The Monopoly Report

The Monopoly Report

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

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Jan. 15, 2025

Omar Tawakol, founder of BlueKai, talks about his new start-up Rembrandt that just raised $23 million for AI product placement

Omar Tawakol was the founder of BlueKai, a seminal company in the third-party data and DMP spaces. He talks to Alan about privacy, identity, and his new start-up Rembrandt that just raised $23 million for AI product placemen…
Jan. 8, 2025

Episode 12: Standards for data clean rooms with Jules Polonetsky and Doug Miller

Jules Polonetsky and Doug Miller of the Future of Privacy Forum join Alan Chapell to talk clean rooms. Are standards needed for data clean rooms? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Dec. 18, 2024

Episode 11: Alysa Hutnik on CIPA lawsuits and the implications for privacy law

Alysa Hutnik is a privacy law expert at Kelley Drye & Warren and she and Alan talk about the strange phenomenon of CPIA lawsuits using wiretapping statutes.
Dec. 11, 2024

Episode 10: David LeDuc of the NAI

The NAI is a trade association that was formed 25 years ago to create privacy standards for digital advertising. David has been with the NAI for six and a half years and has previously worked on public policy and legislative…
Dec. 4, 2024

Episode 6: Don Marti on the politics of browsers

Don is the VP of Ecosystem Innovation at Raptive, and spent over four years at Mozilla. We have a wide-ranging conversation about the browsers, do not track, and how they may innovate in a post-antritrust world.
Nov. 27, 2024

Episode 8: Garrett McGrath of Magnite on Sandbox and the CMA

The latest episode of the Monopoly Report dives deep into the complexities surrounding Google's Privacy Sandbox and the implications of the deprecation of third-party cookies. Host Alan Chappelle welcomes Garrett McGrath, SV…

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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.