Editor Alex Hagon has signed with Union Editorial for exclusive U.S. commercial representation. His credits include campaigns and projects for Gatorade (“Good Wade, Bad Wade”), Mastercard (“Favorite Things”) and Electrolux (“Table”). He was previously handled in the U.S. by Arcade.
Hagon started out as a runner at Red Square Editing in London, worked his way up to assistant, then to editor and eventually to partner. He then moved to Final Cut in London before heading stateside for three years to its New York office. He went on to work at Arcade in Los Angeles for a year before opening his own company in London.
Hagon’s most recent projects include commercials for the Anti Smoke Campaign (“Emerging Man”), EA Games (“Battlefield Bad Company 2”) and Ericsson (“The Thing You Cannot See”). He also worked on a short film for Nissan (Exit).
Union has offices in Santa Monica, New York and London. It maintains an alliance with Marshall Street Editors. Union is headed by partner/president Michael Raimondi, executive producer Megan Dahlman, and partner/executive producer Caryn MacLean. Hagon rounds out a roster comprised of partners/editors Jim Haygood, Einar, Jay Friedkin, Sloane Klevin and Geordie Anderson, and editors Nico Alba, Mike Colao, Jinx Godfrey, Nicholas Wayman-Harris, Laura Milstein, Marco Perez, Paul Plew, and Eric Argiro.
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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