Traveling Picture Show Company has secured indie firm MoButler Reps to handle the Midwest....
Traveling Picture Show Company, the L.A.-headquartered spot production house led by exec producer/partner John Noble, has secured independent firm MoButler Reps, headed by Maureen Butler, to handle the Midwest. MoButler Reps joins a Traveling Picture Show sales force consisting of Blush LA on the West Coast, Asprodites Reps in the Southwest, and Matchmaker Media on the East Coast, The Traveling Picture Show directorial roster includes Andrews Jenkins, Chris Woods, Jonathan Parkinson, Kevin Goetz, Enda McCallion, Jeremy Warshaw, Gus Black, David Fishel, Jay Buim, Ryan Bosworth, Barry Kimm, and Jim Matlosz….Chloe Sedelmaier has joined Bang Music in NY as director of business development. Most recently she was part of the sales team at Launch, the test commercial division of Charlex in NY. Sedelmaier will work directly with Bang’s Sara Iversen and founder Lyle Greenfield in developing strategic initiatives for the company not only in the area of commercial work but also in Bang’s audio post and music supervision for TV and film. This will include building a U.S. network for Bang’s new European division, which opens in October in Prague….Creative studio Leviathan is now repped on the East Coast by Rich Durkin and Ice Tea Productions, and on the West Coast by Claire & Company, which is headed by Claire Worch. Leviathan continues to be handled in the Midwest by Tracy Bernard….Production designer Carl Swanberg has joined colleen, the management company founded by Colleen Dolan Vinetz. Swanberg has worked for such brands as Jaguar, Levi’s, Land Rover, Sony PlayStation and Sprint…..Production designer Keith Cunningham has wrapped principal photography on River Road Entertainment’s Love & Mercy starring John Cusack, Elizabeth Banks, Paul Dano and Paul Giamatti. Cunningham is now available for spots and features via The Skouras Agency, Santa Monica….
Google Opens Its Defense In Antitrust Case Alleging Monopoly Over Online Ad Technology
Google opened its defense against allegations that it holds an illegal monopoly on online advertising technology Friday with witness testimony saying the industry is vastly more complex and competitive than portrayed by the federal government.
"The industry has been exceptionally fluid over the last 18 years," said Scott Sheffer, a vice president for global partnerships at Google, the company's first witness at its antitrust trial in federal court in Alexandria.
The Justice Department and a coalition of states contend that Google built and maintained an illegal monopoly over the technology that facilitates the buying and selling of online ads seen by consumers.
Google counters that the government's case improperly focuses on a narrow type of online ads — essentially the rectangular ones that appear on the top and on the right-hand side of a webpage. In its opening statement, Google's lawyers said the Supreme Court has warned judges against taking action when dealing with rapidly emerging technology like what Sheffer described because of the risk of error or unintended consequences.
Google says defining the market so narrowly ignores the competition it faces from social media companies, Amazon, streaming TV providers and others who offer advertisers the means to reach online consumers.
Justice Department lawyers called witnesses to testify for two weeks before resting their case Friday afternoon, detailing the ways that automated ad exchanges conduct auctions in a matter of milliseconds to determine which ads are placed in front of which consumers and how much they cost.
The department contends the auctions are finessed in subtle ways that benefit Google to the exclusion of would-be competitors and in ways that prevent... Read More