Holding on to the last bit of holiday cheer as we enter the new year, this offbeat stocking stuffer features a very different sort of Santa. Dressed in black, he rumbles into town behind a pack of thunderous black Harley motorcycles harnessed by chains.
Our bad ass Santa dude steps into a house bearing a black sack of gifts–such as boots and exhaust pipes–which he places under the family Xmas tree. He even has a treat for the home’s menacing Doberman, an oversized bone.
The question “How bad have you been this year?” followed by “Shop Harley for badness sake” complete the spot followed by the Harley-Davidson logo and website shopping address.
Marcus Nispel of bicoastal/international MJZ directed “Hells Bells” for Carmichael Lynch, Minneapolis.
Lisa Margulis exec produced for MJZ with Vincent Oster serving as producer. The DP was John Stanier.
The Carmichael Lynch creative ensemble included chief creative officer Mike Lescarbeau, executive creative director Jim Nelson, writer Heath Pochucha, art director Bob Berken, director of broadcast Joe Grundhoefer and producer Tara Mulholland.
Einar of Union Editorial, Los Angeles, edited the commercial.
Visual effects house was Los Angeles-based resolution with Todd Iorio serving as VFX supervisor/senior VFX artist.
Apple and Google Face UK Investigation Into Mobile Browser Dominance
Apple and Google aren't giving consumers a genuine choice of mobile web browsers, a British watchdog said Friday in a report that recommends they face an investigation under new U.K. digital rules taking effect next year.
The Competition and Markets Authority took aim at Apple, saying the iPhone maker's tactics hold back innovation by stopping rivals from giving users new features like faster webpage loading. Apple does this by restricting progressive web apps, which don't need to be downloaded from an app store and aren't subject to app store commissions, the report said.
"This technology is not able to fully take off on iOS devices," the watchdog said in a provisional report on its investigation into mobile browsers that it opened after an initial study concluded that Apple and Google effectively have a chokehold on "mobile ecosystems."
The CMA's report also found that Apple and Google manipulate the choices given to mobile phone users to make their own browsers "the clearest or easiest option."
And it said that the a revenue-sharing deal between the two U.S. Big Tech companies "significantly reduces their financial incentives" to compete in mobile browsers on Apple's iOS operating system for iPhones.
Both companies said they will "engage constructively" with the CMA.
Apple said it disagreed with the findings and said it was concerned that the recommendations would undermine user privacy and security.
Google said the openness of its Android mobile operating system "has helped to expand choice, reduce prices and democratize access to smartphones and apps" and that it's "committed to open platforms that empower consumers."
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