James Cooper, who most recently served as chief creative innovation officer at JWT New York, has signed on as an interactive director on the Tool roster. Cooper has been the creative leader on a wide range of digital work, including: this year’s Cannes Gold Lion-winning mobile application for Band-Aid featuring the Muppets; Wheaties’ Most Valuable Tweeter Super Bowl campaign; and JCPenney’s “Return to the Doghouse” campaign.
Cooper managed JWT NY’s creative product in the digital space, creating campaigns as well as products. Previously, he was the creative director at two of the UK’s leading independent digital agencies, Dare and Agency Republic, growing both from a staff of under 50 to over 150 people during his tenure.
Cooper, who over the years has earned more than 50 top digital awards, started at Ogilvy London where he ran the IBM business.
At Tool, Cooper will be working alongside such colleagues as digital exec producer Dustin Callif.
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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