Euro RSCG Chicago has hired Lisa Leone as a creative director, a role which will see her head the agency's business with packaging company Reynolds Group and liquor brands Effen, Hornitos, Pucker and Sauza, and contribute to other agency clients and new business efforts. She joins Euro RSCG after more than five years of freelance experience with several agencies, including DDB, Y&R, Campbell Mithun, Grey, Nitro, Downtown Partners and Leo Burnett. As a consultant on creative, planning and management for new business pitches, Leone's brand experience includes Citibank, Sears, Wrigley, Finlandia, Miller Genuine Draft, Northwestern Mutual, Northern Trust and Walgreens. Previously Leone served as VP/creative director with BBDO Chicago. Also coming aboard Euro RSCG Chicago is Elena Robinson who's been named the shop's first director of integrated production. Her background includes having overseen day-to-day production at Liquid Thread and IP Pixel, for both of which she served as director of production and executive producer. Robinson has twice before overseen client work with Euro RSCG, first as a senior producer, then as a senior interactive producer…..Steven Gray has been promoted to creative director at mixed media house Radar Studios, acting as point person on animation and design projects, both for clients and for the company's live-action directors. Since joining Radar in 2006, he has worked on every major animation job that's come through the studio, including recent campaigns for Samsung's Galaxy S smartphone and Galaxy Tab, as well as multiple spots for NASCAR and McDonald's. Also moving up the ranks at Radar is 3D artist Mark Angres, who will now head up the 3D department…
TikTok’s Fate Arrives At Supreme Court; Arguments Center On Free Speech and National Security
In one of the most important cases of the social media age, free speech and national security collide at the Supreme Court on Friday in arguments over the fate of TikTok, a wildly popular digital platform that roughly half the people in the United States use for entertainment and information.
TikTok says it plans to shut down the social media site in the U.S. by Jan. 19 unless the Supreme Court strikes down or otherwise delays the effective date of a law aimed at forcing TikTok's sale by its Chinese parent company.
Working on a tight deadline, the justices also have before them a plea from President-elect Donald Trump, who has dropped his earlier support for a ban, to give him and his new administration time to reach a "political resolution" and avoid deciding the case. It's unclear if the court will take the Republican president-elect's views — a highly unusual attempt to influence a case — into account.
TikTok and China-based ByteDance, as well as content creators and users, argue the law is a dramatic violation of the Constitution's free speech guarantee.
"Rarely if ever has the court confronted a free-speech case that matters to so many people," lawyers for the users and content creators wrote. Content creators are anxiously awaiting a decision that could upend their livelihoods and are eyeing other platforms.
The case represents another example of the court being asked to rule about a medium with which the justices have acknowledged they have little familiarity or expertise, though they often weigh in on meaty issues involving restrictions on speech.
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