Sara Dunlop of Rattling Stick directed this spot which takes us back in time to a town square to witness “true believers” as they voiced their vision for the future–from the Wright Brothers who dreamed man could fly, to the suffragettes who campaigned for equality and women’s right to vote, to an astronaut who said man would one day walk on the moon.
Each person spoke of his or her progressive vision through an old fashioned, oversized megaphone-like device on a stage in the heart of the town square. A narrator points out that “ideas too bold to fathom can’t become real wihtout at least one true believer.”
Fast forward to today and a boy steps up on stage to say that he “believes in Zero: zero starving children, zero children without school, zero children dying when they don’t have to.”
“Believe in Zero” is the branding slogan for the U.S. Fund for UNICEF. This :60 concludes by asking those who believe in zero to do their part, starting by logging onto unicefusa.org.
Agency is BBH New York.
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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