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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The Media And Retail Deals Behind The Peppa Pig Franchise Expansion
Peppa Pig is everywhere. Whether or not you have children, you likely know the little girl pig from the kid’s cartoon show. But the Peppa media franchise is just getting started.
How A For-Profit College Is Using CTV Ads To Win Over New Students
The American College of Education partnered with performance TV company MNTN to better reach its audience of adults seeking higher education.
Critics Say The Trade Desk Is Forcing Kokai Adoption, But Apparently It’s Up To Agencies
Is TTD forcing agencies to adopt the new Kokai interface despite claims they can still use the interface of their choice? Here’s what we were able to find out.
Why Big Brand Price Increases Will Flatten Ad Budgets
Product prices and marketing budgets are flip sides of the same coin. But the phase-in effects of tariffs, combined with vicissitudes of global weather and commodity production, challenge that truism.
The IAB Tech Lab Isn’t Pulling Any Punches In The Fight Against AI Scraping
IAB Tech Lab CEO Anthony Katsur didn’t mince his words when declaring unauthorized generative AI scraping of publisher content “theft, full stop.”
Here’s Who’s Testifying During The Remedy Phase Of Google’s Ad Tech Antitrust Trial
Last week, the DOJ and Google filed their respective witness lists and the exhibit lists for the remedy phase of the ad tech antitrust trial. Lots of familiar faces!
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Addressing Addressability, With ID5 CEO Mathieu Roche
When Google reversed its decision to deprecate third-party cookies, the first word in ID5 CEO Mathieu Roche’s mind was an expletive. But it doesn’t really matter what happens with cookies on Chrome anymore. “Most of the industry has moved past the notion that cookies were good enough to target and measure advertising on the web,” Roche says.
The Big Story
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.