The Cortez Brothers has added Jeannette Godoy to its roster of directors for U.S. Hispanic market representation. She continues to be handled by SuperLounge for U.S. mainstream market commercialmaking. Godoy earned inclusion earlier this year into SHOOT's New Directors Showcase…..BBDO San Francisco has hired Dan Hofstadter as associate creative director. He was most recently a copywriter at Goodby, Silverstein & Partners where he worked on such accounts as H-P, Yahoo!, Foster Farms, Sprint and Comcast…..Dallas-based editorial, audio and VFX boutique 3008 has named Lynn Louria as executive producer. Prior to joining 3008, Louria was social media manager for Splash Media in Dallas. She gained postproduction and broadcast experience working with Video Post & Transfer, The Richards Group and Post Op prior to leaving Dallas for Virginia, where she was director of development and communications for the Elizabeth River Project in Portsmouth. Louria returned to Dallas following stints as an account exec for a Norfolk advertising agency and as marketing director for a food company….Josh Libitsky has been promoted from head of production to executive producer at bicoastal production company Stardust….
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."
It's the latest move by regulators on both sides of the Atlantic to crack down on the... Read More