This playful take on being faster than a speeding bullet for Clio Renault’s RS 200 was directed by Joseph Kahn via Mercurio Cinematografica, Milan, for Saatchi & Saatchi Italy. In this spot, we see a bullet struggling to keep up with the Renault as both approach a fork in the road.
The driver angles his car so that the bullet enters through his lowered window, flies on a straight line through the interior of the car and then out the front passenger side window. The Renault then veers off to the left roadway as the bullet hurtles down the right.
The Saatchi creative ensemble consisted of creative directors Guido Cornara and Agostino Toscana, copywriter Luca Lorenzini, art director Luca Pannese and producer Jessica Ferguson.
Luca Fanfani executive produced for Mercurio. The DP was Paolo Caimi.
Editor was Antonio Civilini of You Are Post, Milan. Contributors from post house sto.pp Sweden were online editor Peter Marin and 3-D artists Stefan Andersson, Arvid Bjorn and Per Bergsten. Colorist was Adriano Mestroni of Contrast, Milan. Audio mixer/sound designer was Jean Casalini of Mach2 Studio, Milan.
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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