Managing Partner
Station Film
1) I feel a creative revolution coming! Right now the business feels as fun and creative as I’ve seen in a long time. We’re seeing great creative that’s pushing, while working within the boundaries of the clients. 2017 has already started with a bang and we’re expecting it to continue.
2) To keep having fun and keep pushing ourselves creatively. They’re so many great opportunities to make people socially aware of what’s happening outside our personal bubbles. Station developed three relevant very topical projects last year that made us very proud and we’re already slated to create more in 2017. (Projects- #OneMoreDay, Motionpoems- How Do You Raise A Black Child and “Wake Up”)
3) As always to never make a decision based on money but always do what’s best creatively and somehow the money will work itself out.
4) To be a better husband, father and person every day.
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