‘It has been chaotic’: 4 months into Washington State’s digital ad tax, marketers are still adjusting
One Seattle-based agency told Marketing Brew that client budgets have dropped 10%.

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One Seattle-based agency told Marketing Brew that client budgets have dropped 10%.
Legal and privacy experts say there are questions about how the law will be implemented and how it may intersect with existing data-privacy legislation.
A report from the research firm Adalytics alleges that advertisers “may be inadvertently funding a website that is known to host child sexual abuse materials.”
In closing arguments, the DOJ claimed that Google is “once, twice, three times a monopolist.”
Officials from the federal agencies have inquired about reports focused on Google, DoubleVerify, and IAS, Marketing Brew has learned.
The company’s ad placements are in hot water—again.
Some privacy laws already require companies to delete the data they’ve collected on users.
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