We are thrust into a wind tunnel where a motorcyclist is seated on his Ducati bike braving a continuous mighty gust in order to put the vehicle through its aerodynamic paces. A co-worker in a lab coat approaches the biker/tech person, posing the comical query, “Are you busy?”
He’s hoping to get the man perched on the Ducati to divert his attention to a bunch of papers which are the content of a tech manual that needs to be translated into Portuguese–by tomorrow.
The wind then gets hold of the papers, forcefully blowing them all about.
A voiceover intervenes that Ducati realizes the prudence of having Xerox manage all its global publications so that it can instead focus on building amazing bikes. This provides a smooth segue to the campaign slogan, “Xerox, ready for real business.”
Jim Jenkins of O Positive directed for Young & Rubicam, New York. Visual effects house was The Mill, New York.
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