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Revenue grew in the double-figures for the likes of Big Tech companies Alphabet, Meta, and Amazon, as well as smaller social media competitors Snap, Pinterest and Reddit.

How publishers can insulate themselves against AI search by leveraging content in new, more powerful ways.

The decision offers confirmation of Google’s market power and enables the UK Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) to consider and implement proportionate intervention measures to ensure fair competition and treatment of businesses who rely on Google.

An estimated 100 of the 300 websites that belong to the Independent Publishers Alliance are unlikely to survive the next 15 months, a board member has warned, as referral traffic from Google dries up.

Following the court’s decision to keep Chrome with Google, publishers now have a lot more questions than answers. But a technical committee could provide some potential positive outcomes.

Advertisers should be dismayed. Instead, Google’s victory in court proves how deeply our industry has normalised monopoly.

The decision by a US district judge has sparked debate around whether enforced remedies will go far enough in tackling Google’s search monopoly and the implications for the wider digital ad ecosystem.

Havas Media Network UK’s chief digital officer speaks to host Jack Benjamin about how AI search will make upper-funnel brand strategies more important and why publishers would be wise to lean in to the new era of search even if it puts them at a disadvantage.

The Professional Publishers Association has proposed the CMA introduce conduct requirements for Google and others around transparency and clear attribution.