Bicoastal Supply&Demand Integrated has added director Matt Lenski to its roster for spot representation. He was formerly repped by Epoch Films.
Lenski’s credits span such brands as Subway, Comcast and MTV. For the latter, he directed numerous campaigns during his tenure as creative director at MTV’s On-Air promos department. His filmography also includes music videos for such artists as Band of Horses and Regina Spektor. Among Lenski-directed work attaining high-profile viral status was his parody of the Republican Presidential Convention in NYC titled F*ck New York.
Lenski’s recent projects also include “Style Wars: The Musical” for the “Art in the Streets” Exhibit at the Museum Of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles (MOCA.) The exhibit features paintings, mixed media sculptures, and interactive installations by a group of street artists, including Banksy & Shepard Fairey, and is now touring the world.
Additionally Lenski has directed the short film Meaning of Robots which centers on a man who’s been making a stop motion animation project in his apartment for the past 15 years.
Lenski joins a Supply&Demand directorial lineup that includes Jeffery Plansker, Lucy Walker, Sean Thonson, Adrien Brody, Josh Taft, Greg Popp, David Holm, Robert Logevall, Margo Weathers, Matthew Rolston, Gary Breslin, Gabriela Cowperthwaite, Landis Smithers, Tony Kaye and Ondrea Barbe.
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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