Thursday, November 21, 2024

Most recent articles by:

Richard B. Newman

Richard B. Newman is an Internet Lawyer at Hinch Newman LLP focusing on advertising law, Internet marketing compliance, regulatory defense and digital media matters. His practice involves conducting legal compliance reviews of advertising campaigns across all media channels, regularly representing clients in high-profile investigative proceedings and enforcement actions brought by the Federal Trade Commission and state attorneys general throughout the country, advertising and marketing litigation, advising on email and telemarketing best practice protocol implementation, counseling on eCommerce guidelines and promotional marketing programs, and negotiating and drafting legal agreements.

Supreme Court TCPA ATDS Ruling a Big Win for Telemarketers

On April 1, 2021, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a unanimous decision in the matter of Facebook, Inc. v. Duguid that is a big...

FTC Releases 2020 Annual Highlights

On March 25, 2021, the Federal Trade Commission released its 2020 Annual Highlights, emphasizing the agency’s ongoing efforts to protect consumers. “Despite the challenges of the...

FTC Order Requires Company and Its Owner to Pay $146,249, and Stop Making Deceptive ‘Made in USA’ Claims

The Federal Trade Commission recently announced that a company that sells customizable promotional products such as wristbands, lanyards, temporary tattoos, and buttons, and its...

FTC Sues Facebook for Social Network Monopolization

The Federal Trade Commission has announced that it has sued Facebook, alleging that the company is illegally maintaining its personal social networking monopoly through...

Is That Non-Circumvent Provision in Your Marketing Agreement Really Enforceable?

In California,  it depends. California is notorious in the non-compete world for its virtual prohibition and scrutiny of individual non-compete and other types of restrictive...

Noteworthy Consent-Based TCPA Win for Lead Generators

Volkswagen launched a marketing campaign.  It paid dealerships nationwide to retain a third party to place service reminder calls to their customers.  Automated technologies...

FTC Enforcement Update: SCOTUS to Decide Agency’s Monetary Restitution Authority

The Supreme Court has started its new term.  FTC defense practitioners are watching closely as the Court is considering issues that may dramatically impact...

Lead Generation Platform Developer TCPA Liability Considerations

As previously blogged about here, software developers that are engaged to design lead generation management platforms for third-party use in conjunction with direct marketing...

Must read

The Trade Desk’s Ventura: Shaking Up CTV or Just Stirring the Pot?

Connected TV (CTV) just got a wake-up call—or maybe...

From Big Ideas to Tiny Banners: How #Adtech Shrinks the Dream

When I resurrected this newsletter from the ashes of...

The Ad Tech Racket: How The Trade Desk is Taxing Your Campaigns Into Oblivion

Let’s talk about The Trade Desk (TTD) and their...

PubMatic Bets Big on Elon’s X: Bold Innovation or PR Suicide?

PubMatic has officially stepped into the lion’s den, announcing...

Zeta Global: AI Hype, Data Breaches, and Damage Control

Zeta Global (NYSE: ZETA), the self-proclaimed “AI-Powered Marketing Cloud,”...

Catalina Salazar: The #martech Dynamo Turning Wolt Into a Retail Media Juggernaut

If retail media were a chess game, Catalina Salazar...

AdMonsters Publishers Forum: Publishers’ Group Therapy, With Coffee and Cookie Anxiety

The AdMonsters Publishers Forum has officially kicked off, and...

Streamlined or Screwed? The Real Cost of Curation for Publishers

It’s official: ad tech has found its new favorite...

Can Innovid Turn Its Adtech Aspirations Into Actual Profits, or Is It Just Playing in the Sandbox?

Innovid Corp. is stuck in adtech purgatory—a company brimming...

Adsterra: The Ad Network That’s Like a Bad Tinder Date—Too Good to Be True, Then Totally Sketchy

Adsterra, the self-proclaimed “premium” ad network, hails from the...