Cabin Editing Company is expanding to New York with a new office led by managing partner Maggie Meade. The East Coast launch follows a period of growth for the company, as remote capabilities enabled Cabin to reach new clients across the U.S. and internationally.
“Cabin has seen sustained momentum in recent years and it felt like the right time to officially establish a physical presence on the East Coast–and I knew that Maggie would be the perfect person to lead it,” said Carr Schilling, managing partner at Cabin Los Angeles. “Maggie brings an established track record of success and of being a pioneer–always one of the first in the industry to try a new way of doing things. She has an incredible depth of knowledge of the industry from both the agency and production sides.”
Meade is an accomplished advertising industry veteran. She co-founded the hybrid production studio Sibling Rivalry in 2011 with Joe Wright and Mikon van Gastel, and oversaw sales and operations for the company for almost a decade. The studio brought together directors, producers, animators, designers, writers, and strategists to create content for consumer brands and television networks alike. Previously she led the in-house design agency at RadicalMedia from 2007-2012. Earlier she was one of the original employees of Droga5, where she served as the agency’s first director of creative innovation and produced various award-winning projects including UNICEF’s “Tap Project,” which earned a Titanium Lion at Cannes.
“I’ve known Carr for many years and we’ve always been totally aligned on how we see the industry and what we want it to become in the future,” shared Meade. “My career trajectory has always been to do something a little different with each new opportunity, and the chance to run a postproduction company was really exciting–especially with Cabin’s strength and breadth of work.”
Cabin will continue to be repped by Hunky Dory on the East Coast, Red Rep on the West Coast, and Baer Brown in the Midwest.
Google is blasted by UK watchdog for what it calls anti-competitive behavior through digital ads
Google was slammed Friday by U.K. regulators who say it's taking advantage of its dominance in digital advertising to thwart competition in Britain, ratcheting up pressure that the tech giant is facing on both sides of the Atlantic over its "ad tech" business practices.
Britain's Competition and Markets Authority said that the U.S. company gives preference to its own services to the detriment of online publishers and advertisers in Britain's 1.8 billion pound ($2.4 billion) digital ad market. The watchdog leveled its accusations after an investigation, and the findings could potentially lead to a fine worth billions of dollars or an order to change its behavior.
Google is a major player throughout the digital ad ecosystem, providing servers for publishers to manage ad space on their websites and apps, tools for advertisers and media agencies to buy display ads, and an exchange where both sides come together to buy and sell ads in real time at auctions.
"We've provisionally found that Google is using its market power to hinder competition when it comes to the ads people see on websites," the watchdog's interim executive director of enforcement, Juliette Enser, said in a press release.
The watchdog's charges, known as a statement of objections, arrive two years after it opened its investigation. Google's digital ad business is also the focus of a European Union antitrust investigation and a U.S. Justice Department lawsuit that's set to go to trial this month.
The CMA said that Google's "anti-competitive" conduct is ongoing, but the company disputed the allegations Friday.
"Google remains committed to creating value for our publisher and advertiser partners in this highly competitive sector," the company said in a prepared... Read More