By KATHY DeSALVO
Fast Cuts Edits, a full-service creative editorial house in Dallas, has added editor Shelby Miller to its lineup. Miller comes over from Dallas-based charlieuniformtango, where he has worked the last three years.
At charlieuniformtango (CUT), Miller had edited spots for Nationwide Insurance via Temerlin McClain, Irving, Tex.; Canada Dry out of Foote, Cone & Belding, Chicago; Midway Home Entertainment out of DDB Needham Dallas; Travelocity web site via The Richards Group, Dallas, and minor league hockey team Fort Worth Brahmas via Socket, Irving. When Miller joined CUT, he worked initially as an assistant to CUT principal/editor Jack Waldrip before being officially named editor a year and a half ago.
Prior to CUT, Miller worked briefly as an assistant at Dallas-based creative editorial shop Post Op; before this, he was at now-defunct Dallas-based postproduction house West End Post, which he joined in Dec. 94. While there, he worked as a tape operator, online graphics artist and Avid assistant.
Fast Cuts owner/editor Richard Gillespie commented, We are thrilled to have Shelby join our staff. He does quality work and has a wonderful comedic flair to his editorial style. He is a big part of our plans for growth and I know his clients will enjoy working with him here.
Miller related the idea of working at a smaller company appealed to him, as well as the opportunity to heighten his profile in the market. At charlieuniformtango, Id come up as an assistant, said Miller, so I was kind of low man on the totem pole there when it came to editors. Over here I have a better chance to be promoted more, because theres not as many editors and I also bring something different to Fast Cuts; they didnt have an editor whod done as much comedy as I had done. I stand out a little more here my reel is its own entity.
At Fast Cuts, Miller joins an editorial roster also composed of Marc Hoffmeister, Tim Lawler and Gillespie. Julie Bayer and Gerald Jones continue to serve as producers. Currently at Fast Cuts, Miller is cutting a project for Paramount Theme Parks out of Temerlin McClain.
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