Bicoastal/international Moxie Pictures has signed director Graeme Joyce for exclusive global spot representation and the directorial duo Big Red Button (Johnny Burns and Pier van Tijn) for TV commercials and digital content worldwide.
Among Joyce’s previous roosts are HSI and Untitled. He began his directing career creating music videos for high profile bands and recording artists. His music video for The Stone Temple Pilots’ “Wicked Garden” received the prestigious Best Director Debut at the MVPA Awards. Some of his more recent commercial work is for Chase with McGarry Bowen, New York, and Zales through The Richards Group, Dallas. Joyce has helmed innovative work for clients such as Target, Mercedes and British Airways.
Meanwhile Burns and van Tijn have been working together for six years since meeting on a film set in Oxford. They have written and directed viral series, short films and music videos combining animation and live action; always with a cheeky sense of humor and irreverence.
Big Red Button made an auspicious ad campaign debut for FRANK featuring Pablo the Drug Mule Dog, which received a BTAA Award. In addition the directing team’s short film Perrington Stud was a finalist in the Getty Images/Short & Sweet competition.
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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