By John Eggerton, Multichannel News, 1-19-22 The Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) has taken aim at the Banning Surveillance Advertising Act, which would ban the use of personal information to target most online advertising, saying the bill would kill the commercial Internet as we know it. The bill was introduced this week by Reps. Anna [...]
FOR RELEASE: January 19, 2022 Contact: Richard T. Kaplar The Media Institute 703-243-5700 Arlington, Va., January 19, 2022 – As the COVID-19 pandemic stretches into 2022, The Media Institute’s Digital Media Center today released publicly for the first time its insightful analysis of post-pandemic digital media trends published in mid-2021. The White Paper is [...]
By John Eggerton, Multichannel News, 1-18-22 The Biden Administration signaled Jan. 18 that it would be updating and strengthening merger guidelines in the face of a surge of consolidation it argues has reduced competition and consumer choice. That came in an announced “public inquiry” they said was expected to result in “strengthening enforcement against [...]
By John Eggerton, Multichannel News, 1-18-22 A trio of Democratic legislators has introduced a bill that would ban the use of personal information to target most online advertising. The bill defines that personal information broadly, saying it comprises "data linked or reasonably linkable to an individual or connected device, including inferred and derived data, [...]
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By John Eggerton, Multichannel News, 1-17-22 The Senate Judiciary Committee plans to hold a markup this week on a bill to promote competition in an app market dominated by Apple and Google. The Jan. 20 markup, where a bill is amended and voted on (or sometimes not), will be on the Open App Markets [...]
By John Eggerton, Multichannel News, 1-14-22 AT&T was the big winner in the FCC’s 2.45 GHz 5G auction, with the largest gross total at $9,079,177,491 and the most licenses won at 1,624. The assignment phase of the auction closed earlier this month following the clock phase, which ended in November. Number two in gross [...]
By John Eggerton, Multichannel News, 1-13-22 The ranking member on the powerful Senate Commerce Committee wants the relationship between new FCC Chair Jessica Rosenworcel and new NTIA head Alan Davidson to start out on the right foot. In a letter to both, Sen. Roger Wicker (R-Miss.), called on the Federal Communications Commission and the [...]
By John Eggerton, Multichannel News, 1-12-22 A D.C. District Court judge has said the Federal Trade Commission can proceed with its antitrust suit against Facebook, but not with its allegation that Facebook blocked app interoperability (its so-called “platform policies”). While Judge James E. Boasberg said the agency “may” have a tough time proving its [...]
Participated in an amicus brief (with the Reporters Committee and 62 other amici) filed with the Supreme Court of the State of New York Appellate Division, Second Department in Project Veritas v. New York Times Co. On Dec. 24, 2021, a New York trial court entered an order continuing a restraint on the New [...]