Digital Merger Watch

Digital Merger Watch is a global initiative dedicated to scrutinising and challenging Big Tech’s efforts to reinforce its dominance through mergers and acquisitions.

Big Tech is shaping the digital world in ways that impact markets, affecting people both as consumers and citizens through its effects on prices, working conditions, democracy and sovereignty. Through aggressive mergers and acquisitions, tech giants have expanded their dominance with little oversight—until now.

Digital Merger Watch (DMW) is a global initiative dedicated to scrutinising and challenging Big Tech’s efforts to reinforce its dominance through mergers and acquisitions (M&A). The DMW is built upon three main pillars: 

• Coordination
• Monitoring
• Rapid Response

Members

Digital Merger Watch brings together civil society voices often sidelined in competition policy debates. By uniting these voices, we ensure that societal concerns about corporate concentration are heard and addressed in regulatory discussions. With 17 network members and several working groups, we track and analyse acquisitions that could threaten fair competition, fundamental rights, open markets, and democratic freedoms.

The network provides a platform for members to meet, exchange information, and coordinate responses to problematic M&A activity within digital markets.

Here are the network’s current members:

Stay informed. Stay engaged.

Join us in the fight for a more open and accountable digital future.

Examples of our work include: