Formerly head of production at Omelet, and director of broadcast & content production at Deutsch LA
Bicoastal Spot Welders has hired industry vet Victoria Guenier as executive producer and director of development. Working closely with co-founder and managing partner David Glean and EP Carolina Wallace and Joanne Ferraro, Guenier will be involved in growing business at Spot Welders and developing talent in the merging worlds of entertainment and advertising.
Guenier’s experience includes almost 20 years on the agency side working with clients such as IBM, Target, HTC, Motorola, Microsoft, and PlayStation. Most recently, she worked as head of production at boutique agency Omelet, which specializes in branded entertainment, content and advertising. Prior to that, Guenier was director of broadcast and content production at Deutsch LA. At the latter she was part of the team behind Volkswagen’s “The Force,” not only a major success on the Super Bowl but also a viral phenomenon directed by Lance Acord of Park Pictures. In addition to her agency career, Guenier has exec produced indie features and documentaries.
Crossing over now into the world of postproduction, Guenier brings her insider expertise to guide the creative process from start to finish with Spot Welder’s collaborative team of editors, and VFX artists at sister company Shipping+Handling.
Spot Welders maintains shops in Venice, Calif., and midtown Manhattan.
Judge Gives US Justice Dept. Until December To Propose Penalties For Google’s Illegal Search Monopoly
A federal judge on Friday gave the U.S. Justice Department until the end of the year to outline how Google should be punished for illegally monopolizing the internet search market and then prepare to present its case for imposing the penalties next spring.
The loose-ended timeline sketched out by U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta came during the first court hearing since he branded Google as a ruthless monopolist in a landmark ruling issued last month.
Mehta's decision triggered the need for another phase of the legal process to determine how Google should be penalized for years of misconduct and forced to make other changes to prevent potential future abuses by the dominant search engine that's the foundation of its internet empire.
Attorneys for the Justice Department and Google were unable to reach a consensus on how the time frame for the penalty phase should unfold in the weeks leading up to Friday's hearing in Washington D.C., prompting Mehta to steer them down the road that he hopes will result in a decision on the punishment before Labor Day next year.
To make that happen, Mehta indicated he would like the trial in the penalty phase to happen next spring. The judge said March and April look like the best months on his court calendar.
If Mehta's timeline pans out, a ruling on Google's antitrust penalties would come nearly five years after the Justice Department filed the lawsuit that led to a 10-week antitrust trial last autumn. That's similar to the timeline Microsoft experienced in the late 1990s when regulators targeted them for its misconduct in the personal computer market.
The Justice Department hasn't yet given any inkling on how severely Google should be punished. The most likely targets are the long-running... Read More