Future Media w/ Ricky Sutton and Chapell

New York's Attorney General has alleged it lied and “engaged in repeated and persistent fraud” to build its $16 billion business in America, including lying to users about privacy, targeting kids, harming them, and hiding the damage it caused.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Respected attorney and regulatory analyst Megan Gray sat in the pews through Google’s recent search remedies trial. After terms at the Federal Trade Commission and DuckDuckGo she has unique insights into how Google and The White House view the break-up. Some are quite spicy.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

It’s hard to believe that Google's going to be broken. It feels safer to hide behind the sofa and pretend it isn’t happening.Only it is coming, and regulators have devised a complex plan, which includes selling Google's ad exchange AdX and its ad server DFP, as well as publishing the data of some of Google's most closely kept secrets.The actions will change the $1.2 trillion global ad market forever, so Alan, an ad tech aficionado, and I break it down, and explain step by step how it's intended to happen... See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Big Tech's momentum and power has enabled it to roll over rules and laws that have existed for centuries. Individually, this might make sense to spur progress, but collectively it's causing major damage. Laws like copyright are being crushed in the race to the future, and efforts to rein it in are leading to angst and firings. Not paying for content would look absurd in almost any other context, but with tech's power and money behind it, this needs to be taken seriously.This week, the former CEO of mag group Bauer and MD of The Times Chris Duncan joins Alan and I to explore the implications.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Ricky and Alan are joined by EU competition lawyer Damien Geradin of Geradin Partners. Damien has done great work helping to address the competition issues caused by big tech over the years - and share's his thoughts on the current state of competition law throughout Europe.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Antitrust lawyer Gene Burrus joins Ricky Sutton and Alan Chapell to discuss the implications of Apple's approach to complying with competition rulings around the globe - now that Apple was held to have violated an injunction in connection with it's competition suit with Epic Games.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Ricky Sutton and Alan Chapell walk through the implications of Google's antitrust remedies on the publishing industry - as they struggle to win the peace. Ricky emphasizes that now is NOT the time for incremental thinking. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

US Senators passed a bill called KOSA by 91 votes to three only for it to be derailed by Meta lobbying, leaving parents heartbroken and defeated. Is 2025 America even capable of fixing social media? Ricky and Alan are joined by KOSA expert Bailey Sanchez.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

In this Scotch & Watch episode, Ricky and Chris talk about the implications of the Google ad tech antitrust decision by Judge Brinkema as well as the Meta antitrust trial. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

We got to the end of week one of FTC v Meta antitrust trial. Ricky and Alan are joined by Brendan Benedict who was sitting in the pews all week and has some fantastic perspective on the trial, the judge and Zuck. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.