Advertising
The DOJ’s AdTech Suit Against Google Is Anything but Unconventional
The U.S. Department of Justice and eight states recently sued Google, claiming it runs its digital ad business to unfairly advantage its own business,...
How Big Media Handed Digital Advertising to Big Tech
The current structure of digital advertising markets makes the Google-Facebook duopoly an unavoidable trading partner for every party in the content consumption supply chain,...
Big Tech’s Fight Over Privacy: Could Facebook Win an Antitrust Lawsuit Against Apple?
Do the new iOS 14 privacy features violate antitrust laws? If Facebook brings an antitrust suit against Apple, as it is reportedly considering, there...
Should Facebook Pick a Side?
Boycott organizers want Facebook to “pick a side” and align its corporate operations with aggressive activism on issues such as racism and social justice....
Why Most Advertisers Can’t Afford to Boycott Facebook
While big brands can afford to pause their addiction to Facebook, most advertisers cannot participate, as they have become so dependent on Facebook’s ad-targeting...
Google’s and Facebook’s Grip on Digital Advertising Markets
Since July 2019, the UK's Competition and Markets Authority has been conducting an extensive investigation of the digital advertising market. In its preliminary report on...
Can Google Mobilize Its Users to Lobby Elected Officials?
Google has an 87 percent market share in the search business and the potential to mobilize more voters than the Democratic primaries, according to...
Twitter Refused to Promote the New Capitalisn’t Episode: This Is a Problem for Free Speech (and for American Health Care)
Twitter banned political ads from its platform but has full discretion in deciding what constitutes a "political ad." The Stigler Center tried to promote...
The Intersection of Privacy, Data, and Competition
The issues around technology, data, and privacy are complicated, but solving them is less tricky that many companies would have Congress believe.
Editor’s note: The...
How the Adtech Market Incentivizes Profit-Driven Disinformation
If we want to solve the disinformation crisis, we need to fix the perverse incentives created by the online advertising market through structural and...
