California Assembly member, Buffy Hicks, is proposing a state-level version of the journalism usage fee bill. The proposed law will allow local news outlets to work together to bargain with tech giants, such as Facebook and Google, to collect a fee for using their content and selling advertising alongside it.
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It’s not that anyone questions the need to verify placements or for third-party verification vendors to do so on behalf of clients, especially in the open programmatic markets. We all understand that advertisers don’t want to purchase inventory blindly and risk placing ads in horrific environments. Nor do they want…
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In an interview with MarketingBrew, Dan Taylor, Google’s VP of Global Ads claimed that the DOJ’s antitrust lawsuit is “kind of out of touch” and that the market felt “more competitive than ever.” Part of the DOJ’s complaint is that Google pockets $.30 out of every ad dollar that flows…
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The White House and the European Commission started their first official meeting to discuss the development of AI technology. It is the start of a partnership and research initiative to speed up AI tech's evolution and establish regulations.
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A recent Association of National Advertisers survey revealed that marketers aren’t as enamored of retail media as everyone thinks. In fact, 88% of brands say they feel pressured by retailers to spend in their channel, with some 42% feeling it’s just a cost of doing business. Some marketers hint that…
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A major federal privacy law is underway in Australia, following in the footsteps of the E.U.'s comprehensive data privacy law — GDPR.
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The federal privacy battle came to a standoff after President Biden's State of the Union address. Don't hold your breath if you're hoping the two sides are coming to common ground. President Biden reiterated his proposed restrictions for federal ad targeting regulations at the State of the Union. In response,…
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GoodRx, was fined $1.5 million for allegedly sharing users' health data for ad purposes. The FTC filed a complaint in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California. It alleges that the drug company frequently violated consumers' privacy by sharing personal health information with advertisers or third parties.
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The lawsuit essentially asks Google to pick a side ( buy or sell, but not both). Its request for relief asks that at a minimum, Google should divest itself of the “Google Ad Manager suite, including both Google’s publisher ad server, DFP, and Google’s ad exchange, AdX, along with any…
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“Now the Supreme Court is poised to reconsider those rules, potentially leading to the most significant reset of the doctrines governing online speech since U.S. officials and courts decided to apply few regulations to the web in the 1990s,” The New York Times reports.
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