Global creative audio network Squeak E. Clean Studios has added sound designer Ryan Dickinson to its recently launched Melbourne studio. Dickinson has over 15 years of international audio production experience, working for advertising agencies including Ogilvy, Saatchi and Colenso BBDO. His experience spans work for such brands as Samsung, Adidas, Coca-Cola, Burger King, EA Games and Gameloft. At Oglivy, his sound design and mixing for the “Do You Care Enough to Be A Cop” campaign earned him two Gold and one Silver Effie Award. A soundie at heart, with a music performing background, Dickinson has a keen ear for talent performance and musical mastery in branded content spots.
In addition to his successful career in sound design and audio mixing, Dickinson is a sought-after musical talent, having been commissioned to remix artists like Grammy Award-winner Gotye and The Crystal Method. Most recently, he lent his prowess as one half of the production duo “Otosan,” producing house music hits with appearances on the U.S. Billboard Dance Charts, NZ Charts, and ARIA Club Charts. Their work has taken in over 2 million streams on Spotify in the past year.
Australian-born Dickinson studied music at Griffith University. He then embarked on a career in sound production and design for advertising. After a successful stint at NZ company Franklin Rd in Auckland, he most recently spent a year lending his talents to a number of shops in Amsterdam, mixing audio for studios such as AMP Amsterdam, Adelphoi Music, Casual Films, Smarthouse Films, and Virtual Sound.
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