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5 Sep 2025 GoogleGoogle: €2.95bn fine for self-preferencing in advertising technology EU levelAbuse of market power €2.95bn

According to the European Commission's findings, Google had, since at least 2014, abused its dominant position in publisher ad servers (DFP) and in programmatic ad buying tools (Google Ads, DV360) by favouring its own ad exchange AdX, for example by informing it in advance of the best rival bid. In addition to the fine of €2.95bn, the Commission ordered Google to end the self-preferencing and to propose measures against the conflicts of interest along the adtech supply chain; earlier fines imposed on Google for abuse of dominance were taken into account.

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A company that is dominant and active at several levels of a value chain must treat its own services and those of rivals equally and resolve conflicts of interest organisationally.

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Self-preferencing of own services by dominant companies

Authority / court: Europäische Kommission
Area of law: Competition law · Abuse of market power
Legal basis: Art. 102 AEUV; Art. 54 EWR-Abkommen
Action: Fine
Status of proceedings: unknown
Sector: Media and online platforms
Employees: 10,000 or more
Repeat case: yes
Published: 5 Sep 2025

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Commission fines Google €2.95 billion over abusive practices in online advertising technology (IP/25/1992) Press release of an authority
Presscorner-Schnittstelle, Volltext IP/25/1992 Press release of an authority

Checked against the official source on 28 Sep 2026 · Direct link

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