Caviar, a commercial, feature and TV production company with offices in L.A., Amsterdam, Brussels and Paris, has extended its geographic reach, launching a London office in a joint venture with U.K. shop Pulse Films.
The move makes Caviar’s roster of directors available to the U.K. market. Sadie Ward at Pulse Films will act as head of sales for Caviar’s London office. Caviar additionally gains a production foothold in the U.K.
“With the traction Caviar has gained in Europe over the last few years, we’ve realized a need for a full-service Caviar office in London,” said Michael Sagol, executive producer and managing partner of Caviar.
Presently Caviar and Pulse are exploring future avenues for working together in the U.S. Pulse is no stranger to the American ad market, having a while back been in an affiliation with production house Chelsea.
Founded in 2005 by Thomas Benski, Marisa Clifford and Ian Bonhote, Pulse Films is a talent management and integrated content production company with work spanning varied platforms. Pulse maintains five specialist stand-alone departments–Advertising, Fashion, Film, Music and TV.
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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