Matt Collier and Wayne Robinson, formerly of CHI & Partners in London, have come aboard DDB Chicago as creative directors. The move reunites the creative team with Ewan Paterson, chief creative officer of DDB Chicago; the three had worked together at CHI & Partners.
At DDB Chicago, Collier and Robinson will be tasked with collaborating on ideas across the agency’s account roster. Over the years, they have done notable work for such clients as Shell, Nestle, 888.com, Toyota, Mazda, Kellogg’s, News International, Britvic, Tiger Beer, and Friends of the Earth. This year, Collier and Robinson were widely lauded for their Sunday Times “Rich List” print campaign which earned a coveted D&AD Yellow Pencil. Collier and Robinson have also been featured in D&AD each of the five years they worked at CHI & Partners, for five different clients.
Collier and Robinson join DDB Chicago on the heels of the agency winning Pepsi’s Sierra Mist account and following its recent win of several new Mars Chocolate and Wrigley brands, including Starburst®, Skittles®, Milky Way®, Combos® and Balisto® to be led out of Chicago.
The creative team is also the latest in a spate of new hires in the Chicago office as Paterson has reshaped the creative department over the past year. Among the talent that has recently joined the agency are Alex Braxton and Alistair Robertson as creative directors, Eric Johnson as executive producer of music and integration, Jonathan Sackett as chief digital officer and Azher Ahmed as director of digital operations.
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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