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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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April 23, 2025

Episode 26: Will deprecating cookies improve the quality of the ads space?

Alan Chapell is joined by media futurist and former Googler Erez Levin - who makes the case for improved metrics and incentives in digital media. Erez suggests that third-party cookie deprecation and potential antitrust break...
April 9, 2025

Episode 25: Rob Leathern - Why We Haven't Fixed Online Advertising Yet

Rob Leathern joins host Alan Chapell to discuss and debate Rob's 10 step plan for fixing the ads space - and why those things probably won't happen. Rob's Notes 19: Why We Haven't Fixed Online Advertising Yet Learn more about...
April 2, 2025

Episode 24: Rich Caccappolo - Can Publishers win the Peace?

Rich Caccappolo of DMG joins Alan Chapell to discuss news publishers' approach to content monetization and AI amidst all the regulatory noise. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
March 26, 2025

Rick Bruner - The value prop of measurement

Research and measurement guru Rick Bruner joins Alan to discuss how measurement fits into the ads space - and stirs the pot a bit re: the need for identity in measurement. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/...
March 19, 2025

Episode 22 Jessica Lee on navigating the health targeting rules

Alan Chapell speaks with Jessica Lee from Loeb & Loeb on the challenges of navigating the health targeting space in the U.S. and Europe. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
March 12, 2025

Episode 21: Omer Tene talks generative AI

Omer Tene joins host Alan Chapell to discuss generative AI and how to approach an AI impact assessment. Alan also recalls some uncomfortable discussions with tech founders. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm...

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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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