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5/9/25: Google, Meta & TikTok News: Legal Landscape Changes for Big Tech

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5/9/25: Google, Meta & TikTok News: Legal Landscape Changes for Big Tech

Another Bad Week for Google

  • In a court filing on Sunday, the DOJ said Google should divest its AdX exchange, where ad inventory is bought and sold. It should also sell its DFP platform, used by publishers to manage and serve ads. The sales would be overseen by a court-appointed trustee, who would find buyers and monitor compliance.

  • Cozying up to Trump (including a $1M donation to his inauguration fund) has not yet yielded any preferential treatment

TikTok Sale Deadline to Extend... Again

  • TikTok continues to be the big winner as US-based tech firms face legal headwinds

 Google Announces AI Max

  • Broad match and keywordless tech help advertisers tap into high-performing queries they may have otherwise missed. Google AI learns from existing keywords, creative, and URLs to identify new opportunities.

  • Optimistic: Expanding reach to keywords that would otherwise not be included in a campaign can lead to incremental opportunity.

  • Pessimistic: Google's track record with black box campaign types is not good.

In Other News

Zuckerberg Meta Interview
  • Zuckerberg in a recent interview:

     

    "... we’re going to get to a point where you’re a business, you come to us, you tell us what your objective is, you connect to your bank account, you don’t need any creative, you don’t need any targeting demographic, you don’t need any measurement, except to be able to read the results that we spit out."

     

    Advertisers have joked/worried about this exact future for years. Changes like this tend to benefit Meta and smaller less sophisticated advertisers that lack the resources to actively manage campaigns and develop creative. Medium to larger advertisers have less to gain and much more to lose in a black box system where brand safety and price transparency are major concerns. 

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