A van is parked next to the gas station pumps at a combo fuel stop/convenience store late at night. Two guys are seated in the front of the van. One asks the other, “How’s the mascot?”
The response: “Sleeping like a baby.”
Well, not so fast.
Suddenly we see emerge from the backseat an ornery steer with two long, large, pointed horns.
The bum steer is growling, bellowing and kicking, causing the van to rock back and forth–and the two guys to abandon the vehicle.
The steer continues to knock the van about, the force breaking the front driver’s side window. The van then rolls off, powered by an incensed mascot.
A supered message simply reads, “Nothing good happens after midnight.”
This is followed by the super, “Except Denny’s”
Brendan Gibbons of bicoastal/international Station Film directed this :15 for Publicis, Dallas.
Caroline Gibney and Michael DiGirolamo exec produced for Station with Mark Fetterman serving as producer. The DP was Shawn Kim.
The Publicis ensemble consisted of executive creative director Shon Rathbone, creative director/writer Steve Grimes, creative director/art director Peter Voehringer.
Editor was Keith James of Red Car, Dallas.
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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