Gannett sues Google and Alphabet, claiming they have monopoly on digital advertising

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8 thoughts on “Gannett sues Google and Alphabet, claiming they have monopoly on digital advertising

  1. Serves Gannett right! They started the extortion type control of advertisers away from local privately owned newspapers when they first bought the IndyStar. Then bought the remaining papers and shut them down. What goes around comes around!
    Plus the Gannett papers have driven readers and advertisers away with their lack of true journalism!

  2. Local news was hurt by giving their core product away two decades ago and being tricked by Facebook into thinking video was the future based on absolutely garbage numbers.

    Maybe start your own ad network given you own 200 papers

  3. I worked at The Indy Star 5 years prior to the Gannett buyout, and 2 years under Gannett. I can tell you that Mike D. has it right when he say Gannett trashed the local news industry. They are notorious for being union busters, they let most of the editorial staff go, including many of their best journalists and sports writers. The Star is a shell of its former self. Gannett made the paper undesirable, and they have been terrible at creating an online presence. And now they want to blame Google and Meta? They only have themselves to blame for putting out a substandard product. Who want to advertise in a publication and online service that nobody wants? I certainly wouldn’t!

  4. It’s a business model for the 2020s: wring what’s left out of formerly profitable, respectable institutions by cranking out throwaway propaganda for a diminishing audience, while downsizing and laying off journalists who might actually abide by their code of ethics. Keep slicing and paring away as the readership continues to go down. Anyone else remember when the redevelopment of the Nordstrom was exciting, Indy Star touting itself and promising to build civic space as well as a vintage Newsies-style coffeeshop?

    Does the Indy Star even have a big enough staff at this point to justify taking up the men’s section of the old Nordstrom?

    According to the Alliance for Audited Media, the Indy Star’s Sunday subscription numbers went from just under 200K in Fall 2018 to barely 50K in Fall 2022. A 75% decline in just four years. Only the Arizona Republic did worse (barely) but the norm among Gannett’s largest newspapers in that period was a 67% decline. Unreal.

    I’m hardly one to defend Google, but to pretend that Gannett can pin the blame is ridiculous.

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