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. Congress enacting COPPA 2.0. We end with a discussion of Congress potentially preempting State AI laws. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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 risk. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices