Why Google Dominates Advertising Markets
Approximately 86% of online display advertising space in the U.S. is bought and sold in real-time on electronic trading venues, which the industry calls "advertising exchanges." With intermediaries that route buy and sell orders, the structure of the ad market is similar to the structure of electronically traded financial markets. In advertising, a single company, Alphabet (“Google”), simultaneously operates the leading trading venue, as well as the leading intermediaries that buyers and sellers go through to trade. At the same time, Google itself is one of the largest sellers of ad space globally. This Paper explains how Google dominates advertising markets by engaging in conduct that lawmakers prohibit in other electronic trading markets: Google’s exchange shares superior trading information and speed with the Google-owned intermediaries, Google steers buy and sell orders to its exchange and websites (Search & YouTube), and Google abuses its access to inside information. In the market for electronically traded equities, we require exchanges to provide traders with fair access to data and speed, we identify and manage intermediary conflicts of interest, and we require trading disclosures to help police the market. Because ads now trade on electronic trading venues too, should we borrow these three competition principles to protect the integrity of advertising?
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2020
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Authors: | Srinivasan, Dina |
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[S.l.] : SSRN |
Subject: | Werbung | Advertising | Suchmaschine | Search engine | Marktmacht | Market power | Online-Marketing | Internet marketing | Theorie | Theory | Informationsverbreitung | Information dissemination |
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freely available
Extent: | 1 Online-Ressource (121 p) |
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Type of publication: | Book / Working Paper |
Language: | English |
Notes: | In: 24 STAN. TECH. L. REV. 55 (2020) Nach Informationen von SSRN wurde die ursprüngliche Fassung des Dokuments December 9, 2019 erstellt |
Source: | ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW |
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014032505
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