📰 Antitrust

Semafor

Semafor reports some BP board members have discussed a breakup, which BP calls categorically false.

Antitrust

Refacto AdTech

A Google deposition filed in Gannett's antitrust case says members routinely draft communications issued by the IAB.

Antitrust

Check My Ads Institute

The court's remedies in the US ad tech case are behavioral only, so breakup advocates are now looking to the European Commission.

Advertising · Antitrust

Status

Meta's sudden ban on ByteDance advertising surprised some inside Meta, prompting talk of retaliation and antitrust concerns.

Advertising · Antitrust

CBS Sports

SEC presidents adopted uniform NIL and revenue-sharing contracts, though without the antitrust protection of union-bargained deals.

Antitrust · Labour

The New York Times

The Justice Department opened an antitrust investigation into the five White House pool networks after their brief coverage boycott.

Antitrust

The Washington Post

The Justice Department opened an antitrust probe of the five White House pool networks, which the Post called a sharp escalation against perceived press enemies.

Antitrust

Yahoo Sports

A federal judge dismissed a class action accusing Fanatics and the leagues of monopolizing trading cards.

Regulation · Antitrust

The Hill

The Senate voted 77-22 to grant the NCAA federal antitrust protections while capping athlete compensation, agent fees and annual school spending.

College sport · Antitrust

CBS Sports

The bill codifies the House v. NCAA settlement with a limited antitrust exemption, up to $50 million in annual athlete funds and a 5% cap on agent fees.

College sport · Regulation · Antitrust

SportBusiness

Paramount Skydance settled with a group of US states to resolve the antitrust suit blocking its takeover of Warner Bros. Discovery.

Regulation · Antitrust · M&A

Digiday

Google keeps AdX and DFP after its antitrust loss but faces six years of rules requiring AdX to bid into competing publisher ad servers.

Advertising · Antitrust · AI

Front Office Sports

The settlement removes the deal's biggest legal obstacle and sets up a combined CBS Sports and TNT Sports rights platform.

Regulation · Antitrust

Digiday

Google avoided a breakup, and this breaks down who actually benefits from the remedies it got instead.

Advertising · Antitrust

Marketecture

Ari Paparo lays out what the ruling actually changes for publishers, exchanges and buyers, including the end of Unified Pricing Rules.

Antitrust

Digiday

Further reading from the day's section on Ad Tech After the Verdict.

Advertising · Antitrust

Status

Paramount is in advanced talks to settle the antitrust suit blocking its $111 billion Warner Bros. Discovery merger, with an independent oversight board for CNN among the concessions discussed.

Regulation · Antitrust · M&A

Digiday

Judge Brinkema's unsealed opinion imposes behavioral remedies and a code of conduct on Google rather than a breakup.

Advertising · Antitrust

Digiday

Digiday examines who actually benefits now that Google has avoided a structural breakup.

Advertising · Antitrust

The Hill

The Senate advanced the Protect College Sports Act 74-24, shielding the NCAA from antitrust suits and capping revenue sharing and agent fees.

College sport · Regulation · Antitrust

Digiday

Further reading from the day's section on Media and Marketing When the Customer Is a Bot.

Advertising · Antitrust · AI