Big Brother is watching you.
GEORGE ORWELL<\/p>\n
We are losing control. We all know, but who really cares? Who has the power to stop the speeding train? <\/p>\n
The Big Tech powerhouses are not taking over, <\/em>they have taken over<\/em>. As retail stores close in favor of online power, marketing is dying as advertising takes over.<\/p>\n ...Consolidation of revenue continues, with Amazon, Microsoft, Oath, Twitter and Snap spending $29 billion, compared to Google-Facebook spending a staggering $169 billion in 2018.<\/p>\n With this blatantly left-leaning cartel totally dominating the digital advertising market with boycotts and blacklisting, it\u2019s more bad news for free speech and the free press.... <\/p>\n Over the next five years, this cabal\u2019s growth is projected to grow in double digits \u2013 \u201cmaking life miserable for everyone else, particularly publishers,\u201d warns the report.<\/p>\n Other highlights, or lowlights, of the report, depending on your point of view: \u201cIf this is not the time for government to reign in this cartel to maintain freedom of speech in the most important communications market in the world, I don\u2019t know when it might be,\u201d said Joseph Farah, the internet pioneer who founded the first independent online publishing concern in 1997 and who has been warning of disaster imposed by what he calls \u201cthe speech code cabal.\"<\/p>\nInformational Insights: Big Brother is Taking Over, Who Cares? <\/h2>\n
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- Digital will encompass 50 percent of all ad spending in 2022.
- 80 percent of all digital ad spending will go to the duopoly in the next five years.
- The rest of the digital market will decline by 11 percent this year.<\/p>\n