Responsible Data Collection
A Reminder: Ad Marker Creative Specifications for ‘Your Ad Choices’ Icon in Mobile
By Lou Mastria
As we head closer toward September, and the independent enforcement of Digital Advertising Alliance’s Mobile Guidance, one of the most often asked questions we receive has to do with creative specifications for the indication of data collection and interest-based ads in mobile environments… Mobile Web display ads, in-app ads, and the like. Just where do advertisers place the “Your Ad Choices” Icon and what links should be in place behind the icon?
Study: Online Ad Value Spikes When Data Is Used to Boost Relevance
Ads with cookies are up to seven times more valuable, and smaller Web sites benefit disproportionately from the value those ads create
WASHINGTON – February 10, 2014 – Online advertising that uses cookie technology to increase relevance by leveraging consumers' information generates significantly greater economic value than advertising without cookies, according to an economic study by Professors Howard Beales and Jeffrey Eisenach of Navigant Economics. This new research has important implications for publishers, ad technology firms, agencies, advertisers, consumers and policy makers.
Digital Advertising Alliance to Preview Mobile Choice Tools at Annual Summit
Jessica Rich, Director of the Federal Trade Commission's Bureau of Consumer Protection, headlines packed agenda at DAA's second annual meeting
SAN FRANCISCO – June 26, 2014 – The Digital Advertising Alliance kicks off its second annual summit today with an exclusive preview of two highly anticipated mobile choice tools set to be released in the fall..
Digital Advertising Alliance Launches New Industry-Focused Website
DigitalAdvertisingAlliance.org provides guidance on the DAA's increasingly globally recognized self-regulatory program
New York – July 16, 2014 – The Digital Advertising Alliance (DAA) has launched its newest web property, digitaladvertisingalliance.org, which builds on DAA's commitment to educate the advertising industry about DAA's established and enforceable principles for responsible privacy practices across the online advertising industry, and to provide consumers with enhanced transparency and control regarding relevant advertising on their digital devices.
Digital Advertising Alliance (DAA) Enhances Privacy Controls in the Mobile Marketplace with Launch of Two New Tools for Consumers
'AppChoicesTM' and 'Consumer Choice Page for Mobile Web' Take Control and Advertising Transparency Beyond Desktop, While Delivering a Consistent Independently Enforceable Choice Experience
NEW YORK, NY - February 25, 2015 - The Digital Advertising Alliance (DAA) today launched two new mobile tools for consumers – "AppChoices" and the "DAA Consumer Choice Page for Mobile Web." These innovations supplement the self-regulatory organization’s advertising transparency and choice mechanisms already used by millions of consumers for their desktop browsers. This evolution in the DAA's choice platforms adapts consumer-friendly, independently enforceable privacy controls to the fast-growing mobile medium.
DAA Thought Leader Interview | Kathryn Farrara of Unilever
By Lou Mastria
Kathryn Farrara, Unilever, spoke at DAA Summit 2015 and provides here additional thoughts on the company’s participation in the DAA Program. She is a senior marketing counsel at Unilever, a multinational consumer packaged goods company.
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Building Audience Experiences across Devices and Platforms
By Lou Mastria
[Photo: Interactive Advertising Bureau CEO Randall Rothenberg speaks ahead of the Digital Advertising Alliance Summit 2015 session “Building Audience Experiences Across Devices and Platforms.” Session participants included left to right: Charles Curran, senior advisor to DAA (moderator); Vivian Chang, Tapad; Martin Gilliard, Experian Marketing Services; Kevin McGowan, Millennial Media; and David Weiner, Oracle.]
Digital Advertising Alliance Announces Mobile Privacy Enforcement to Begin September 1, 2015
Council of Better Business Bureaus and Direct Marketing Association Will Lead Independent Accountability Program for DAA’s Mobile Guidance
NEW YORK, NY – May 7, 2015 – The Digital Advertising Alliance (DAA) today announced that enforcement of its Principles in the mobile environment (DAA Mobile Guidance) will begin on September 1, 2015, including new guidance specific to mobile, such as cross-app data, precise location data and personal directory data. The Council of Better Business Bureaus (CBBB) and the Direct Marketing Association (DMA) will extend their ongoing independent oversight of the DAA Principles on browsers to the mobile space.
Advertising Week 2015: Celebrate Competition & Content Diversity Made Possible by Responsible IBA
By Lou Mastria
In our attention economy - where marketers compete for the attention of consumers - I'm struck how data collection for interest-based advertising (IBA) enables support for a wide range of small publishers and niche content providers, some of whom derive most or all of their income from ad network-supplied IBA. Without IBA, much less advertising in general, these entities could not survive.
Among all the parts of our advertising ecosystem we honor and recognize during Advertising Week 2015, I'd like to toast these startups and small businesses which are thankfully among us.