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Just last month, Google announced a weekly archive of U.S. political ads on its platform, reported here. Earlier this spring, Twitter shared its own policy on political ads in a blog post, and Facebook also shared recent developments, reported here.

The broader digital ecosystem is taking action as well, focused on the DAA’s announcement earlier this summer of an industry-wide initiative to increase transparency and accountability around digital political ads. The DAA’s new guidance for political advertisers will feature a “Political Ad” icon that will link to additional information on such ads.

Building on the success of the DAA’s existing YourAdChoices program, the DAA’s new “Political Ad” icon will serve as an immediate, simple, and intuitive tool for people to get information on the political...

Marla Kaplowitz, president and chief executive officer, 4A’s, hosted a Digital Advertising Alliance (DAA) Summit18 – ADapt! panel that explored these altruistic themes – with compelling content that truly demonstrates the depth and breadth of how data, advertising and social channels can be leveraged to make a world of difference, daily.

Photo:  4As President and Chief Executive Officer Marla Kaplowitz talks on advertising for social good at DAA Summit18 – ADapt! in Sonoma, CA.

Make Aware, Document, Intervene and Support

“Some of the remit … was to put a little soul into the marketing, but we do that by driving...

Over the years, many facets of brand safety have been in the spotlight -- adjacency, privacy, fraud, security, viewability and ad placement, among them. Interest-based advertising, for example, wholly relies on responsible data collection to target and establish connections between sellers and consumers and bolster consumer trust. Thus, such data collection, and the transparency and choice connected to it by way of Digital Advertising Alliance (DAA) Principles adherence, must be part of a brand’s brand safety strategy.

This year’s DAA Summit18 - ADapt! included a panel discussion that focused on the development of brand safety issues within the digital space -- and how businesses might manage these issues -- in the panel, “More Than a Mantra -- Brand Safety and the Digital Ad Supply Chain.”

Dick O’Brien, moderator of the panel and executive vice president of government relations at 4A’s,...

Good self-regulation requires constant vigilance and sweat equity, something that the Digital Advertising Alliance’s two Accountability Partners – the Data & Marketing Association (DMA) and the Advertising Self Regulatory Council (ASRC) of the Council of Better Business Bureaus (CBBB) – know well. Their collective hard work helps to keep privacy rules of the road embodied in DAA Principles humming along for interest-based advertising, and soon-to-be digital political advertising. Adherence via our Accountability Partner enforcement efforts provide unique and valued integrity to the DAA self-regulatory program.

That’s why it was so gratifying this past week to have an opportunity to present the case for self-regulation directly to top state and some international law enforcement officials at a ...