The Monopoly Report – Details, episodes & analysis

Omar Tawakol was the founder of BlueKai, a seminal company in the third-party data and DMP spaces. He talks to Alan about privacy, identity, and his new start-up Rembrandt that just raised $23 million for AI product placement. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jules Polonetsky and Doug Miller of the Future of Privacy Forum join Alan Chapell to talk clean rooms. Are standards needed for data clean rooms? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Terry Kawaja of Luma Partners comes on to discuss a wide range of tropics including Lina Kahn's effect on the M&A market and the potential for a Google spin-out. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Tim Cowen, the Chair of the Antitrust Practice at Preiskel & Co LLP comes on the show to talk with Alan and Ari about the DOJ's remedies framework and how it might play out. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This is our inaugural episode of the latest podcast from Marketecture, The Monopoly Report. Hosts Ari Paparo and Alan Chapell will be interviewing legal, policy, and business experts about the ongoing antitrust cases against the advertising giants. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Alysa Hutnik is a privacy law expert at Kelley Drye & Warren and she and Alan talk about the strange phenomenon of CPIA lawsuits using wiretapping statutes. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The NAI is a trade association that was formed 25 years ago to create privacy standards for digital advertising. David has been with the NAI for six and a half years and has previously worked on public policy and legislative issues in the software industry. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Don is the VP of Ecosystem Innovation at Raptive, and spent over four years at Mozilla. We have a wide-ranging conversation about the browsers, do not track, and how they may innovate in a post-antritrust world. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The latest episode of the Monopoly Report dives deep into the complexities surrounding Google's Privacy Sandbox and the implications of the deprecation of third-party cookies. Host Alan Chappelle welcomes Garrett McGrath, SVP of product at Magnite and board chair for Prebid, to discuss the challenges and nuances of the evolving ad tech landscape. They explore the UK Competition and Markets Authority's investigation into Google's plans and the potential impact on competition within the advertising ecosystem. Garrett sheds light on the technical intricacies of the new APIs, emphasizing concerns about latency and the inherent advantages they may provide Google over competitors. As the conversation unfolds, they also reflect on the broader ramifications for publishers and the open internet, questioning whether the industry's focus on the Privacy Sandbox has diverted critical resources and attention from more pressing issues. Takeaways: The UK Competition and Markets Authority is investigating Google's deprecation of third-party cookies and its competitive impact. Garrett McGrath emphasizes the challenging nature of the W3C working group's process and alignment issues. Google's decision to offer a choice prompt regarding third-party cookies raises questions about user privacy and competition. The recent CMA reports suggest a governance framework that might allow Google to self-regulate its practices. Garrett expresses concerns about the potential negative effects of the Privacy Sandbox on the open internet. The effectiveness of on-device auctions in browsers remains untested at scale, raising practical concerns. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The latest episode of the Monopoly Report brings guests Bill Wise from MediaOcean to discuss the ongoing cases brought by the DOJ and the UK Competition and Markets Authority, emphasizing the potential for structural remedies that could reshape the advertising landscape. Bill shares his insights on how Google's competitive strategies have positioned them at the forefront of the industry and whether their practices could be seen as monopolistic. The conversation also touches on the challenges of the Privacy Sandbox initiative and the complexities surrounding data access and consumer privacy in digital advertising. tMbIR9G5VUTluDETcNKx Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices