The Taylor Swift saga was a black mark for Ticketmaster’s parent company, Live Nation Entertainment (LYV). A report from The New York Times last week said the Justice Department has opened an antitrust investigation into the entertainment giant. Senators Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) and Edward Markey (D-MA) called for congressional hearings into the company. “If the investigation reveals that Live Nation has continued to abuse its dominant market position notwithstanding two… Source link
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This article first appeared in the Morning Brief. Get the Morning Brief sent directly to your inbox every Monday to Friday by 6:30 a.m. ET. Subscribe Monday, January 31, 2022 Remember your first bad breakup? I bet it was painfully brutal. The weeks full of tears. The instant anger at the sight of life itself. The endless worrying if your ex was already seeing someone else. The parking outside of their house from 9 p.m. to 4 a.m. with the lights off to watch if they went anywhere (or was that… Source link
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Publishers and ad tech companies have lately been treated to some interesting new information about how Google has managed its programmatic advertising business through the years. Specifically, they have learned about Project Bernanke, a secretive program in which Google cut previously undisclosed deals with big partners like Facebook to assure preferential pricing and winning bids. It also adjusted revenue share to guarantee that bids clear price floors for those big partners and… Source link
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The Telegraph Royal family release unseen pictures of Duke of Edinburgh surrounded by great-grandchildren Until now it had remained a cherished family photograph, unseen by the rest of the world. Showing the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh surrounded by seven of their great-grandchildren at Balmoral Castle, the precious image had been kept under wraps. But Prince Philip’s death at the age of 99 on Friday has prompted the 94-year-old monarch to open the treasured royal family album in memory of… Source link
Read More »The Privacy Sandbox And A Pre-emptive Breakup Of Google?
“Data-Driven Thinking” is written by members of the media community and contains fresh ideas on the digital revolution in media. Today’s column is written by Alan Chapell, president at Chapell & Associates. Like most of you, I’ve been following Google’s announcement of the Privacy Sandbox, the eventual depreciation of third-parties cookies in Chrome and the regulatory activity taking place against Google and other platforms. And I’m starting to think they may be… Source link
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