Philip Detchmendy–most recently a partner/executive producer at Paranoid, and prior to that managing director with Tool of North America–has come aboard New York-headquartered Humble as its L.A.-based executive producer. He joins a Humble management team of founder/exec producer Eric Berkowitz, director of marketing Dawn Goodburn and head of production Persis Koch.
Detchmendy, who also served earlier in his career as exec producer of the since closed Satellite, said he was drawn to the flexibility and versatility of the Humble business model, which spans production, creative development, postproduction and any combination thereof.
This mesh of creativity and scalable start-to-finish solutions, he contended, makes the Humble model relevant in today’s marketplace.
The Humble directorial roster includes Melissa Silverman, Sam Stephens, Ariel Danziger, Ben Hartenstein, Alan Poon, Jimmy Diebold, the creative collective Hydra, and John Hobbs and Jeff Bitsack.
The latter two are former notable agency artisans, with Bitsack added to the Humble fold earlier this year (SHOOT, 6/19) after having served as executive creative director at Euro RSCG, New York. The agency pedigrees of Hobbs (BBH and Lowe, New York) and Bitsack reflect in part Humble’s earlier alluded to creative chops. Bitsack is no stranger to the director’s chair. Back when he was exec creative director at JWT New York, he directed a Domino’s viral campaign that garnered multiple Clios and an Emmy nomination. Earlier he logged time as a writer and/or creative director at top agencies including Wieden+Kennedy in both Portland, Ore., and New York, as well as N.Y. shops Cliff Freeman and Partners, Merkley & Partners, Ogilvy & Mather, Toy, BBH, and BBDO.
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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