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The Monopoly Report

In-depth coverage of legal and antitrust issues surrounding big tech from Marketecture.tv.

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Oct. 8, 2025

Episode 50: Part 2 - Jon Leibowitz on Antitrust and Privacy in today's digital media marketplace

Alan Chapell continues his discussion with Jon Leibowitz on some of the key regulatory issues raised from 2004 - 2013. This includes the investigation re: Google Buzz and Google's settlement of FTC charges it Misrepresented P...
Oct. 1, 2025

Episode 49: Part 1 - Jon Leibowitz and the FTC's role during the early Google Era

Host Alan Chapell is joined by Jon Leibowitz, former chair of the FTC to discuss the Commission's impact on the digital media landscape from 2004 until 2013. In part 1 of the discussion, Chapell and Mr. Leibowitz talk about t...
Sept. 24, 2025

Episode 48: The incredible shrinking definition of EU personal data

UK data protection pro Robert Bateman joins host Alan Chapell to discuss how the EU seems to be heading in the opposite direction than the U.S. as the CJEU narrows the definition of personal data ever so slightly. Robert also...
Sept. 17, 2025

Episode 47: The Datatilsynet's Tobias Judin on consent

This week, Tobias Judin from Norway's data protection regulator, the Datatilsynet (and EDPB representative), joins host Alan Chapell to talk about trust, (mis)aligned incentives, and consent in the European ads marketplace. ...
Sept. 10, 2025

Episode 46: A legal critique of the Google Antitrust Remedies Decision

This week, host Alan Chapell is joined by Daniel Hanley of the Open Markets Institute as they attempt to make legal sense of Judge Mehta's September 2, 2025, decision in the Google Search Antitrust case. In other words, they ...
Sept. 3, 2025

Episode 45: Cobun Zweifel-Keegan on the great U.S. state regulatory experiment

Cobun Zweifel-Keegan joins host Alan Chapell to discuss key themes around U.S. state efforts to enforce on privacy AI and consumer protection. We talk about regulatory tension between the federal and state governments, the ke...

About the Hosts

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Alan Chapell

CEO, The Chapell Report

Alan Chapell began his career at a boutique direct marketing agency in Connecticut. In 1996, he founded the privacy program at Jupiter Research, an Internet research firm. After his tenure at Jupiter, Chapell helped develop DoubleClick’s research product suite. He founded Chapell & Associates in October of 2003. Over the past 16 years, Chapell has worked with dozens of premium adtech and martech companies as outside counsel and privacy advisor. Chapell graduated from the University of Connecticut and Fordham University School of Law and is a member of the New York bar as well as a Certified Information Privacy Professional. He’s also a sought after speaker and a regulator contributor to Adexchanger and other publications.

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Ari Paparo

CEO

Ari Paparo is the CEO of Marketecture Media and the host of this podcast.

Ari is a well-known expert in the advertising technology world. He was the co-founder and CEO of Beeswax, an innovative ad tech platform that created the industry's first Bidder-as-a-ServiceTM. Beeswax was acquired by Comcast in 2021.

Previously, Ari has held a number of product leadership positions in the ad tech and marketing tech sectors, most recently as EVP of Product Management for Bazaarvoice, a publicly traded SaaS company that enables retailers and brands to better connect to their consumers through ratings, reviews, photos and other user generated content. Formerly, he was the Director of Product Management at Google’s DoubleClick business and the head of product management for AppNexus.

Ari was the primary author of the VAST (Video Ad Serving Template) specification for online video and the patent holder for Nielsen's Digital Advertising Ratings ("DAR"). He is a frequent contributor to AdExchanger, Insider and other industry publications as well as a speaker at advertising industry conferences.

Reviews

Best regulatory podcast in digital media

"Wide variety of guests so that episode is a bit different. Consistently an entertaining and insight filled listen. Highly recommend!!!"

Brian Draper | Aug. 26, 2025

Best regulatory podcast in digital media

"Wide variety of guests so that episode is a bit different. Consistently an entertaining and insight filled listen. Highly recommend!!!"

Jeff Green | Aug. 26, 2025

Insights are fantastic

"One of the best podasts for anyone trying to get up to speed on ad tech, digital media, privacy and regulatory."

Richard Haskell | March 6, 2025