Deutsch Los Angeles has hired Matt Ian to partner with Michael Kadin in leading creative initiatives on the Volkswagen account. Ian is best known for developing the creative that launched the Axe brand in the U.S. Ian and Kadin, both executive VPs/group creative directors, report directly to Mark Hunter, Deutsch LA’s chief creative officer.
Ian comes to Deutsch from Crispin Porter+Bogusky in Boulder, where he was creative director on the Microsoft Windows business. Prior to CP+B, Ian spent nine years at BBH in New York, writing and directing innovative and distinguished campaigns for a host of marquee brands, including Johnnie Walker, Levi’s, Vitamin Water, Smirnoff Raw Tea (“Tea Partay”), Sprite, and Axe. He also spent time at both TBWAChiatDay and Ogilvy in New York before landing at BBH in 2002.
Ian has earned top honors from virtually all the major industry award shows–One Show Pencils, Cannes Lions, Clios, and Kelly Awards. He began his career in art direction upon graduating from the Art Center College of Design in Pasedana, Calif., in 1996.
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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