Great Guns has signed director Adam Cameron for global representation. He had most recently been handled stateside by Limey.
Among his recent endeavors are a Movistar piece featuring an Icelandic soccer team for DDB Madrid, and a pair of Chili’s spots for Hill Holliday, Boston. The former, which features the entertainingly offbeat goal-scoring celebrations of the football team, has gained pan-European exposure on both TV and cinema.
And the Chili’s fare, recently covered in the New York Times, includes a spot, “Boom, Boom, Boom,” in which a male office worker asks a female colleague if she wants to go to Chili’s with him that night. She breaks out into song, responding in the voice of bluesman John Lee Hooker.
Other Cameron directorial credits include spots for Lebron James Home Court furniture out of Mullen, Winston-Salem, N.C., Mobil featuring Lewis Hamilton and Tony Stewart for McCann, New York; and the Virginia Tobacco Settlement Fund via Barber Martin, Richmond, Va. For the latter, Cameron’s comedic spot titled “Forest” earned inclusion last year into SHOOT‘s “The Best Work You May Never See” gallery.
Cameron’s work is largely of an understated comedic tone. The director said he joined Great Guns for its global reach, including its mainstay U.K. operation under the aegis of company founder Laura Gregory, as well as its U.S. foothold headed by managing director Tom Korsan. While Cameron continues to maintain relationships with production houses Tesauro, Madrid and Barcelona, through which he helmed the Movistar project, and H Films in Milan, Great Guns will be in charge of his overall workload both in the U.S. and internationally.
Cameron has been directing solo for some four years. He made his first major directorial splash as half of the Joe Public duo with Simon Cole. Joe Public twice earned DGA Award nominations as Best Commercial Director of the Year on the basis of work done in 1999 and 2001. Joe Public split in late ’06, with Cameron’s first roost as an individual helmer being Biscuit Filmworks, followed by Company, and then Limey.
Great Guns maintains offices in Venice, Calif., London, Prague, Mumbai, Shanghai and Singapore.
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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