Martin Pazzani has been named president/CEO of Elias Arts, the bicoastal music/sound and brand identity company. He formerly served as senior VP/chief marketing officer at Bally Total Fitness, Chicago. Prior to that he was senior VP, worldwide director of The Chess Team at Foote, Cone & Belding, New York, where he led a global network of creative business and marketing strategists in uncovering new consumer insights and applying them to marketing challenges while working with major clients on six continents. Earlier Pazzani was managing director of New York-based marketing and advertising agency RocketScience. In his new role, he plans to split his time between Elias’ offices in New York and Santa Monica….Having spent the past three years dividing his time between Toronto-based Steam Films and Vapor Music Group, Roger Harris now turns his full attention to his role as president/creative director at Vapor. (Steam continues under the aegis of Jennifer Sykes and Dan Ford.) Harris’ experience spans music houses (a founder of Canada’s Harris Cole Wilde and Jungle Music) and ad agencies (director of broadcast for BBDO Toronto, deputy creative director/executive director of broadcast at Young & Rubicam, San Francisco). At Vapor, he teams with music director Gerry Mosby and music supervisor David Hayman….New York-based boutique Buzz provided audio mixing and creative finishing services for a six-spot Campbell’s Select campaign featuring John Lithgow. The commercials were directed by David LaChapelle of bicoastal/international HSI for BBDO New York. Buzz’s Michael Marinelli served as audio post mixer; Peter Flack of Buzz was the online editor. BBDO’s team included chief creative officer David Lubars, senior creative director Ed Maslow, associate creative director/copywriter/art director Anna Fader, exec producer Lisa Chrisman, director of music/radio production Rani Vaz and senior music producer Melissa Chester. Original music was composed by Dirty Rotten Scoundrel’s composer and lyricist, David Yazbeck…..
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."
It's the latest move by regulators on both sides of the Atlantic to crack down on the... Read More