Susan Credle, global chief creative officer of FCB, has been named chairperson of the 2017 AMP Awards for Music + Sound. Credle will help lead the AMP Awards’ new Curatorial Committee, which will be tasked with ensuring that all finalists meet the criteria for their respective categories. The Curatorial Committee also selects the competition’s prestigious Best in Show winner. The AMP Awards competition is sponsored by the Association of Music Producers.
“Music is manipulative. It can bring tears to your eyes. Make your heart pound. Terrify you. Music is the emotional igniter of ideas,” said Credle. “As Chair of the AMP Awards, I’m grateful to have the opportunity to reflect on the impact music has on our industry.”
Credle was the unanimous choice of the AMP Awards Board of Governors, an honorary group made up of past AMP Awards chairs, to serve as 2017 chair. “They recognized her role as a visionary creative leader who’s always been passionate about the power of music and sound in advertising and highly respectful towards the companies and individuals who work in the craft,” said Jason Menkes, president of AMP, who is also partner and EP at COPILOT Music + Sound in New York. “We’re honored that someone of Susan’s stature has agreed to serve in this role as we mark the AMP Awards’ fifth anniversary, and we’re excited about the insight and experience she’s going to bring to our judging process.”
Credle was named to her current post at FCB in June of 2015. Prior to that she was chief creative officer at Leo Burnett in Chicago, a post she accepted in 2009 after having spent over two decades at BBDO in New York. Among the work she’s been responsible for are Allstate’s “Mayhem” campaign while at Burnett and the iconic M&M’s anthropomorphic “human” spots while at BBDO. A graduate of the University of North Carolina, she recalls being drawn to the ad industry after watching director Ridley Scott’s legendary “Share the Fantasy” spot for Chanel. Parallels are often drawn between the fictional Peggy Olson from “Mad Men” and Credle’s career arc, as she started out as an intern at BBDO and moved up the ranks to become EVP, executive creative director.
An important voice representing gender diversity in advertising, Credle has received numerous industry accolades, including the Chicago Advertising Federation’s Chicago Ad Woman of the Year in 2013, and Business Insider’s Most Creative Women in Advertising lists and induction into the AAF’s Hall of Achievement.
The AMP Awards – which includes the annual AMP Hall of Fame induction ceremony –brings together professionals from the music, advertising, marketing and entertainment worlds to celebrate the best of the best. Prior inductees into AMP’s Hall of Fame have included Volkswagen, Coca- Cola, McDonald’s, Budweiser, Nike, Chevrolet and Pepsi.
The AMP Awards Call for Entries closes on Feb. 24, 2017. To upload entries, click here to access the AMP Awards portal. The awards presentation will be held on Tuesday, May 23, at the Diamond Horseshoe at the Paramount Hotel in the Theatre District.
The AMP Awards are the only U.S.-based, not-for-profit competition in advertising and branding dedicated to honoring achievements in music and sound in all media. This year’s awards also marks the 20th Anniversary of the founding of its sponsoring organization, the Association of Music Producers, which was founded in 1997 to promote the work of advertising’s music and sound companies and audio mixing and recording facilities.
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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