Google/Double Click
Federal Trade Commission
2007 WL 4624893 (2007)
- Written by Sean Carroll, JD
Facts
Google agreed to acquire DoubleClick. The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) opened an investigation to analyze the acquisition’s competitive effects in the online-advertising market. Google operated a search engine and was the dominant provider of sponsored advertising in the online-advertising market. DoubleClick was a third-party ad server that, on behalf of web page content providers (publishers), selected advertisements to appear on publishers’ websites. DoubleClick was a leading provider in the third-party-ad-server market but did not have market power. Indeed, DoubleClick faced significant and increasing competition. Google did not own or operate an ad-server product but was developing one that was not yet operational.
Rule of Law
Issue
Holding and Reasoning ()
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