Paterson Comes Over From CHI & Partners, London; He's Slated To Join DDB Effective June 21
Ewan Paterson is set to join DDB Chicago as chief creative officer effective June 21. He will report to Rick Carpenter, president/CEO of the agency.
Paterson comes over from London’s CHI & Partners where he served as executive creative director and managing partner. Among his notable work at CHI was the viral and interactive fare for Britvic’s Drench Water that helped catapult the brand to major player status in the bottled water market.
Paterson’s latest move marks his return to the DDB fold. Prior to his five years at integrated agendcy CHI, he was joint creative director at DDB London. He enjoyed a 10-year tenure there, working with such brands as Volkswagen, American Airlines and Sony. In ’04, DDB London placed runner-up for most awarded agency at Cannes.
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