The Monopoly Report

Newsletter and podcast from @Marketecturetv covering antitrust problems for the global advertising giants. Features @aripap and @chapell68.

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OpenAI shifts ad strategy: massive revenue targets, new agent-driven surfaces, and mounting pressure on privacy commitments. What gets compromised first?

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After 30 years fighting surveillance, internet privacy advocate Cindy Cohn reflects on encryption, Snowden, behavioral advertising, surveillance pricing, and why privacy remains one of the defining challenges of the digital age.

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Mandatory age verification risks building surveillance infrastructure and undermining privacy and free expression—while failing to truly protect kids. Read more in this week's Monopoly Report by @chapell68.

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@TomKemp00 and Tony Ficarrotta break down California’s Delete Act, the DROP platform, and what new privacy rules mean for data brokers and brands.

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Infrastructure defines power in ad tech. In this week's Monopoly Report newsletter, Alan Chapell breaks down how today’s protocols and standards shape who wins—and who gets shut out.

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What happens when users control their own data? Alan Chapell and John Battelle dig into AI, data portability, and the economics shaping digital advertising.

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New peer-reviewed research shows Google’s Privacy Sandbox would have barely recovered lost ad revenue while increasing latency. The lesson: Privacy solutions need clearly defined, auditable goals. Vague promises of a “better web” won’t cut it.

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@chapell68 and JP Schmetz of Brave browser debate privacy, ad tech, AI search, browser economics, and whether Google’s real monopoly is distribution, not search itself.

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New privacy laws like CCPA are making it harder for independent adtech to compete, pushing more power to Big Tech. Alan Chapell @chapell68 breaks down why and talks to @dmarti about the future of attribution.

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Don Marti joins Alan Chapell to break down why “privacy-safe” attribution often isn’t what it promises and how it may benefit big tech over users.

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Andrew Woods of @PubMatic breaks down agentic AI, privacy, and who is actually responsible when automation goes wrong in ad tech. A clear look at how compliance is evolving at machine speed.

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Mark Meador, @FTC Commissioner, breaks down the real tension between privacy and competition and why “free” platforms aren’t actually free. A sharp look at where regulation and innovation collide.

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OpenAI projects a jump from $2.5B ad revenue in 2026 to $100B by 2030. Not impossible, but the path is brutal.

This is about trajectory, not share. It demands near-perfect execution, scaling, regulatory luck, and balance.

Big ambition. Bigger risk

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@ajitvarma and Kush Amlani from @mozilla break down the future of browsers, AI, and privacy, and why user choice and competition matter more than ever

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GPC signals are both a threat and an inevitability in advertising. They give users real opt out power, but could also be used by browsers to tilt the market in their favor. Either way, the industry needs to pay attention now before 2027 forces the shift

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