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The Monopoly Report

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

We are covering the Google search and ad tech trials and everything else happening in and around big tech. Subscribe to our newsletter at https://monopoly.marketecture.tv

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June 4, 2025

Episode 32: Kids privacy in the ad space with Gary Kibel

In this episode, Alan Chapell chats with Gary Kibel of the law firm Davis & Gilbert about children's privacy in the ads space. We start back in 1998 with the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) and share how the ...
May 28, 2025

Episode 31: Dennis Buchheim Part 2 - on Privacy Enhancing Technologies & Standards.

Alan Chapell and Dennis Buchheim talk about the future of addressability and how to create ad standards which are both principled and fair. We also question the value of legacy tech in the ads space. Learn more about your ad ...
May 21, 2025

Episode 30: Dennis Buchheim Part 1 - on industry trades

Alan Chapell and Dennis Buchheim go deep on some of the historical challenges faced by IAB TechLab as it created Project Re arc and started moving towards a post-cookie ad space starting in 2019. Learn more about your ad choi...
May 14, 2025

Episode 29: Privacy Enhancing Technologies with Brian May

Privacy technologist Brian May joins Alan Chapell to discuss the pro's and con's of Privacy Enhancing Technologies (PETs) within the ads space - and how sometimes we need to collectively take difficult steps in order for the ...
May 7, 2025

Episode 28: Professor Daniel Solove on Privacy

In this episode, Alan Chapell chats with GW law school professor Daniel Solove about his latest book "On Privacy and Technology" as they try to find common ground between under and over regulation of the ads space. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
April 30, 2025

Episode 27: Richard Kramer on Google Antitrust Remedies

Alan Chapell speaks with Richard Kramer from Arete Research about the pro's and con's of various remedies being discussed in connection with Google's search, ad tech and Privacy Sandbox cases. Learn more about your ad choices...

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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.

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