Here, you can find an overview of our published blogs.
September 2025
In this blog we analyse the CMA’s final decision released on 22 Oct 2025 on Apple and Google’s Mobile Platforms SMS designation under the DMCCA
42- The CMA Designates Google Search with Strategic Market Status: A Comprehensive Analysis
In this blog we analyse the CMA’s final decision released on 10 Oct 2025 on Google Search’s SMS designation under the DMCCA
41- The Economics of the DMA: Insights from the European Commission’s Expert Workshop
In this blog Sebastian Steinert provides a conference debrief of the European Commission’s ‘Economics of the DMA’ conference.
40- SCiDA Submits Comprehensive Recommendations for the Digital Markets Act Review
In this blog we summarise our 29 recommendations to the Commission’s consultation on the 2025 review of the DMA.
39- Conference Debrief – Highlights from the UK Digital Markets Competition Regulation Forum 2025
In this blog we provide a conference debrief of the UK Digital Markets Competition Regulation Forum 2025.
38- Google and Apple mobile platforms SMS consultation results: A comprehensive analysis
In this blog we analyse the stakeholder respones to Apple and Google’s Mobile OS’ Proposed SMS Designation.
37- Google SMS Designation responses – A comprehensive analysis
In this blog we analyse the stakeholders responses to Google Search’s Proposed SMS Designation.
In this blog we discuss how the UK approached platform power through DMCCA action from January to August 2025.
April 2025
35- The Second Round of DMA Compliance Workshops – Compliance Progress or Slowdown?
In this blog we unpack the second round of the DMA Compliance Workshops.
34- Bye-Bye Behavioral Ads: How the DMA is breaking Meta’s Business Model
In this blog we discuss how Commission’s Article 5(2) decision could rewrite the future of behavioral advertising.
33- Apple’s Anti-Steering Aches: Key Takeaways from the first DMA Non-Compliance Decision
In this blog we discuss whether Apple can keep charging developers for customer acquisition—without crossing the DMA’s line on free steering.
32- Better late than never: DMA Non-Compliance Day
In this blog we discuss the first non-compliance decisions under the DMA.
31- This is no big deal: Europe must stand strong on Big Tech
In this blog Monika Schnitzer and Rupprecht Podszun argue for an independent EU enforcement agency.
January 2025
30- Towards effective remedies in EU competition law: Recalibrating Reg. 1/2003 to match digital market realities
In this blog Jasper van den Boom discusses papers that theorise on how the EU remedy design can be recalibrated to empower the Commission.
In this blog we summarise the Federal Court of Justice’s Apple PSCAM ruling.
28- One Year of DMA Compliance: Time to Grade the Homework
In this blog we analyse the one year of DMA compliance by gatekeepers.
27- AI Action Summit: Can Europe still enter the Competition?
In this blog Rupprecht Podszun and Leon Wardelmann discuss what role competition and digital regulation play in Europe’s quest for AI leadership.
In this blog we summarize some of the arguments from Apple’s PSCAM trial.
25- Platform for the study of systemic risk: Art. 40(4) DSA and the draft delegated act
In this blog Juliane Mendelsohn evaluates the draft delegated act and the technical details of this access right.
November 2024
24- SCiDA’s Digital Regulation Review of 2024
In this blog we relive the most memorable moments of Big Tech regulation in 2024.
23- Meta’s Less-personalised Ads: A Compliance Facade?
In this blog Sebastian Steinert analyses Meta’s tactics to protect its data-driven business model based on behavioural advertising.
22- Booking’s compliance workshop: a road well travelled?
In this blog Sarah Hinck and Jasper van den Boom discuss details of Booking’s compliance workshop.
21- Defining fairness in digital: how to operationalise an ideal?
In this blog Behrang Kianzad shares his thoughts about the concept of fairness and how it found its way into regulation.
20- A human-centred digital transformation: can we recapture the promises of the internet?
In this blog Jasper van den Boom review’s Werner Stegg’s book on human-center digital transformation.
July 2024
19- Big Tech through the lenses of Brazil’s competition watchdog CADE and the path ahead
In this blog, Vicente Bagnoli discusses the current regulatory landscape in Brazil to tackle Big Tech power and the potential path ahead below.
18- Navigating Digital Markets: A Challenge for Turkish Competition Law
In this blog, Gülce Korkmaz reveals the content, progressive nature, and risks of Türkiye’s regulatory approach to digital platform markets.
In this blog we discuss our interview with Albrecht von Sonntag, internet pioneer and co-founder of the Berlin-based online price comparison platform ‘idealo’.
16- Japan’s Enactment of the Smartphone Act
In this blog Masako Wakui shares her insights on the new Act, and the challenges it faces in opening up the smartphone ecosystems.
15- Winners & losers: Game, set and match in Google Shopping?
In this blog we discuss the official conclusion to the Google Shopping Saga.
13- SCiDA Summer Review: A Year of Digital Markets Act
In this blog we capture the highlights of the first year of the DMA and reflect on its achievements.
In this blog we highlight developments in digital antitrust throughout the summer, looking at the EU, UK, Germany, and the US.
May 2024
In this blog Viktoria Robertson provides additional remarks on the ECN DMA Workshop.
11- Conference Debrief – Highlights from the ECN DMA Workshop
In this blog we provide the highlights of the much anticipated ECN-DMA workshop.
In this blog we link to episodes 3 to 6 of the SCiDA podcast.
9- Introducing the SCiDA Podcast – Towards the ECN-DMA Workshop series
In this blog we link to our first three episodes of the SCiDA podcast.
8- Pay not OK? ‘Pay-or-consent models’ – where the GDPR, DMA and DSA meet
In this blog we reflect on the legitimacy of pay-or-consent models for gatekeepers such as Meta, and smaller undertakings.
7- The DMCCA is here! Insights from Lord Timothy Clement-Jones
In this blog we interview Lord Timothy Clement-Jones on the entry into force of the DMCCA in the UK.
6- A new summer designation – Booking.com & the DMA.
In this blog we discuss the designation of Booking as a gatekeeper under the DMA.
January 2024
In this blog we report on the Amazon hearing before the German courts, related to their designation under sec. 19a GWB.
4- Changes for end users after the DMA (so far…)
In this blog we highlight some of the early changes following DMA compliance, reflecting on whether it is enough.
3- A Week of Workshops: Observations from the DMA Compliance Workshops
In this blog we summarize the most interesting parts of the DMA compliance workshops.
2- Compliance time! Categorizing Risks of Compliance Failures in the DMA
In this blog we identify a number of compliance risks related to the gatekeepers’ obligations under the DMA.
1- Welcome to the SCiDA Project!
In this blog we introduce the SCiDA project: the aims, principles, funding, and other details of the project