Cannes Lions has announced the presidents for the Film Craft, Design and Radio categories at this year’s International Festival of Creativity. The jury presidents will come to Cannes to preside over their juries for the 2012 Festival, taking place from June 17-23.
Director Ivan Zacharias of Stink, U.K., and Smuggler in the U.S., will lead this year’s Film Craft Lions Jury. Zacharias’ most notable work includes “Impossible Dream” for Honda, “Born Free” for Land Rover, “Smile” for Volkswagen Beetle, and “Doctor” for Stella Artois. He has also directed Hollywood actors Gael Garcia Bernal for Levi’s out of BBH NY as well as Harvey Keitel and Jude Law in pieces for the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival. Zacharias’ commercials have won more than 100 awards over the years, including seven Gold Lions.
Leading the Design Lions Jury will be Bruce Duckworth, creative director, Turner Duckworth, U.K. After working as a designer at Michael Peters, Minale Tattersfield and Lewis Moberly, Duckworth started the brand design agency Turner Duckworth in 1992 with his friend and fellow designer David Turner. With agencies based in San Francisco and London, Duckworth runs the London office and is jointly responsible for Turner Duckworth’s creative output with Turner. Both studios work collaboratively on all projects, which gives a unique design viewpoint. He has won over 200 design awards including D&AD, DBA Design Effectiveness, Design Week and a Cannes Lions Grand Prix for Coca-Cola. His work has been published in many design books and magazines all over the world and he is an in demand speaker for design and marketing conferences as well as design education.
Rob McLennan, executive creative director, Net#work BBDO, South Africa, will take the helm of the Radio Lions Jury. Winning a multitude of awards over the years, Rob has been responsible for many memorable campaigns including Dulux’s “Any Colour you can Think of”, Axe’s “Get a Girlfriend,” Virgin Atlantic’s “Plain Insanity” and Mercedes-Benzs’ “Accident Avoidance.” Net#work BBDO is one of South Africa’s leading agencies and has won three of South Africa’s six Cannes Lions Grands Prix honors, including two Radio Grands Prix (2009 and 2001), with McLennan amassing an impressive collection of 35 Lions.
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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