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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001140361-23-030390"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "TDAY"
cik: "0001579684"
company_name: "USA TODAY Co., Inc."
filed_at: "2023-06-20T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-13T21:18:11.401583+00:00"
event_type: "litigation"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.55
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.55
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Gannett files antitrust lawsuit against Google over ad-tech monopolization

## Summary
- Filed civil action in SDNY against Google and Alphabet for anticompetitive monopolization of digital advertising markets.
- Alleges Google's ad-tech tools depress publisher ad prices; cites Google's $30B revenue from publisher ad space in 2022.
- Seeks injunctive relief and damages; estimates very substantial damages even before mandatory trebling.
- Legal counsel Kellogg Hansen, known for largest antitrust verdicts; cost not expected to be material.
- Joins existing litigation; DOJ case to go to trial next year; expects faster timeline.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001140361-23-030390
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: TDAY
- cik: 0001579684
- company_name: USA TODAY Co., Inc.
- filed_at: 2023-06-20T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: litigation
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.55
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.55
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 7.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1579684/000114036123030390/0001140361-23-030390-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1579684/000114036123030390/brhc20054612_8k.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001140361-23-030390.txt

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