Google is locking up the online advertising market by owning ad servers and tying them to their ad exchanges, creating exclusive deals, and manipulating auction prices.
This has created a tax on consumers, as everyone is forced to use Google's advertising technologies.
The Fed eases up on the brakes, Elon Musk looks for new ways to monetize Twitter, and Snap has another rough quarter. Also: Meta may have prevailed in a fight with the FTC. Today’s Friend of Pivot is Jonathan Kanter, Assistant Attorney General for the Antitrust Division at the DOJ. He stops by to discuss Google, antitrust, and his agency's fight against monopolies.
Send us your questions! Call 855-51-PIVOT or go to nymag.com/pivot.