Jonathan Shipman has been named head of integrated production in the New York office of visual effects, animation and digital production company Framestore. With more than 25 years of production experience in advertising, Shipman will add a broad range of skills and unique business perspective to Framestore NY as the company transitions into a new stage of growth. He will report directly to Jon Collins, president of Framestore.
Previously, Shipman was head of integrated production at McCann Erickson, where he was instrumental in establishing and growing the company’s integrated production offering for major brands, including Dentyne, General Mills, Nestle Waters, MasterCard, Kohl’s and Nikon.
Shipman spent the past 12 years at McCann Erickson, starting out as an executive producer and moving up the ranks to deputy head of production, and finally head of integrated production. He is distinguished for creating the company’s first-ever integrated department, and evolving its postproduction facility from strictly client services and new business operations into high-end creative.
Prior to McCann, he was a senior producer at Ogilvy & Mather, where he worked on accounts that included Jaguar, Amex, Kimberly Clark and Kraft. Shipman began his career at DMB&B.
Collins said that Shipman will help accelerate Framestore’s continued evolution into a team of creative, strategic problem solvers.”
Recently, Framestore worked with The Coca Cola Company to help produce the “Polar Bowl,” the second-screen engagement that attracted more than 600,000 viewers during the 2012 Super Bowl and received worldwide attention. It also partnered with Drive Productions to create a 4D projection on the Maritime Hotel in New York for Hewlett Packard’s new Z800 workstation. The animation, called “Elf Factory,” featured Santa’s helpers busy at work constructing the new HP device debuting during the holidays.
Framestore is an Oscar-winning visual effects company (The Golden Compass), creates images for every platform and is regarded as a leading U.K. authority on stereoscopic 3D. In addition to working for Hollywood studios, advertisers, ad agencies, production and gaming companies, Framestore also generates its own paid-for content, including: VFX in Your Pocket and Polar Peril.
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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