Sen. Amy Klobuchar believes antitrust reform is what it will take to preserve what she calls American capitalism. The senator has signaled support for a breakup of Facebook and Instagram, a dismantling of Google’s dominant ad infrastructure and regulatory inspection of data-hungry moves like Google’s FitBit acquisition. “Technologies are controlled by a handful of companies that have amassed unprecedented power,” said Klobuchar during her Jan. 29 State of the Net Conference keynote. Tech giants have control of “gateways over our personal data, power over what ads we see and what news we watch and monopoly power in key digital markets.” Read more below. Other things to know about - Next week: From the changing social media landscape to data and privacy, we’ll explore the issues media buyers are facing and the subsequent solutions for a successful 2021 at the Digiday Media Buying Summit LIVE.
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| Privacy | | | | The Minnesota Democrat often links her signature issue – antitrust reform – to other concepts like data privacy, media industry fairness and even the first amendment. | | |
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howdy! | Brands in Culture | | | | A new push for flexibility isn’t likely to go away despite hope for a return to some sense of normalcy as the vaccine rollout ramps up. | | |
| Sponsored by ActiveMedia | | | | Customer experience is rapidly becoming more designable, more accessible and more creative. It is also impossible to ignore its importance to marketing. | | |
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howdy! | Publishing on Facebook | | | | Some publishers now see as much as 20% of their Facebook referral traffic coming from Facebook News. | | |
| Sponsored by Alliant | | | | Mounting pressure on legacy digital identifiers and expanding consumer data regulations recently prompted leading management consultancy, the Winterberry Group, to explore the marketing industry’s response. | | |
howdy! | Publishing in the Platform Era | | | | Harper’s Bazaar digital director Nikki Ogunnaike is growing and monetizing its audience while strategizing around digital trends. | | |
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| Sponsored by Digilant | | | | How are marketers using analytics to drive growth? This live panel turns to Harvard University’s executive director of strategic planning and marketing for answers. Join this webinar on March 24 at 12 p.m. EDT to learn more. | | |
howdy! | Future of Work | | | | The move to remote working has made it more difficult to promote company culture and remind staffers what the organization stands for. | | |
howdy! | Future of Work | | | | The coronavirus pandemic has put subscriber hotels like Zoku at the center of the emerging work-from-anywhere movement. | | |
| Publishing in the Platform Era | | | | Harper's Bazaar digital director Nikki Ogunnaike is growing and monetizing its audience while strategizing around digital trends. |
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