SANTA MONICA-Cindy Carey, formerly a staff producer at Nomad Editing Company, has become executive producer at Crazy Horse Editorial. Both companies are based in Santa Monica.
Carey succeeds Darcy Feinstein, who has joined Whipping Post Editorial, a Hollywood shop in the process of relocating to Portland, Ore. (See story, p. 8.)
Carey will work closely with general manager Jeff Yuen to provide support for clientele and a Crazy Horse ensemble that includes founders/editors Noel Oliver and Steve Svendsen as well as cutters Jeff Hinman and Scott Hunter, editor/compositor/effects artist Josh Kirschenbaum (who runs the company’s Jaleo system) and Mac artist Chris Secrest.
Whereas Feinstein was exec. producing via a virtual office in Portland, Carey will work out of Crazy Horse’s facility. Oliver said that having Carey in-house would be a plus.
Carey was Nomad’s producer for the past year and a half. Her r sum also includes three tours of duty at Red Car, the last as operations director in its Santa Monica facility. In between her Red Car stints, Carey served in different capacities, including as an associate producer at film trailer shop Seismic, Hollywood.
-Millie Takaki
Google Opens Its Defense In Antitrust Case Alleging Monopoly Over Online Ad Technology
Google opened its defense against allegations that it holds an illegal monopoly on online advertising technology Friday with witness testimony saying the industry is vastly more complex and competitive than portrayed by the federal government.
"The industry has been exceptionally fluid over the last 18 years," said Scott Sheffer, a vice president for global partnerships at Google, the company's first witness at its antitrust trial in federal court in Alexandria.
The Justice Department and a coalition of states contend that Google built and maintained an illegal monopoly over the technology that facilitates the buying and selling of online ads seen by consumers.
Google counters that the government's case improperly focuses on a narrow type of online ads — essentially the rectangular ones that appear on the top and on the right-hand side of a webpage. In its opening statement, Google's lawyers said the Supreme Court has warned judges against taking action when dealing with rapidly emerging technology like what Sheffer described because of the risk of error or unintended consequences.
Google says defining the market so narrowly ignores the competition it faces from social media companies, Amazon, streaming TV providers and others who offer advertisers the means to reach online consumers.
Justice Department lawyers called witnesses to testify for two weeks before resting their case Friday afternoon, detailing the ways that automated ad exchanges conduct auctions in a matter of milliseconds to determine which ads are placed in front of which consumers and how much they cost.
The department contends the auctions are finessed in subtle ways that benefit Google to the exclusion of would-be competitors and in ways that prevent... Read More