No Smoke, New York, has named Lori Youmans of Lori & Company to handle representation on the East Coast.
No Smoke, New York, has named Lori Youmans of Lori & Company to handle representation on the East Coast. Dave Dakich of Dbl.d has been secured to cover the Midwest, and Kimberley Griswold and Doug Sherin of Options will rep the production company on the West Coast…..London-based Rokkit has signed directors Mathew Cullen and Grady Hall of Venice, Calif.-based production company/design firm Motion Theory for commercial representation in the U.K., Belgium and Amsterdam. The directors work both separately and as a team…..Incubator Films, Santa Monica, has secured Marci Miles and Kristina Kovacevic of independent firm Reelize Reps to handle the Midwest….Dattner Dispoto and Associates, Los Angeles, is exclusively representing DPs Emmanual Kadosh (Land of the Blind, Lost City, Modigliani), Bobby Butkowski (The Hawk Is Dying, Saved!, Arlington Road) and Maryse Alberti (Velvet Goldmine, We Don’t Live Here Anymore, and this year’s recipient of the Kodak Vision Award for Cinematography) for feature films, TV commercials and music videos…..
Google Opens Its Defense In Antitrust Case Alleging Monopoly Over Online Ad Technology
Google opened its defense against allegations that it holds an illegal monopoly on online advertising technology Friday with witness testimony saying the industry is vastly more complex and competitive than portrayed by the federal government.
"The industry has been exceptionally fluid over the last 18 years," said Scott Sheffer, a vice president for global partnerships at Google, the company's first witness at its antitrust trial in federal court in Alexandria.
The Justice Department and a coalition of states contend that Google built and maintained an illegal monopoly over the technology that facilitates the buying and selling of online ads seen by consumers.
Google counters that the government's case improperly focuses on a narrow type of online ads — essentially the rectangular ones that appear on the top and on the right-hand side of a webpage. In its opening statement, Google's lawyers said the Supreme Court has warned judges against taking action when dealing with rapidly emerging technology like what Sheffer described because of the risk of error or unintended consequences.
Google says defining the market so narrowly ignores the competition it faces from social media companies, Amazon, streaming TV providers and others who offer advertisers the means to reach online consumers.
Justice Department lawyers called witnesses to testify for two weeks before resting their case Friday afternoon, detailing the ways that automated ad exchanges conduct auctions in a matter of milliseconds to determine which ads are placed in front of which consumers and how much they cost.
The department contends the auctions are finessed in subtle ways that benefit Google to the exclusion of would-be competitors and in ways that prevent... Read More