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Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Retail Wagging The Dog Retail media networks are advertising businesses. Usually. Sort of. For many retailers, the data-driven ad practice serves different purposes. Lowe’s announced new digital products for contractors and other professionals, reports Retail Dive.

Late last week, Google made its first legal move to try and get the Texas-led antitrust case into its ad tech business tossed before it hits a courtroom. In its motion to dismiss, Google makes numerous arguments as to why the court should reject the suit, and they can be summed up thusly: If you didn’t like it, you should have said something earlier, but we didn’t do anything wrong anyway.

Antitrust expert and legal scholar Lina Khan embodied the phrase “speak softly and carry a big stick” as she testified at her confirmation hearing on Wednesday for a spot on the Federal Trade Commission (FTC). Although some senators questioned her lack of experience, the 32-year-old Khan is a celebrity in legal circles. She rose to […]

Can companies use violations of the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) to nail a rival for noncompetitive behavior? We’re gonna find out. B2B intent data company Bombora said Wednesday it is suing its former partner ZoomInfo for gaining an unfair data advantage through, it claims, repeated abuses of the CCPA. Although CCPA enforcement doesn’t begin […]

Marketers are spending boatloads on YouTube – to the tune of $15 billion in 2019 ad revenue, which Google shared for the first time last week. But YouTube can be a black box for data, and buyers want more insights to optimize their spend on the platform. “The more [data] we can get upfront about the […]

Privacy regulations have the potential to consolidate market share among large technology platforms. Aka, when publishers reduce the number of ad tech, audience measurement and other web technology vendors they work with, Google and Facebook win, according to new academic research examining the unintended consequences of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). The skittishness with […]

Big tech can’t swing a cat these days without hitting an antitrust investigation. Google, Facebook, Amazon and Apple are all facing varying degrees of heat from the Department of Justice, the Federal Trade Commission, state attorneys general across the nation, the House Judiciary Committee and competition authorities around the world. It’s hard to keep track […]

“Break up Big Tech” is a good sound bite for presidential candidates on the stump. But antitrust regulators in the United States and around the world aren’t rushing to sharpen their scalpels just yet. While there’s no denying that companies like Google, Facebook, Amazon, Apple and even Netflix “are extremely strong,” their size in the […]

Competition is growing in the programmatic buying space globally, and with that, eCPMs for most channels are also on the rise, according to marketing software and analytics platform Turn. The company’s Advertising Intelligence Index, released today, looked at global trends in data-driven marketing from January 2013 to January 2014 and found that competition was increasing […]