Antitrust

Does Google have a monopoly on search? The trial to answer that question is underway, and we go through the juiciest highlights.

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Thanks For Not Sharing Non-advertising companies can end up with strange new incentive structures when they start collecting ad dollars. For instance, the more Netflix’s ad revenue grows, the greater the internal pressure to crack down on password sharing. Previously, Netflix could turn […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Search And Discovery The Department of Justice’s antitrust suit against Google began in earnest this week, with Google economist Hal Varian taking the stand and both sides presenting their opening arguments. The case could have major repercussions, just like the government’s 1990s antitrust […]

Something ostensibly “good” (consumer privacy protection) could also be an antitrust violation. Weird world. Which is why data protection authorities and their antitrust counterparts must collaborate and compare notes.

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Europe? More Like ‘You’re Out’ European data privacy laws mainly deal with privacy. Duh. But there is another motivating factor behind their enforcement: antitrust remedies.  Europeans have different privacy standards. What might be considered a consumer protection suit in America could be a human […]

In Q1 2024, Chrome will deprecate cookies for 1% of a randomly selected group of Chrome users and slowly expand deprecation to more users throughout the year.

The language of Wall Street has become the language of ad tech, an industry on the cusp of major change because of a new bill in Congress, the AMERICA Act.

Say hello to the US government’s latest attempt to force antitrust regulations on the digital advertising industry. It might sound familiar.

The big one is here, as The Big Story examines the DOJ’s suit against Google for anticompetitive practices. Also: The IAB pulls no punches in its criticisms of Apple.

2023 is only a week in and antitrust scrutiny is already roiling the American big tech cadre. Important antitrust actions are looming, the line between antitrust regulation and privacy protection continues to blur – and large platforms with their own ad businesses are starting to feel the heat as regulators dig in.