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    Click 3X hires Camille Geier to spearhead studio operations

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    Partnership also formed with feature film house Rodeo FX

    NEW YORK --

    Digital creative studio Click 3X has added Camille Geier as executive producer. In this role, Geier will lead all studio operations, including spearheading business development and recruiting new talent. Geier brings with her a partnership with Rodeo FX, an award-winning visual effects company headquartered in Montreal, where she was previously executive producer. As part of the collaboration, Click 3X will represent all advertising work for Rodeo FX across the U.S.

    Geier has an extensive VFX and animation background, working in advertising, production and the feature film worlds on films including Unbroken, Gangs of New York, Deconstructing Harry, Starship Troopers, and Magnolia. In her previous role as EP at Rodeo FX, she oversaw the launch and expansion of its U.S. advertising division.

    Prior to Rodeo FX, Geier was COO/head of studio for animation company Curious Pictures, home to over 150 artists ranging from directors, visual development artists, and animators. She acted as supervising producer for the award winning Nick Jr. series, Team Umizoomi, and oversaw all commercials, features, games, digital and TV. Geier also held the COO/EP position at Rhinofx, a visual effects facility in New York City, and before that as an EP at ILM.

    Click 3X will use its extensive relationships within the postproduction and advertising world to collaborate on projects with Rodeo FX. This will enable Click 3X to access Rodeo’s state of the art VFX capabilities, adding to its already established resources and capabilities in the production space. Click 3X will handle all sales and talent management for Rodeo FX within the U.S. market.

    “I am thrilled to reunite with Camille and to partner up with Click 3X,” said André Ü Montambeault, head of advertising at Rodeo FX. “Combining Click 3X’s enviable position in the post-production and advertising world with our VFX talent and expertise will create great opportunities to achieve projects that will be creatively and technically challenging.”

    Rodeo FX delivers cinematic creations of picturesque environments and has contributed to over 70 feature films and television shows including Game of Thrones (Seasons 4 & 5), Birdman, Unbroken, and Furious 7.  Rodeo FX’s advertising division also created the opening sequence for NBC’s Sunday Night Football and this year’s NFL Super Bowl. Since its inception in 2006, Rodeo has grown to over 250 visual effects professionals across its flagship in Montreal and other locations.

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    Apple and Google Face UK Investigation Into Mobile Browser Dominance

    Saturday, November 23, 2024

    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."

    It's the latest move by regulators on both sides of the Atlantic to crack down on the... Read More

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