A man, disappointed over his girlfriend moving on, talks to her on the phone. Trying to be civil yet wincing as he speaks, he “asks” his girlfriend about her new guy or “bloke.”
The camera cuts to the gal, who’s on the couch with another hot-looking chick. Turns out she left him for another woman.
The guy’s ex-girlfriend replies on the phone, “How long have you got?” Indeed she has a long story to tell, at which point a voiceover informs us that Vodafone customers can talk up to 60 minutes while paying for only three minutes. The deal is part of Vodafone’s “Stop The Clock” promo campaign.
Titled “Affair,” this spot is one of several :15s cut from the same conceptual cloth. All the spots were directed by David Lodge of Outsider, London, for JWT London.
The core agency team consisted of art director Kevin Baldwin, copywriter Mick Brigdale and producer Dean Baker.
Toby Courlander and Robert Campbell executive produced for Outsider, with Garfield Kempton serving as producer. The DP was Colin Watkinson.
Editor was Mark Edinov of Peepshow, London. Colorist was Matt Turner of Framestore, London. Audio post house was 750mph, London. Principal actors were Cheryl Isherwood and Tony Hurst.
Supreme Court Seems Likely To Uphold A Law That Could Force TikTok To Shut Down On Jan. 19
The Supreme Court on Friday seemed likely to uphold a law that would ban TikTok in the United States beginning Jan. 19 unless the popular social media program is sold by its China-based parent company.
Hearing arguments in a momentous clash of free speech and national security concerns, the justices seemed persuaded by arguments that the national security threat posed by the company's connections to China override concerns about restricting the speech either of TikTok or its 170 million users in the United States.
Early in arguments that lasted more than two and a half hours, Chief Justice John Roberts identified his main concern: TikTok's ownership by China-based ByteDance and the parent company's requirement to cooperate with the Chinese government's intelligence operations.
If left in place, the law passed by bipartisan majorities in Congress and signed by President Joe Biden in April will require TikTok to "go dark" on Jan. 19, lawyer Noel Francisco told the justices on behalf of TikTok.
At the very least, Francisco urged, the justices should enter a temporary pause that would allow TikTok to keep operating. "We might be in a different world again" after President-elect Donald Trump takes office on Jan. 20. Trump, who has 14.7 million followers on TikTok, also has called for the deadline to be pushed back to give him time to negotiate a "political resolution." Francisco served as Trump's solicitor general in his first presidential term.
But it was not clear whether any justices would choose such a course. And only Justice Neil Gorsuch sounded like he would side with TikTok to find that the ban violates the Constitution.
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