Ad agency BEING, a unit of TBWA, has given voice to the up until now silent Mr. Peanut character, with help from director Ringan Ledwidge of Smuggler and stop motion animation out of LAIKA/house with Mark Gustafson serving as supervising animation director and Kirk Kelley as creative director/animation director.
The voice happens to be that of actor Robert Downey Jr, as we see Mr. Peanut hosting a holiday party replete with some characters just as, if not more, offbeat than a talking, monocled peanut, including a root beer drinking cricket a mouse-y waiter and a bird who’s trying to serve nuts to a taxidermied creature.
The BEING creative team included creative directors Kris Wixom and Alisa Sengel Wixom, copywriters Jonathan Marshall and Josh DiMarcantonio, and art director Eric Stevens. David Fisher was sr. producer for TBWA’s Media Arts.
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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