Matt Bonin, formerly VP/integrated head of production at Crispin Porter + Bogusky, Boulder, Colo., will join effective Sept. 1 agency/production hybrid Trailer Park Inc. as senior VP, director of integrated production, a newly created position at the company, which consists of Trailer Park Entertainment, an entertainment marketing agency, and Trailer Park Studios, a division which services non-entertainment clients.
Bonin will be responsible for the strategic guidance and leadership of Trailer Park’s integrated production services spanning the areas of digital, design and film. The combined production departments total 200-plus staff serving a broad range of entertainment and non-entertainment clients.
Bonin helped to shape Crispin’s integrated production department and helped grow it to over 100+ employees. Work he has either produced or supervised has been awarded nearly every industry accolade, including the highly-coveted Cannes Cyber, Titanium and Grand Prix Lions. He’s worked on such clients as Burger King, Volkswagen, Microsoft and Domino’s. Earlier in his career, Bonin was a producer at Y&R New York and DDB.
“Brands have more consumer touch-points than ever . . . Internet, social media, broadcast, retail, mobile and more. Trailer Park’s full-scale, in house production capabilities represent an arsenal of creative tools at our fingertips. It allows us to meet the increased need for content at the pace of the digital marketplace. Trailer Park’s creative staff, combined with its state-of-the-art production facility, enables the agency to truly function real-time,” stated Bonin.
Trailer Park, owned by private equity group Lake Capital, is led by agency veteran Rick Eiserman. Clients include Netflix, Orbitz, 2K Games, Sony, MySpace, Viacom and Disney.
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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