{"id":40348,"date":"2025-06-27T10:04:59","date_gmt":"2025-06-27T10:04:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/27\/the-rundown-what-cmas-crackdown-on-google-really-means-for-publishers\/"},"modified":"2025-06-27T10:04:59","modified_gmt":"2025-06-27T10:04:59","slug":"the-rundown-what-cmas-crackdown-on-google-really-means-for-publishers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/27\/the-rundown-what-cmas-crackdown-on-google-really-means-for-publishers\/","title":{"rendered":"The Rundown: What CMA\u2019s crackdown on Google really means for publishers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The U.K.\u2019s Competition Markets Authority is taking up publishers\u2019 fight against Google\u2019s search grip.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The watchdog <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/news\/cma-takes-first-steps-to-improve-competition-in-search-services-in-the-uk\">said on Tuesday<\/a> that it wants to set more binding rules around how Google operates search in the U.K. and how publishers\u2019 content is used, including AI Overviews.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s a monumental task. And let\u2019s face it, a lot of regulatory scrutiny often lends more toward carrot than stick (with the exception of the DOJ\u2019s ongoing Google antitrust actions, and the European Commission\u2019s major antitrust fines to Google over the years). But the CMA is known as more of a negotiator than a hard-nosed regulator, according to industry experts who deal with them regularly. So what could this really change?\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><em>Continue reading this article on <a href=\"https:\/\/digiday.com\/media\/the-rundown-what-cmas-crackdown-on-google-really-means-for-publishers\/?utm_campaign=digidaydis&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_source=general-rss\">digiday.com<\/a>. Sign up for <a href=\"https:\/\/digiday.com\/newsletters\/?utm_campaign=digidaydis&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_source=general-rss\">Digiday newsletters<\/a> to get the latest on media, marketing and the future of TV.<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.K.\u2019s Competition Markets Authority is taking up publishers\u2019 fight against Google\u2019s search grip.\u00a0 The watchdog said on Tuesday that it wants to set more binding rules around how Google operates search in the U.K. and how publishers\u2019 content is used, including AI Overviews. That\u2019s a monumental task. And let\u2019s face it, a lot of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40348"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40348\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}