Being on a creative treadmill doesn’t sound like too inviting a proposition–that is, unless you share the treadmill with some entertaining hamsters as agency David&Goliath has managed to do, initially with last year’s lauded “A New Way To Roll” for the Kia Soul, and now with a follow-up spot, “This or That,” which takes us to a bustling metropolis populated by hamsters from all walks of life.
In music video style and to the beat of the Black Sheep’s hip hop track “The Choice Is Yours,” our hero hamsters take us through a day in the life, cruising through town in their cool Alien Green Soul. But unlike the first commercial, the other less fortunate, jealous hamsters are in more than just monotonous hamster treadmill wheels. Now they ride about in dull mundane vehicles–toasters, washing machines and cardboard boxes.
Comparing their Soul to the other disappointing boxy rides, the hip hop fashion plate hero hamsters rap the song’s lyrics, “You can go with this” (the Soul) “or you can go with that” (a toaster vehicle, etc.).
Antoine Bardou Jacquet of Partizan directed “This or That,” with Guillermo Navarro serving as DP.
Editors were Jim Haygood of Union and Bill Smedley via Work Post, London. Framestore, London, handled visual effects
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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