Natalie Lam, whose honors include Cyber Grand Prix and Titanium awards at the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity, is joining McCann NY as executive creative director. She comes over from OgilvyOne where she was regional creative director for Asia and exec creative director of OgilvyOne Shanghai.
Lam will work across agency accounts but also lead the charge to further strengthen all digital capabilities into a world-class digital creative offering at McCann.
Lam is the third high profile creative talent recruited by Linus Karlsson, chairman/chief creative officer of McCann NY and London, since he joined the agency in February 2011. The others were Matias Palm-Jensen, who joined as chief innovation officer for McCann Europe based out of McCann London, and Andreas Dahlqvist, who joined as vice chairman, executive creative director for McCann NY. The other ECDs in the NY agency are George Dewey, Craig Markus, Steve Ohler and Leslie Sims.
An international creative executive who combines an integrated and digital expertise, Lam has worked in New York, China and Asia. In New York, she was with R/GA from 2003-2008, most recently as creative director on the global and U.S. Nike+, NikeiD, and Nike running accounts.
In 2008, Lam, a native of Hong Kong, moved back to China to join OgilvyOne and became the first female and youngest regional creative director for OgilvyOne Asia.
In addition to Nike, her clients over the years have included MasterCard, Motorola, Sony, Volkswagen, Coca-Cola, Target, Procter & Gamble and Unilever.
Lam’s work has also won a Black Pencil at D&AD, Best of Show at the One Show Interactive, Best of Show at the Clio Awards, Best of Show at the International Andy Awards, a Gold Cube from the Art Directors Club and a Gold at the London International Awards, among other honors.
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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