DOJ and Google Clash Over Ad Tech Antitrust Remedy Timeline and Oversight
· 8h ago · Originally reported by Law360
The U.S. Department of Justice and Google are at odds over the timeline and oversight structure for addressing Google's dominance in the ad tech stack, following the court's ruling that Google holds an illegal monopoly in the sector.
Why it matters
This case could reshape how online ads are bought and sold, potentially forcing Google to divest parts of its ad tech business and opening the market to more competition.
Explain it like I’m new here
It's like a referee and a player arguing over how long they have to fix the rules of the game after the player was caught cheating.
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Ad tech
Ad tech is the software and infrastructure that decides which ad appears where, buys and sells that ad space, delivers the ad, and measures what happened afterwards.
Creative
A creative is the actual ad content a person sees or hears, such as an image, video, audio spot, HTML5 animation or native text, delivered into an ad slot.
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