CP+B has hired Rich Tlapek as creative director. Tlapek is based out of CP+B’s Boulder office and will be working on the agency’s Best Buy account.
Most recently Tlapek freelanced for Saatchi & Saatchi LA, Innocean and Montreal-based Sid Lee. Prior to that he spent 15 years at GSD&M in Austin, Texas, moving up to VP/group creative director. While there he oversaw creative on numerous accounts including the U.S. Air Force, PGA Tour, Dial, CBS Sports and John Deere.
Tlapek is responsible for the well-known Southwest Airlines tagline “Ding: You are now free to move about the country.” His work has been recognized by The One Show, New York Art Directors Club, Communication Arts and D&AD, while his work for the PGA Tour and CBS Sports won Cannes Lions.
Among his favorite campaigns he worked on were the PGA Tour’s “These guys are good” and Dial Body Wash’s “You’re not as clean as you think.” Tlapek is a graduate of the University of Southern California and the Portfolio Center for Advertising.
CP+B, a member of the MDC Partners network, has a client list that includes Microsoft, Unilever, Kraft, Phillips, Coke Zero, American Express, Domino’s Pizza, MetLife, Old Navy, Applebee’s, Discovery Networks, SAS, Arby’s and Best Buy. CP+B has more than 850 employees worldwide, collaborating across six shops: Boulder, Miami, Los Angeles, Toronto, London and Gothenburg, Sweden.
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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