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ICYMI: Digital audience measurement: How gatekeepers weaponize opacity: How digital platforms use self-preferencing tactics in audience measurement to maintain dominance. https://ppc.land/digital-audience-measurement-how-gatekeepers-weaponize-opacity/ #DigitalMarketing #AudienceMeasurement #DataTransparency #DigitalPlatforms #SelfPreferencing

ICYMI: Digital audience measurement: How gatekeepers weaponize opacity https://ppc.land/digital-audience-measurement-how-gatekeepers-weaponize-opacity/ #DigitalMarketing #AudienceMeasurement #DataTransparency #DigitalPlatforms #SelfPreferencing

Google seems to be testing a special treatment for YouTube results: they stand out in the SERPs with a light grey background.

Not so cool to give their own products such an eye-catching layout ... 🤑

#google #youtube #SERP #SEO #search #selfpreferencing

Google search engine result page for "melting". There are 5 results, two of which are for YouTube. These YouTube results have a light grey background for their snippets. This makes them very easy to notice.

@ianb Funny to hear #Microsoft thinks the 2009 deal is still operative. The ballot screen is long dead, Edge and Bing etc. are tirelessly pushed down the users' throat.

#SelfPreferencing #EU #DMA

@jon And you documented an example of #Google #SelfPreferencing while you were at it? Does Android always advertise #GoogleMaps / #GoogleBusiness or is it just this app? #DMA

OK I'm back after the lunch break, and the #Google / #Alphabet compliance workshop is heating up nicely:

They're talking Google Shopping and #selfpreferencing and competitors are accusing Google openly to be like a "dictator" and "blatantly non-compliant" with the #DMA. 👊

Influential legal opinion sides with EU Commission’s €2.4 bn fine in Google Shopping case https://www.euractiv.com/section/competition/news/influential-legal-opinion-sides-with-eu-commissions-e2-4-bn-fine-in-google-shopping-case/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #Antitrust #competition #GoogleShopping #selfpreferencing

#BlogCompetition #selfpreferencing 😉

So, do you need yellow shoes - again? #selfpreferencing

To finish up this #DMA panel on #selfpreferencing:

While it was an interesting debate about how to improve the situation of #gatekeeper's competitors, it's striking that no one wanted to discuss why we have (and whether we need) digital gatekeepers in the first place.

Oh so now #Google lobbyist says our #selfpreferencing of hotel search isn't a problem because in the end hotels benefit?

Same #DMA workshop: the #bigtech lobbyist asks how the ban on #selfpreferencing can be made compatible with all the supposed benefits of gatekeeper integrating all kinds of services.

But for lack of positive example from big tech he uses as example the financial sector which is entirely out of scope of the law in discussion. :catto:

I'm at the (highly industry-dominated) @EU_Commission workshop on #selfpreferencing under the #DMA.

It's like playing a game: every speaker tries to describe the illegal conduct of #Amazon, #Apple, and #Google without naming the companies' names :)

Speakers and audience at the European Commission's workshop on seif-preferencing under the DMA.

RT @chrisbruegel: #DMA. A timely paper on self-preferencing. It will be particularly useful for the technical workshop on #selfpreferencing on Monday by @EU_Competition. I give insights on the identification, detection, compliance and monitoring of self-preferencing. https://www.bruegel.org/policy-brief/how-implement-self-preferencing-ban-european-unions-digital-markets-act

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