Crispin Porter+Bogusky (CP+B) has hired Matt O’Rourke as interactive group creative director, Jens McNaughton as interactive associate creative director, and Chean Wei Law as interactive design director, to work out of the agency’s Boulder office.
O’Rourke joins CP+B as interactive group creative director. Prior to CP+B, O’Rourke acted as digital SVP/group creative director of McCann WorldGroup, where he worked across all WorldGroup accounts, focusing on non-traditional and non-advertising based solutions. O’Rourke started at McCann in 2003, working as a copywriter on the Microsoft account. In 2005, he decided to shift his focus from traditional to non traditional media, eventually taking a leadership position developing the agency’s digital creative capabilities at its New York office. Ever since this transition, O’Rourke’s work has been recognized with numerous industry awards, most recently a Bronze Lion at the 2010 Cannes Lions Festival for General Mill’s “Golden Grants” campaign and a Silver Pencil for the Mastercard mobile app Priceless Picks at this year’s One Show Interactive, an event at which O’Rourke also judged. In addition, O’Rourke has won accolades at the Kelly and Addy Awards as well as having received a gold Effie for his Mastercard work in each of the last four years.
McNaughton is CP+B’s newest interactive associate creative director, bringing with him more than 14 years of experience in advertising and web development. Since 2007, McNaughton has held the post of creative director at Apple, Inc., where he managed the development of the iPhone website and created more than a dozen iPhone applications. Prior to Apple, McNaughton acted as associate creative director at The Designory, Inc., where he worked on award-winning websites and online advertising campaigns for Nissan Motors and Infiniti Motors. McNaughton’s work has been recognized by One Show Interactive, Los Angeles Beldings, Communication Arts, San Francisco Show, Addy’s, HOW Magazine and the Macromedia Site of the Day.
Law returns to CP+B as an interactive design director, having gotten his creative start as an interactive designer with the agency’s Miami office in 2005, where he helped produce major campaigns for Burger King, Mini Cooper, Volkswagen and Coke Zero. Prior to his new position with CP+B, Law was an interactive art director/designer at Wieden + Kennedy, Portland, Ore., for more than three years, mainly working on the Nike, Starbucks and Coke accounts. Before that, Law worked as an art director for JWT New York, during which time he also founded his own design studio called Undoboy. Law’s work has been honored with many industry awards including a Cyber Grand Prix by Cannes Lions and a London International Grand Prize. In addition to multiple gold and silvers at both of these shows, he has also won awards from the Andy’s, One Show, Clios and Webbys.
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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