Collective, a New York-based production house, has hired Ivy Dane as executive producer. The move marks the culmination of Dane’s longstanding collaboration with Collective director/partner David McNamara.
She earlier spent two years as a freelance producer with the company before that relationship evolved into a virtually exclusive partnership. Now she comes on staff. Her most recent work via Collective includes an integrated PSA campaign for the Robin Hood Foundation, as well as projects for the U.S. Marine Corps, AARP, Cox Communications, and Marathon Oil.
Previously based in Austin, Texas, Dane has extensive freelance production experience which has seen her work with assorted directors, ad agencies and brands (Nike, McDonald’s, Sears, AT&T, Dell). In addition to spots, Dane has been involved in film and music video. In the latter arena she has to her credit collaborations with Shania Twain, Kenny Rogers, Lyle Lovett and Sara Evans.
Collective sports a newly remodeled production studio as well as directors McNamara and Jeremy Warshaw. Dane is looking to expand the company’s directorial roster. Beyond its core production house business, Collective offers production service support to foreign productions. And internationally Collective has established strategic alliances with top production service companies in Argentina, Australia, Canada, Eastern Europe, Ireland, the U.K., Japan, New Zealand and South Africa.
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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