Chelsea Pictures has secured talent management agency Get Reehl/Get Davis–headed by founder/partner Jill Reehl–to handle representation on the West Coast. Get Reehl/Get Davis joins Chelsea sales team of Denise Blate Roederer of RHODA on the East Coast, and Doug Stephen & Partners in the Midwest. Chelsea’s directorial roster includes David Gordon Green, Lauren Greenfield, Alex Gibney, Bruce Hunt, Jack Cole, Nadav Kander, Amir Bar-Lev,, Kyle Patrick Alvarez, Thomas Beug, Alan Poul, Gregory Jacobs, Matthias Zentner, Peyton Wilson and Erik Madigan Heck…..
Innovative Artists has added agent Lisa Holguin to its commercial department where she will work with Robbyn Foxx. Holguin comes over from Dattner Dispoto and Associates with more than 20 years of experience….
Production designer Perry Newberry has joined Innovative Artists for representation in commercials. Newberry has traveled all over the world and has worked with production companies like Biscuit, Tool, and Smuggler. He has worked with brands like Mercedes, Netflix, Michelin, and Adidas. He is based in Barcelona and London but also works in the U.S….
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