Jim Elliott has been hired as chief creative officer of Young & Rubicam, New York. He is slated to start his new position in early June and will be responsible for overseeing creative direction and work for all of the agency’s clients including Land Rover, Campbell’s, Dell, LG, Dannon, Fisher-Price, Virgin Atlantic, Xerox and the National Hockey League.
Elliott is joining Y&R from Goodby, Silverstein & Partners, San Francisco, where he spent the past five years, serving most recently as group creative director, working on such accounts as Häagen-Dazs, Hyundai, Denny’s, HP, Yahoo! and Netflix. He also was part of the team that landed the Sonic Drive-In chain for Goodby.
Elliott’s work has garnered awards from Cannes, D&AD, One Show, CLIO, Kellys, ANDYs and the Effies. His work for both Nike and Häagen-Dazs has earned AICP Show honors and is on permanent display at the Museum of Modern Art. And his “Help the Honey Bees” campaign for the Häagen-Dazs won the first-ever Green Pencil awarded by the One Club.
Prior to Goodby, Elliott served as creative director and partner at Cole & Weber United in Seattle, Washington. Elliott came to Cole & Weber from Mullen Advertising.
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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