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    Calling All (Young) Creatives

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    By Robert Goldrich

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    The search is underway for creatives to serve on Team USA, which will represent the country in the Young Creative Competition that takes place annually at the Cannes International Advertising Festival.

    The upcoming Team USA competition for young creatives is open to art directors and copywriters who are no more than 28 years old as of June 15, 2005. And for the first time, the U.S. team will also include a Web designer, with the same age requirement.

    Other prerequisites include that candidates be Mac-literate and U.S. citizens. Web designers must be literate in Adobe. Art directors and copywriters must have those titles as working professionals. Each creative does not have to work at the same agency, but can only enter as a member of one team.

    Entrants have to register their written request for a creative brief, accompanied by their e-mail addresses, with Susan Lilley at slilley@usatoday.com by March 24. They can also register via fax (212 715-2129) or by mail to Lilley’s attention (USA Today, 535 Madison Ave., New York, NY 10022). Qualifying teams will receive a creative brief for a pro-bono account via e-mail on March 28 and have one week to prepare a finished print or banner ad.

    Based on those ads, the winning team will be selected by a noted group of judges in New York during the week of April 18.   That winning creative ensemble will become Team USA and be awarded an all-expenses paid trip to the 52nd International Advertising Festival in Cannes (including airfare, hotel accommodations, Festival credentials, tickets for award ceremonies).

        At Cannes, the Young Creative Competition will take place on June 18. Teams from around the world will be briefed that day and have 24 hours to create an ad and a Web site for a pro-bono client. Members of the Cannes international jury will review the Young Creative work and select the winning team, which will be announced at the Press & Outdoor Awards.

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    Apple and Google Face UK Investigation Into Mobile Browser Dominance

    Saturday, November 23, 2024

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    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."

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    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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