@monopolyreport
Marketecture's in-depth coverage of Google and big tech's antitrust and regulatory woes and how that impacts the ads space. Newsletter at: https://monopoly.marketecture.tv/ Pod at: https://www.monopolyreportpod.com/
If you want to better understand WHY digital media is in this state, take a look at the period from 2004 to 2013 --- from Google's IPO to its acquisitions of DLCK, Admeld & Invite to the intitial antitrust investigation by the FTC that didn't bear fruit.
www.monopolyreportpod.com/episode-49-p...
One of my favorite guests, @megangray.bsky.social shares her take on the DOJ v Google remedies trial on this week's @monopolyreport.bsky.social podcast. This is an entertaining primer if you're looking to get up to speed before Judge Mehta's decision in the next few weeks. tinyurl.com/9p7xmebx
ad tech has moved through several audience creation eras: (1) behavioral targeting, (2) onboarding / DMP, (3) data science.
As of today, MOST of the talk about the next era - AI audience creation - is just that.... talk.
I'd love it if someone could change my mind.
tinyurl.com/63xckv88
This week's @monopolyreport.bsky.social podcast is a must-listen if you're trying to understand the ads regulatory space. Sam Levine and I go deep into the history of the FTC - and we make some predictions on how things will shake out.
www.monopolyreportpod.com/episode-37-r...
Here are my favorite "under-covered" regulatory stories / trends as they apply to the ad space. What did I miss? Check out this week's @monopolyreport.bsky.social at monopoly-report.com/p/2025-mid-y...
Google had a run-in with the Texas AG's office. It didn't end well. I share my take on the back story as I look for clues to how this might impact the separate state antitrust trial (led by Texas) later this summer.
monopoly-report.com/p/google-s-b...
Did @perplexityai.bsky.social CEO Aravind Srinivas misspeak when he talked about his plans to monetize the COMET browser by vacuuming up browsing data? Or is Mr. Srinivas simply preaching the new normal in tech - privacy and IP be damned. monopoly-report.com/p/perplexity...
Google's Cookie announcement, implications for the remedies phase of G's adtech antitrust trial, and a Lance Armstrong metaphor. This week's @monopolyreport.bsky.social newsletter. monopoly-report.com/p/remedies-t...
Claiming that a building is now uninhabitable when youβre the one who set fire to it is certainly a choice. Google to publishers: Drop Dead. This week on the
@monopolyreport.bsky.social
monopoly-report.com/p/google-to-...
On this week's @monopolyreport.bsky.social newsletter, I use a cartoon that nobody under 40 has heard of to draw an analogy about GDPR reform... and suggest a few reforms of my own. monopoly-report.com/p/so-they-wa...
WTF happened to measurement?
"If youβre creating some new platform chock full of privacy enhancing tech that fixes all privacy or other societal ills...
In my view: if I canβt measure it - and canβt audit it so that I know whatβs going on beneath the hood, it shouldnβt exist.
The Internet don't take kindly to broken promises. Itβs not so much that @mozilla.org has broken a privacy promise. Rather, this change is a direct function of a drastic shift in both the regulatory and business environment. Check out this week's @monopolyreport.bsky.social at tinyurl.com/24e7z8y4
This week on @monopolyreport.bsky.social , I write about Europe's attempt to address the anti-competitive impact of Apple's App Tracking Transparency using the TV show "Horace and Pete" as a metaphor for any number of shady things taking place in the ads space. monopoly-report.com/p/apple-s-ho...
On this week's @monopoly_report, I explain that the digital ads space could use a shift in our collective mindset if we want to reach the next level of maturity. We need to move away from "people in glass houses shouldn't throw stones" to "if you see something, say something".
Lot's of debate about the def of personal data around the world. This @monopolyreport.bsky.social article analyzes the impact of expanding that definition on data driven advertising. monopoly.marketecture.tv/p/personal-d...
Google Chrome choice prompts are merely a distraction and why the Competition and Markets Authority still needs to require that Google address the underlying competition concerns around TPC deprecation (albeit deprecation via choice prompt)
monopoly.marketecture.tv/p/google-s-c...
If the ICO had its way,
this practice called Consent or Pay,
Ethical: yay or nayβ¦
Ask again another day.
@monopolyreport.bsky.social
monopoly.marketecture.tv/p/uk-ico-and...
@monopolyreport.bsky.social NL: (1) TikTok is James Bond (2) Oracle is either being really foolish or has received assurances that this will pay off bigly (Stargate?), (3) The "National Security Card" might be the big loser in all this (followed by EU to U.S. data transfers) tinyurl.com/52bzdc4a
I interrupt today's TikTok coverage with some music. Sometimes people get married very young - and to the wrong person. It kind of spoils them to the institution of marriage going forward. This is a song about someone who fell in love again after leaving a loveless marriage.... 1/3
My thoughts on Net Neutrality in the ads space: "If weβre going to have a debate about gatekeepers imposing theoretical tolls on the highway, it seems reasonable for the debate to include a discussion of the actual tolls we currently have to navigate."
monopoly.marketecture.tv/p/net-neutra...
"Announcing a policy that nobody else is allowed to do the very thing that you just got caught doing is peak Google." Here's @marketecture.tv's take on Google's recent change to its fingerprinting policy.
monopoly.marketecture.tv/p/google-s-q...
Also, check out this week's TMR podcast where Alysa Hutnik and I do a deep dive on the CIPA and other wiretap laws are impacting the ads space. www.monopolyreportpod.com
What does the data driven ads space have in common with J Edgar Hoover? Read this week's TMR newsletter to find out. tinyurl.com/227wd24r
This week's Monopoly Report analyzes the potential homes for Chrome browser in the event that the DOJ is able to force a sale. You should read to the bottom to see what the FTC is saying about data collected via RTB auctions. Lina Kahn has left a time bomb. monopoly.marketecture.tv/p/the-parado...
Genuinely one of the most thought provoking podcasts and a #MustListen as you look ahead for planning in 2025... Keep killin' it @achapell.bsky.social (cc @marketecture.tv ). π₯
open.spotify.com/episode/0dy1...
What will happen to the Lumascape if/when third-party cookies go away? This week on @marketecture.tv's Monopoly Report, I share thoughts on key targeting and addressability solutions in an attempt to capture the current state of play for a post TPC world. tinyurl.com/bdcp9dhz
Who could actually afford Chrome in a spin-out? And
@dmarti.bsky.social gives perspective from his time at Mozilla on our latest podcast.
monopoly.marketecture.tv/p/the-parado...
Pay less attention to what people SAY and more attention to what they DO. What people do is often a much more reliable indicator.
My latest for @marketecture.bsky.social
monopoly.marketecture.tv/p/the-google...
