The creative team of Calle and Pelle Sjonell is joining Fallon Minneapolis as group creative directors. The brothers come to Fallon from different ad shops in Sweden. Pelle Sjonell has been the creative director/co-founder/CEO of King, while Calle Sjonell comes over from his post as creative director at Starring (formerly Moonwalk), Stockholm. Despite working at separate agencies, the brothers have collaborated on several projects in recent years. Fallon creative director Kerry Feuerman plans to use Pelle’s traditional ad agency background and Calle’s interactive industry experience by merging the two disciplines to work together as a single team…..Vic Palumbo has been promoted to director of broadcast production at Fallon Minneapolis, succeeding Brian DiLorenzo, who is leaving to become executive director, content, at BBDO North America. Palumbo joined Fallon a little more than a year ago as an executive producer. He came to Fallon from Wieden+Kennedy, Portland, Ore., where he produced Emmy and Cannes Lion-winning work for Nike……Dave Weist has joined Modernista!, Boston, as creative director. He will manage various agency clients, including Cadillac, Hummer, TIAA Cref and Rockport. Weist spent the past nearly 10 years at Arnold Worldwide, Boston, where he moved up the ladder from junior writer to senior VP/creative director. At Arnold, Weist worked on the famous Volkswagen “Drivers Wanted” campaign….. Lisa Rettig-Falcone has joined DDB New York as a creative director, overseeing the Subaru regional account, as well as working on United Technologies and new business. The move marks her return to DDB after serving for the last seven years as a group creative director at Lowe, New York….
TikTok’s Fate Arrives At Supreme Court; Arguments Center On Free Speech and National Security
In one of the most important cases of the social media age, free speech and national security collide at the Supreme Court on Friday in arguments over the fate of TikTok, a wildly popular digital platform that roughly half the people in the United States use for entertainment and information.
TikTok says it plans to shut down the social media site in the U.S. by Jan. 19 unless the Supreme Court strikes down or otherwise delays the effective date of a law aimed at forcing TikTok's sale by its Chinese parent company.
Working on a tight deadline, the justices also have before them a plea from President-elect Donald Trump, who has dropped his earlier support for a ban, to give him and his new administration time to reach a "political resolution" and avoid deciding the case. It's unclear if the court will take the Republican president-elect's views — a highly unusual attempt to influence a case — into account.
TikTok and China-based ByteDance, as well as content creators and users, argue the law is a dramatic violation of the Constitution's free speech guarantee.
"Rarely if ever has the court confronted a free-speech case that matters to so many people," lawyers for the users and content creators wrote. Content creators are anxiously awaiting a decision that could upend their livelihoods and are eyeing other platforms.
The case represents another example of the court being asked to rule about a medium with which the justices have acknowledged they have little familiarity or expertise, though they often weigh in on meaty issues involving restrictions on speech.
The Biden administration, defending the law that President Joe Biden signed in April after it was approved by wide bipartisan majorities in Congress, contends that... Read More