Liz Sivell has joined digital agency R/GA’s London office as creative director, assuming a lead role on the global Nokia e-marketing account, as well as other core pieces of business. She reports to executive creative director James Temple.
Prior to R/GA, Sivell was creative director for Profero in London from June 2007 to Aug. ’09. Whle there she oversaw the C.O.I-FRANK account for which she spearheaded campaigns to prevent drug abuse among teens.
Earlier Sivell served as creative director for OneDigital in Australia over nearly a five year span. Her work at the shop included devleoping an interactive online ordering system for Pizza Hut Direct, creating interactive screen savers and kiosks for Hyundai dealers, and building interactive music banners, CMS flash sites and other fare.
Sivell has earned assorted awards, most notably for her work on the FRANK cocaine campaign, including the Gold World Medal, Mouse Awards Bronze, and Webby Awards honoree in best visual design and government. She also won a One Show Silver Pencil for her part in developing an interactive installation for the launch of the adidas_1shoe.
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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