The Monopoly Report

Journalist Marty Swant (Digiday, Forbes, NY Times) joins Alan Chapell to talk about the ways an ad industry trade journalist combats spin in their search for truth. Marty also drops some thoughts on key trends in the ads space that are not getting nearly enough attention. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In part two of this two part interview, host Alan Chapell and Jonathan Kanter go deep on the Google ad tech antitrust trial remedies phase.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jonathan Kanter joins host Alan Chapell to discuss the changes to antitrust enforcement over the past five years and how those changes were reflected in the DOJ's enforcement against Google in the search antitrust trial. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode, Alan Chapell chats with Gary Kibel of the law firm Davis & Gilbert about children's privacy in the ads space. We start back in 1998 with the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) and share how the FTC has revamped COPPA via rulemaking over the years. We also discuss state level privacy laws' approach to children's advertising, KOSA and the likelihood of the U.S. Congres...

Alan Chapell and Dennis Buchheim talk about the future of addressability and how to create ad standards which are both principled and fair. We also question the value of legacy tech in the ads space.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Alan Chapell and Dennis Buchheim go deep on some of the historical challenges faced by IAB TechLab as it created Project Re arc and started moving towards a post-cookie ad space starting in 2019. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Privacy technologist Brian May joins Alan Chapell to discuss the pro's and con's of Privacy Enhancing Technologies (PETs) within the ads space - and how sometimes we need to collectively take difficult steps in order for the industry to prosper. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode, Alan Chapell chats with GW law school professor Daniel Solove about his latest book "On Privacy and Technology" as they try to find common ground between under and over regulation of the ads space. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Alan Chapell speaks with Richard Kramer from Arete Research about the pro's and con's of various remedies being discussed in connection with Google's search, ad tech and Privacy Sandbox cases. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Alan Chapell is joined by media futurist and former Googler Erez Levin - who makes the case for improved metrics and incentives in digital media. Erez suggests that third-party cookie deprecation and potential antitrust break up of big tech could serve as a means to reboot the ads space towards better outcomes. Alan mixes his Dylan metaphors to make a point that forced blindness carries its own ri...

Rob Leathern joins host Alan Chapell to discuss and debate Rob's 10 step plan for fixing the ads space - and why those things probably won't happen. Rob's Notes 19: Why We Haven't Fixed Online Advertising Yet Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Rich Caccappolo of DMG joins Alan Chapell to discuss news publishers' approach to content monetization and AI amidst all the regulatory noise.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Research and measurement guru Rick Bruner joins Alan to discuss how measurement fits into the ads space - and stirs the pot a bit re: the need for identity in measurement. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Alan Chapell speaks with Jessica Lee from Loeb & Loeb on the challenges of navigating the health targeting space in the U.S. and Europe. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Omer Tene joins host Alan Chapell to discuss generative AI and how to approach an AI impact assessment. Alan also recalls some uncomfortable discussions with tech founders.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode, host Alan Chapell chats with Professor Eric Goldman from Santa Clara University Law School. They talk about Section 230 of the Communication Decency Act: how it came about, why it was critical to the growth of the consumer Internet economy and how it remains an essential (but under-discussed) part of the digital ads space to this day. They also talk about how Section 230 is coming...

Peter Craddock joins Alan to talk about the history of consent and personal data under EU data protection law - and the evolution of cookie walls, paywalls, and "Pay or Consent" as used by large platforms.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Eric Seufert of Mobile Dev Memo joins Alan to talk about Apple ATT and the latest decision coming from Germany's Federal Cartel Office (the Bundeskartellamt). Eric shares helpful background on ATT and why competition regulators are taking issue with Apple on competition and privacy.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On this episode, host Alan Chapell has a candid discussion with Ana Milicevic about how content monetization lost its way, the risks of over simplification of privacy and the end of an Internet without borders. There's also a lesson to be learned about why Ana doesn't like the DMV. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this Episode, host Alan Chapell talks about the historical and existential challenges being faced by the news publishing industry with journalist and tech entrepreneur Ricky Sutton of the Future Media newsletter and podcast. They discuss what publishers need to be thinking about as they combat big tech. Tl:dr - robust antitrust enforcement is only step one.  Learn more about your ad choices. Vi...

Host Alan Chapell talks about the proposed Omnicom IPG merger and the future of agency holding companies with Arielle Garcia of Check My Ads.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On this episode of the Monopoly Report, host Alan Chapell discusses Google's December 2024 policy shift on device fingerprinting with adtech privacy and legal thought leader Julia Shullman. They attempt to place historical context on the definition of device fingerprinting and speculate on Google's rationale - both for Google's recent about face and for instituting the anti-fingerprinting policy i...

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

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