Tag: dmcc
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Best of both worlds: Big Tech regulation down under
Australia was an early pioneer of digital markets analysis and regulation, having investigated these issues since 2017. The ACCC has highlighted concerns about competition in digital markets in nine excellent reports during its 5-year Digital Platform Services Inquiry, which concludes in March 2025. In September 2022, the fifth report set out the concrete recommendations for…
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The UK’s digital markets regime is now law: 10 talking points
The Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers (“DMCC”) Act is finally now law in the UK. The King signed his assent today (although his views on conflicts of interest in the ad tech stack are still unknown). The legislation was passed in the “wash-up” process on the final day of this Parliament and the country is…
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YouTube should be designated under the UK’s forthcoming DMCC regime
YouTube has over 47 million UK monthly users, equating to 92% of the British online population. It is the country’s most visited website (sometimes second to Google.com), one of the most downloaded apps from Apple’s App Store, comes pre-installed on Android devices, and boasts over 700 million hours of its content watched daily on connected…