Endless Antitrust; Third-Party Sellers Lose Their Party Invites
The FTC probes Google and Amazon over transparency in their search businesses; Walmart will only allow authorized sellers; and Perplexity’s ad business garners criticism.
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Data Privacy
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The Reasoning Behind The Remedies; The Demise Of De Minimis
Judge Mehta defends his light touch in addressing Google’s search monopoly; the de minimis exemption for imports is over, and it could ding Q4 ad spend; and a whistleblower says Meta ignored WhatsApp’s privacy lapses.
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PubMatic Is Suing Google For Monopolistic Behavior, The Second Such SSP Case
On Monday, PubMatic became the second sell-side platform to file a follow-on antitrust lawsuit against Google.
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Google’s Proposed Fix To Its Ad Tech Monopoly Is At Odds With The DOJ’s Remedies
Late Friday evening, Google filed its proposed remedies to its ad tech monopoly to District Court Judge Leonie Brinkema, and unsurprisingly, they’re rather mild – and very different from what the Department of Justice is looking for.
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How A Couples Therapy Startup Grew Into A CDP For Health Care Marketers
When Ours, a telehealth service for couples counseling, launched in 2020, it wasn’t planning to eventually pivot to a health care-focused customer data and privacy compliance platform.
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PODCAST: The Big StoryThe Remedies Edition
Google is running a search monopoly, but the remedies are light. How will this decision affect advertisers and competitors? Plus, Google Ad Manager is acting like a standalone SSP, a move that appears connected to the looming remedies phase of Google’s second antitrust case.
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Judge Mehta’s Remedies For Google’s Search Monopoly Won’t Cure What Ails Publishers
Remedies in the federal search antitrust case against Google landed with a thud earlier this week. Most publishers and ad industry pundits were sorely disappointed.
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Comscore Debuts A Way To Turn Consumer Profile Data Into ID-Free Audiences
Comscore’s new AI-based initiative allows data providers to convert ID-based datasets into ID-free audience segments, helping advertisers target audiences with improved accuracy and privacy.
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OPINION: Data-Driven ThinkingThe 7 Traits Every Ad Tech Leader Needs To Thrive In The Age Of AI
We spoke to a score of ad tech leaders to uncover seven competencies essential for the success of the next generation of ad tech leadership.
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Meet The Crypto-Powered Search Engine That Doesn’t Care Who You Are
Presearch is a decentralized, privacy‑first search engine that pays users in its own crypto – but also runs an ads business.
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For Publishers, AI Gives Monetizable Data Insight But Takes Away Traffic
Traffic-starved publishers are hopeful that their long-undervalued audience data will fuel advertising’s automated future – if only they can finally wrest control of the industry narrative away from ad tech middlemen.
Q3: The Trade Desk Delivers On Financials, But Is Its Vision Fact Or Fantasy?
The Trade Desk posted solid Q3 results on Thursday, with $739 million in revenue, up 18% year over year. But the main narrative for TTD this year is less about the numbers and more about optics and competitive dynamics.
IP Address Match Rates Are a Joke – And It’s No Laughing Matter
According to a new report, IP-to-email matches are accurate just 16% of the time on average, while IP-to-postal matches are accurate only 13% of the time. (Oof.)
The DOJ And Google Sharpen Their Remedy Proposals As The Two Sides Prepare For Closing Arguments
The phrase “caution is key” has become a totem of the new age in US antitrust regulation. It was cited this week by both the DOJ and Google in support of opposing views on a possible divestiture of Google’s sell-side ad exchange.
Alt Identity Provider ID5 Buys TrueData, Marking Its First-Ever Acquisition
ID5 bought TrueData mainly to tackle what ID5 CEO Mathieu Roche calls the “massive fragmentation” of digital identity, which is a problem on the user side and the provider side.
CTV Manufacturers Have A New Tool For Catching Spoofed Devices
The IAB Tech Lab’s new device attestation feature for its Open Measurement SDK provides a scaled way for original device manufacturers to confirm that ad impressions are associated with real devices.