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Summit Snapshot: From the Enforcers – Adherence to the DAA Principles Drives Consumer Trust & Signals to Regulators That You Care

September 15, 2025

By Lou Mastria

Big Idea: Businesses that prioritize transparent, consumer-friendly privacy practices based on DAA Principles signal to regulators that they care.

Big Idea (in full): Businesses that prioritize transparent, consumer-friendly privacy practices based on DAA Principles signal to regulators that they care. Self-regulation and DAA program participation are essential for all organizations in the digital advertising space – and, in spirit – these tools support the intended goals in a good number of state privacy laws.

I’ve often said that independent enforcement is one of the keystones to the Digital Advertising Alliance’s long-standing success as a self-regulatory program. 

Summit Snapshot: Where Tech of All Sizes Meet: Data and Privacy — The Small Business Imperative

August 6, 2025

By Lou Mastria

Big Idea: Small businesses power the U.S. economy and rely on digital advertising and data to find new customers, thrive and grow.

Big Idea (in full): Small businesses power the U.S. economy and rely on digital advertising and data to find new customers, thrive and grow. As policy debates unfold, the real-world impact of state-by-state regulatory patchwork is being felt acutely by entrepreneurs and independent publishers. A unified approach, a pragmatic federal law, is not only warranted — it’s essential.

Digital Advertising Alliance Presents ‘Privacy Icon’ Award to Rudy Brioché and Federation for Internet Alerts for Policy Leadership and Life-Saving Innovation

NEW YORK, NY – June 5, 2025 – The Digital Advertising Alliance (DAA) today announced Rudy Brioché, vice president for global public policy and policy counsel at Comcast, and the Federation for Internet Alerts (FIA) as the 2025 recipients of the DAA’s “Privacy Icon” award, honoring their outstanding contributions to responsible data-driven advertising and innovation.'

Summit Snapshot: Small Business Perspectives on Digital Advertising, Privacy Regulations, and Community Impact

October 29, 2024

By Lou Mastria

Big idea: Small businesses and startups discover customers and connect with consumers by using digital advertising techniques and data to gain necessary visibility.

Lartease Tiffith, executive vice president, public policy, Interactive Advertising Bureau (left) moderates a DAA Summit 24 workshop alongside three entrepreneur panelists.

HHS Report Shows Digital Advertising Data Helped Save More than 50k Lives during COVID-19: Why This Matters Now

May 10, 2024

By Lou Mastria

Big idea: A groundbreaking HHS report showed how advertising data used to target digital vaccination ads to underserved populations helped prevent 52k deaths, 244k hospitalizations, and 2.6 million infections during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Big idea (expanded):  A groundbreaking report released by the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) this week showed how advertising data used to target digital vaccination ads to underserved and vulnerable populations helped prevent 52k deaths, 244k hospitalizations, and 2.6 million infections during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Summit Snapshot: Data 4 Good – The Ad Council, Federation for Internet Alerts Deploy Data for Vital Public Safety Initiatives

September 1, 2021

By Lou Mastria

Big Idea: Responsibly collected data informs more than just relevant digital and mobile advertising and commerce – but also some of the most important socially responsible concerns and opportunities of our time.

Consumer data, analytics, and relevant advertising are each and all a collection of powerful tools with unimaginable potential.

Summit Snapshot 19:DC: Data4Good – Goodwill® Leverages the Data Universe to Drive In-Store Shoppers

July 9, 2019

By Lou Mastria

Big Idea: Goodwill teams with Teemo and Ad Council to devise and implement a data-driven approach to drive in-store shoppers, using geolocation data and other signals to reach audiences with relevant messaging and content.

Once again, Digital Advertising Alliance Summit attendees enjoyed hearing a case study on how advertising data are being deployed for socially beneficial use – this time for an Advertising Council campaign on behalf of Goodwill. 

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