Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Reg-U-Later Apple has a history of not quite breaching antitrust rulings, but blithely flaunting orders. In 2022, for example, a Dutch court ruled Apple must allow payment alternatives. Apple paid 5 million euros per week in noncompliance fines over months. It eventually acquiesced […]
Crunchtime The EU’s Digital Markets Act has teeth – and now it’s biting, TechCrunch reports. The DMA regulates anti-competitive practices within “gatekeeper platforms” that have an annual turnover of at least 7.5 billion euros. Meta, Apple, Alphabet, Amazon, Microsoft and ByteDance all tick that box. Gatekeepers have until March to ensure their operations in the EU […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. In Services To Who? Apple’s Services revenue – made up of its subscription businesses and the triple-tithe fee on iOS developer earnings – is at risk in 2024, writes the Financial Times. Apple’s Services biz kept overall growth pumping despite a slowdown in […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Pulling The Strings Disney-owned TV channels went dark on Charter Spectrum last week when the two companies failed to reach an agreement on a new carriage pact, Variety reports. The blackout affected over 25 networks, including ESPN. It was particularly bad timing, too: […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. The Point Of No Return Amazon set the bar with its liberal refund policy – it’s quick to credit consumers for missing or unsatisfactory items – and one- or two-day shipping. Matching Amazon’s standards is a brutally expensive challenge for retailers, who must […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Say “Nein” To Sharing The German Cartel Office, Germany’s antitrust regulator, says Google’s data processing policies violate the country’s digital competition law. Germany’s antitrust regulations go further than the EU’s Digital Markets Act to prohibit data from being shared internally by large companies […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. A New Day, A New Apple Apple engineers are preparing to support third-party app stores on iPhones and iPads, Bloomberg reports. But this is not a change of heart on Apple’s part. Apple is simply following the law. A new rule in the […]
Google Topics is Google’s proposed replacement, which takes us back in time to broad, interest-based segmented targeting. This means brands are about to return to the “bad old days” of marketing, when many audiences all saw the same message. And this one-message-fits-most approach doesn’t fix what’s fundamentally broken in MADTech: the consumer experience, writes Tara DeZao, director of product marketing, MarTech and AdTech, at Pega.
The European Parliament adopted the Digital Services Act (DSA) and the Digital Markets Act (DMA) in July. Although they were passed as one legislative package, they function as two distinct laws. But there is one common thread: Holding Big Tech providers more accountable for what happens on their platforms.
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Ripe For Change Earlier this year, as part of a concession to antitrust regulators, Apple started allowing certain developers to avoid paying its 30% App Store fee by redirecting users to external sites in order to subscribe – and now Netflix is taking advantage. Previously, […]
