Marketers Bring Antitrust Suit Against Google (mediapost.com)

Three online advertisers are suing Google for allegedly violating antitrust laws by monopolizing “digital advertising markets.”

“Google leveraged its stranglehold on online search and search advertising to gain an illegal monopoly in brokering display advertising on other companies’ websites,” the marketers allege in a class-action complaint filed last week in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California. The case was filed on behalf of Washington, D.C. tour company Grand Atlas Tours, Delray Beach, Florida-based Prana Pets (which sells herbs for dogs and cats) and the San Francisco law firm Hanson Law.

They claim Google “achieved this market dominance in part by acquiring rivals in the online advertising space, conditioning access to its search-results data and YouTube video advertising platform upon the purchase of its separate display advertising services, and ensuring those systems were not compatible with those of its competitors in online advertising.”
more detail at source: https://www.mediapost.com/publications/article/352031/marketers-bring-antitrust-suit-against-google.html

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