We interrupt today's (great) coverage of the Google trial with some developments in Europe - as the EU Commission looks to revisit certain consent requirements for digital media. We need to go further & re-think other vestiges of last era (e.g., icons on ads). chapell.substack.com/p/is-the-eu-...

More thoughts on Google's recent proposed court settlement that brings the RTB Control.... all in the name of privacy. Why deceptively simple privacy tools are in fact, well... deceptive. chapell.substack.com/p/rtb-contro...

How do we fix digital media in the EU? In my view, the answer to that question should include experimentation. I was honored to have a thoughtful discussion with @tobiasjudin.bsky.social of Norway's data protection regulator (the Datatilsynet). Norway is considering a ban on behavioral ads.

Whether my phone is actually listening to me is kind of besides the point. Check out my latest Substack. substack.com/home/post/p-...

I wrote some stuff about Judge Mehta's decision re: Google for @monopolyreport.bsky.social . Time to admit that any post Kahn/Kanter momentum re: antitrust has dissipated. Lot's more - also, I'll be talking about the decision w/Ari Paparo on the @marketecture.tv pod this week. tinyurl.com/37xek9hs

Justin Evans is a data optimist. His new book - The Little Book of Data - offers countless examples of how data solves problems & makes the world a better place. Naturally, I wanted to have him on TMR pod to see if I could pour a bit of cold water. (: tinyurl.com/yd8a6tkc

Why I'm predicting that the U.S. Congress will pass a privacy law this September. (building off a great NY Times piece that - all due respect - buries the lede). chapell.substack.com/p/why-congre...

The Fatal Flaw in the IAB TCF open.substack.com/pub/chapell/...

Here's a clip from my interview with @swodinsky.bsky.social - talking about the role of the technology team w/in the FTC. Check out the whole @monopolyreport.bsky.social pod interview if you haven't yet. www.monopolyreportpod.com

Some in the ads space are viewing AI as the next version of adtech three-card monte. I wanted to throw a bit of cold water on that concept. newsletter focuses on the health targeting space [email protected] monopoly-report.com/p/fun-with-a...

"Populists were told the reason Obama-era enforcers wouldn’t bring cases is that judges would never accept wild theories of antitrust, even though those theories were binding precedent of older cases. It turns out that wasn’t true" www.thebignewsletter.com/p/monopoly-r...

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

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

If future competition enforcers take away 1 thing from the CMA Sandbox initiative, I hope they recognize that you’re never going to get to the bottom of any competition challenge if the monopolist maintains near total control over the dialog and framing of issues monopoly-report.com/p/google-the...

After nearly a generation of pushing for them, the EU should pivot away from requiring consent banners. The entire discussion around consent in the EU is the embodiment of multiple sides intentionally talking past each other. Pls - make it stop. @monopolyreport.bsky.social tinyurl.com/mr3bzjke

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...

"Google is the house - and the house always wins." Unpacking the proposed remedies in Google's DOJ ad tech trial. I was honestly hoping for more rules impacting the buy side, but what DOJ proposed is fairly meaty. This week's @monopolyreport.bsky.social monopoly-report.com/p/google-s-a...

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...

Some thoughts on WPP acq of Info and the implications on DCRs as a standalone and PETs as a general proposition in adtech in this week's @monopolyreport.bsky.social newsletter. Always pay attention to who's pulling the strings. monopoly-report.com/p/wpp-infosu...

Claiming that a building is now uninhabitable when you’re 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-...

Claiming that a building is now uninhabitable when you’re 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-...

EXCLUSIVE: Are you listening to the Future Media podcast yet? If not, you're missing out. Today, for the first time, the lawyers leading $20 billion in class actions for publishers against Google break their silence to explain their case, how to join, and how it will rewrite the digital economy...

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 you’re creating some new platform chock full of privacy enhancing tech that fixes all privacy or other societal ills... In my view: if I can’t measure it - and can’t audit it so that I know what’s going on beneath the hood, it shouldn’t exist.

The fact that it is so difficult to upload my music onto Spotify and so easy to upload a podcast onto Spotify tells me everything I need to know about how Spotify (and prob the world) views musicians.

Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory's front page showing recent podcasts including work from: @zerotackle.bsky.social @usstudiescentre.bsky.social @sydneyuni.bsky.social @rickysutton.bsky.social @achapell.bsky.social Sponsor Lenny.fm www.greataustralianpods.com #AusPods #Podcasts #Australia

The Internet don't take kindly to broken promises. It’s 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 nay… 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

Oracle: being a data broker is too risky Also Oracle: violating federal law based on assurances that the incoming President may or may not be able to legally provide is perfectly ok. Any guesses on quid pro quo here? What is SOL on TikTok ban?

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 we’re 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...

If there's one thing that the adtech business and privacy advocacy community are aligned on, its the idea that cookies are both (1) horrible in every way but also, (2) significantly better than just about any alternative.

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

PLEASE caption this picture as a parable for the the digital ads space...

Who remembers that fateful day when @adtechgod.com nearly cancelled Xmas. 😱 www.youtube.com/watch?v=V87f...

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...

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

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 ). 🔥 open.spotify.com/episode/0dy1...

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...

Caption this! Most creative answer gets you a super-quick guest slot on the @marketecture.tv Monopoly Report pod. Who's feeling creative?

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...

Check out the Nov 13 edition of Marketecture's Monopoly Report. And sign up if you haven't yet. monopoly.marketecture.tv/p/elections-...