Episodes

June 11, 2025

Episode 33: Jonathan Kanter on Antitrust & Search

Jonathan Kanter joins host Alan Chapell to discuss the changes to antitrust enforcement over the past five years and how those changes were reflected in the DOJ's enforcement against Google in the search antitrust trial. Lear...

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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 ...

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May 28, 2025

Episode 31: Dennis Buchheim Part 2 - on Privacy Enhancing Technologie…

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 ...

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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...

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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 ...

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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

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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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April 23, 2025

Episode 26: Will deprecating cookies improve the quality of the ads s…

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...

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April 9, 2025

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

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...

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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

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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/...

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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

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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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March 5, 2025

Episode 20: Eric Goldman on Section 230

In this episode, host Alan Chapell chats with Professor Eric Goldman from Santa Clara University Law School. They talk about Section 230 of the Communication Decency Act: how it came about, why it was critical to the growth o...

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Feb. 26, 2025

Episode 19: Peter Craddock on the history of consent and personal data

Peter Craddock joins Alan to talk about the history of consent and personal data under EU data protection law - and the evolution of cookie walls, paywalls, and "Pay or Consent" as used by large platforms. Learn more about yo...

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Feb. 19, 2025

Episode 18: Eric Seufert on whether Europe will kill Apple's ATT

Eric Seufert of Mobile Dev Memo joins Alan to talk about Apple ATT and the latest decision coming from Germany's Federal Cartel Office (the Bundeskartellamt). Eric shares helpful background on ATT and why competition regulato...

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Feb. 12, 2025

Episode 17: Ana Milicevic of Sparrow Advisors on cookies, the DMV and…

On this episode, host Alan Chapell has a candid discussion with Ana Milicevic about how content monetization lost its way, the risks of over simplification of privacy and the end of an Internet without borders. There's also a...

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Feb. 5, 2025

Episode 16: Ricky Sutton of the Future Media newsletter and podcast

In this Episode, host Alan Chapell talks about the historical and existential challenges being faced by the news publishing industry with journalist and tech entrepreneur Ricky Sutton of the Future Media newsletter and podcas...

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Jan. 29, 2025

Episode 15: Arielle Garcia on the Omnicom IPG merger and agencies com…

Host Alan Chapell talks about the proposed Omnicom IPG merger and the future of agency holding companies with Arielle Garcia of Check My Ads. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Jan. 22, 2025

Episode 14: Julie Shullman on Google's device fingerprinting policy s…

On this episode of the Monopoly Report, host Alan Chapell discusses Google's December 2024 policy shift on device fingerprinting with adtech privacy and legal thought leader Julie Shullman. They attempt to place historical co...

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Jan. 15, 2025

Omar Tawakol, founder of BlueKai, talks about his new start-up Rembra…

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 placement...

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Jan. 8, 2025

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

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

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Dec. 18, 2024

Episode 11: Alysa Hutnik on CIPA lawsuits and the implications for pr…

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.

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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 ...

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