Accomplice, a transmedia house active in commercials, branded entertainment for the web, mobile and social media, and feature films, has signed comedy director Trevor Cornish whose spot credits include McDonald’s, Budweiser and Comcast. Cornish had previously been repped by TWC, Santa Monica, and prior to that Twist, Minneapolis and New York.
Cornish broke into spot directing in his native Canada and then successfully extended his reach stateside. Back in 2006, his One Show Gold Pencil-winning spot, “Vending Machine” for Canadian football team The BC Lions Via Vancouver, B.C. agency Rethink, garnered him considerable attention from the American ad market. That same year he came aboard TWC.
At Accomplice, Cornish joins a directorial roster that includes Nicholaus Goossen, Jasper Gray, David Jellison, K+P, Guy Sagy, and Jamin Winans. With offices in Los Angeles, Chicago and Denver. Accomplice–which is under the aegis of founder/executive producer Jeff Snyder–also maintains a strategic partnership with Futuristic Films, a sister shop specializing in digital advertising and branded content.
Snyder was key in Cornish’s decision to join Accomplice. “Jeff has built Accomplice from the ground up to accommodate a new way of working,” said Cornish. “It’s not just about commercials, or even me being a commercial director. It’s about media from the traditional, to digital, to feature films; and how, in the end, we’re trying to tell a story or translate an idea to capture the audience’s attention, no matter what the medium is.”
Keeping true to this ethos, Cornish is currently in the midst of shooting an episode of Air Crash Investigation, a top-rated TV series for the National Geographic/UK and Discovery Channel. This fall, he will shoot his short film called Roland, which will hit the festival circuit next year.
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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