of God’s love, hope and truth. TruPlay’s platform launches in 2023. TruPlay is a team of dozens of industry veterans with deep expertise in games, storytelling, animation, entertainment, and technology—who are committed to seeing the betterment of children around the world. TruPlay launched the first major NFT release by a Christian technology company last month with 6,650 Genesis NFTs, which minted out within 10 minutes of their release on the morning of Sept. 15. To date, TruPlay has raised over $20 million in investor capital, an accomplishment that validates its vision to create safe, edifying content for children. For more information, visit www.truplaygames.com.
For more information on why Brent Dusing created TruPlay and the company’s mission, visit https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=njGOmFntAXk.
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