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Ad Tech’s Online Watering Hole Reacts to Antitrust Ruling That Google Is A Monopoly

The Google antitrust ruling will have wide-reaching implications for the tech industry at large, not just the ad businesses therein. But in the meantime, it’s only natural to see programmatic veterans letting off a bit of steam. The post Ad Tech’s Online Watering Hole Reacts to Antitrust Ruling That Google Is A Monopoly appeared first

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How Google took control over online advertising, according to those who watched it happen

U.S. Judge Leonie Brinkema just called it: Google broke the law to cement its monopoly over online advertising. Four weeks in September laid bare exactly how it did it. But if you missed the courtroom drama or need a refresher, here’s the unfiltered story of how Google boxed out rivals and took over online advertising

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When it comes to ads, Apple isn’t playing coy anymore

For years, Apple has played the role of the bystander in advertising — wealthy, capable and largely disinterested. It had the reach, the hardware, the data, the closed loop ecosystem, it had everything but the need. Now, that’s starting to change.  Apple’s quiet rebrand of its search ads business to the more assertive “Apple Ads” may

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Ad Tech Briefing: Google is ruled as a monopolist for the second time in a year, but what now?

Google has been ruled a monopolist for the second time within a year, but now the industry is asking how long will it have to wait for an actual outcome, and what measures are necessary to make any real difference? In a landmark ruling, Judge Leonie Brinkema has found Google guilty of antitrust violations in

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How kid-rearing tips are helping Willa Bennett reignite legacy media brands

This story was first published by Digiday sibling WorkLife After scooping up a shelfful of journalistic honors at Zalando’s online fashion and lifestyle publication Highsnobiety (four National Magazine Awards, anyone?), Willa Bennett is rewriting the rulebook of print and digital magazine brands as the editor in chief of Hearst’s Cosmopolitan and Seventeen. Since taking charge

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How Hyundai’s CMO is navigating upfront marketplace uncertainty and rapid-response tariff ads

Tasked with steering their brands down a winding and slippery road, automotive marketers are prioritizing flexibility and speed. To capture consumers buying cars ahead of an anticipated price hit from tariffs, Hyundai has launched a campaign pledging to hold sticker prices steady until June. The campaign was assembled just a week before its April 11

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Tariff saga creates a meme war on social media, making it difficult for brands to ‘control the message’

As the trade war escalates, narratives about how brands’ goods are made, the factories that produce them and whether they’re worth the price are unfolding across social media. Call it the trade war’s meme war. Narrated videos and AI-generated memes are flooding consumers‘ feeds across TikTok, X and YouTube as the U.S. and China battle

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