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    Jurors have been announced for the Clio Awards.

    By Kristin Wilcha

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    New Faces

    Jurors have been announced for the Clio Awards. Serving on the TV/cinema jury from the U.S. are: David Apicella, chief creative officer at Ogilvy & Mather, New York, and Jan Jacobs, creative director at Saatchi & Saatchi, New York. Serving on the print/poster/innovative jury from the U.S. is Rob Reilly, VP/creative director at Crispin Porter +  Bogusky, Miami. Additionally, Robert Greenberg, chairman/CEO/chief creative office of R/GA, New York, will receive Clio’s Lifetime Achievement Award….Minsoo Pak is joining the newly opened Atlanta office of Tribal DDB as executive creative director….

    Account Movement

    Dell Computers has awarded creative chores on its account to BBDO Atlanta….Euro RSCG Worldwide, New York, has won corporate ad duties on the ExxonMobil account….DirecTV has shifted its account to Deutsch, New York….Frito-Lay has awarded its Doritos account to Goodby, Silverstein & Partners, San Francisco….Target has added Wieden + Kennedy, Portland, Ore., and BBDO New York, to its roster of agencies….Additionally in W+ K news, the shop will now handle advertising for Procter & Gamble’s “Old Spice,” which had been with Saatchi & Saatchi, New York….Merkley + Partners, New York, will handle ad duties for AXA Equitable….Mother, New York, has been added to the Johnson & Johnson agency roster, handling creative duties on the Rembrandt oral-care products account…..

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    Apple and Google Face UK Investigation Into Mobile Browser Dominance

    Saturday, November 23, 2024

    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."

    It's the latest move by regulators on both sides of the Atlantic to crack down on the... Read More

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