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    Street Talk for May 20, 2022

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    Afterhrs. founders Thelonious Brooks (l) and Kai Regan
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    Thelonious Brooks and Kai Regan have launched Afterhrs., a content studio based in Los Angeles. Longtime friends, collaborators and now partners, Brooks and Regan–producer and director, respectively–came of age with the street scene in New York, the ingenuity and artfulness of which permeated and informed their work in various genres: branded content, music videos, films, and multimedia experiences. Among them, the award-winning features We Are Not Cats directed by Xander Robin, and director Jim Hosking’s The Greasy Strangler. Last year, Brooks and Regan’s pilot These Days, produced with Peter Saraf and Big Beach, was featured in the Indie series section of Sundance. Brooks also produced the pilot presentation for Starz’ widely celebrated Vida also for Big Beach. Regan was a founding partner of Alldayeveryday and has directed advertising projects for many brands and agencies; Brooks was sr. producer for Gloria Content and EP of my his service company, Behemoth Production. He has also been a line producer for such directors as Jeremy Saulnier, Diego Luna and Rodrigo Valdes. Over the years, Brooks and Regan found a calling in the curation of artist development; inclusive and diverse storytelling talent. Among the many artists with whom Afterhrs. is collaborating on a nonexclusive basis (affording the studio with the flexibility to match the right storyteller to select narrative projects) are Sunbeam (aka Dean Fleischer-Camp and Nick Paley, whose upcoming live action and animated film Marcel the Shell with Shoes On is being released through A24), writer/director Maegan Houang (Counterpart, Three Busy Debras), writer/director Harry Israelson, photographer, curator and filmmaker Manon Macasaet, Australian documentary and commercial director Selina Miles, visionary photographer Jason Al Taan, director Petra Collins, Hans Emanuel and Nick Cammilieri. The company launches with two national campaigns–Starbucks directed by Collins in collaboration with the Scholar animation team, and Icyhot directed by Emanuel and supported by UPP VFX. Brooks and Regan are in development on the feature debut of Cammilieri, whose docu series Lady and The Dale premiered on HBO Max and was recently nominated for Independent Spirit and GLAAD awards. The film will go into production at the end of this year. Afterhrs. Is represented by Devine Reps for advertising and branded content projects on both coasts….

    Tampa, Fla.-based ad agency PPK has hired creative director David Smail, who is joining its creative team of 19 and reporting to executive creative director Paul Prato. Smail will be leading creative work for Bridgestone Retail Operations at PPK, a legacy client who has been with the agency for 14 years. Having spent his entire career in the advertising industry, Smail brings with him a wealth of expertise from his time as a freelancer, the founder and owner of a BBDO office in Vietnam, an advertising professor at the University of Colorado at Boulder and more. He has worked on projects with a wide variety of brands throughout his career, including PepsiCo, Nike, Twitter, Dove, Harley Davidson, Jim Beam, Kodak and FedEx….

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    A Closer Look At Proposed Measures Designed To Curb Google’s Search Monopoly

    Thursday, November 21, 2024

    U.S. regulators are proposing aggressive measures to restore competition to the online search market after a federal judge ruled Google maintained an illegal monopoly for the last decade.

    The sweeping set of recommendations filed late Wednesday by the U.S. Department of Justice could radically alter Google's business, including possibly spinning off the Chrome web browser and syndicating its search data to competitors. Even if the courts adopt the blueprint, Google isn't likely to make any significant changes until 2026 at the earliest, because of the legal system's slow-moving wheels.

    Here's what it all means:

    What is the Justice Department's goal?
    Federal prosecutors are cracking down on Google in a case originally filed during near the end of then-President Donald Trump's first term. Officials say the main goal of these proposals is to get Google to stop leveraging its dominant search engine to illegally squelch competition and stifle innovation.

    "The playing field is not level because of Google's conduct, and Google's quality reflects the ill-gotten gains of an advantage illegally acquired," the Justice Department asserted in its recommendations. "The remedy must close this gap and deprive Google of these advantages."

    Not surprisingly, Google sees things much differently. The Justice Department's "wildly overbroad proposal goes miles beyond the Court's decision," Kent Walker, Google's chief legal officer, asserted in a blog post. "It would break a range of Google products — even beyond search — that people love and find helpful in their everyday lives."

    It's still possible that the Justice Department could ease off on its attempts to break up Google, especially if President-elect Donald Trump... Read More

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