Nomad Editing Company’s NY office has signed editor/partner Amanda Moreau, continuing its expansion this fall. She is the most recent addition to the roster along with editors/partners Jim Ulbrich, Adam Schwartz and Jai Shukla. They joined a team which already included long-time staff editor Tyler Peck. Earlier this year, EP/partner Jennifer Lederman joined the company.
Moreau helped launch the New York office of Beast, where she gained 10 years of experience as a sr. editor. She has worked with brands including Reebok, Garnier, Duke Energy, IKEA and Champs. However, it was at Hunter College/CUNY under Roy DeCarava, where her passion for editing was first kindled.
With the new team in place at Nomad, bigger changes are on the horizon for the NY operation which is preparing to begin construction on a larger space just up the street with a move scheduled in early 2017. “Our new location will have more edit rooms and finishing suites for Flame and After Effects–not to mention other fun distractions like a custom bar, darts and ping pong,” added Lederman.
Google Opens Its Defense In Antitrust Case Alleging Monopoly Over Online Ad Technology
Google opened its defense against allegations that it holds an illegal monopoly on online advertising technology Friday with witness testimony saying the industry is vastly more complex and competitive than portrayed by the federal government.
"The industry has been exceptionally fluid over the last 18 years," said Scott Sheffer, a vice president for global partnerships at Google, the company's first witness at its antitrust trial in federal court in Alexandria.
The Justice Department and a coalition of states contend that Google built and maintained an illegal monopoly over the technology that facilitates the buying and selling of online ads seen by consumers.
Google counters that the government's case improperly focuses on a narrow type of online ads — essentially the rectangular ones that appear on the top and on the right-hand side of a webpage. In its opening statement, Google's lawyers said the Supreme Court has warned judges against taking action when dealing with rapidly emerging technology like what Sheffer described because of the risk of error or unintended consequences.
Google says defining the market so narrowly ignores the competition it faces from social media companies, Amazon, streaming TV providers and others who offer advertisers the means to reach online consumers.
Justice Department lawyers called witnesses to testify for two weeks before resting their case Friday afternoon, detailing the ways that automated ad exchanges conduct auctions in a matter of milliseconds to determine which ads are placed in front of which consumers and how much they cost.
The department contends the auctions are finessed in subtle ways that benefit Google to the exclusion of would-be competitors and in ways that prevent... Read More