THE Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has today confirmed that the legal tests have been met to designate Google with strategic market status (SMS) in general search and search advertising services.
The UK’s new digital markets competition regime came into force on 1 January 2025, allowing the CMA to take targeted and proportionate action to improve competition in digital markets, helping to drive innovation, investment and growth across the UK economy.
Your Thurrock publisher Michael Casey said: “As a member of the Independent Community News Network (ICNN), I am very pleased with this outcome.
“There is now an opportunity for positive roundtable discussions with Google and all those with vested interests, where we hope the outcome can ensure publishers have real control over their content and that leads to a path to transparency, consent and fair payment.”
“The CMA must now push ahead with remedies and put in place a robust set of conduct requirements to ensure publishers have genuine control over when and how their valuable content is used: that means real transparency, meaningful consent, and fair payment.
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