Digital agency Razorfish has made two key hires for its production team in Chicago, securing Rob Jaeger and Katie Matson-Walker as production directors. Jaeger will manage content production across broadcast, web, cinema and mobile. Matson-Walker’s focus will be on transmedia brand storytelling and content production.
Jaeger was most recently VP, lead producer at Cramer-Krasselt where he managed and produced campaigns for Corona, Porsche, Crocs and Edward Jones Financials, among others. Prior to his tenure at Cramer-Krasselt, Jaeger was executive producer at Element 79 Partners and broadcast producer at DDB Chicago, where he produced content for Bud Light, Gatorade, Propel and Quaker Foods.
Meanwhile Walker was previously executive producer at digital and social media agency Mekanism, where she built the company’s satellite office in New York. Additional experience includes eight years as a producer with Believe Media. Over her career, Walker has produced commercials, web films, documentaries, music videos and social media campaigns for top global brands Stella Artois, Mac Cosmetics, Samsung, GE and ESPN, among others.
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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