How EA is opening up gaming to advertisers

Peter Moore, chief operating officer at Electronic Arts, spoke to the IAB's Annual Leadership meeting in 2012 and reminded the delegates to never forget their core expertise and core audience.

How EA is opening up gaming to advertisers

Geoffrey PrecourtWarc

Peter Moore, Electronic Arts' chief operating officer, hasn't always worked in gaming. In fact, he moved to the US in 1992 with Reebok.

But the hard lessons he learned during a tough few years at the sportswear brand are very much informing his approach to EA's approach to advertisers.

"You can't let the future happen to you," Moore told the 2012 Interactive Advertising Bureau's (IAB) 2012 annual meeting in Miami's South Beach. "You have to stay ahead of the trends."

Moore's role at Reebok was to help bring...

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