"Best Practices for Digital Media," guidelines aimed at maintaining a clear separation of online editorial content and advertising on magazine websites have been released by The Magazine Publishers of
America and American Society of Magazine Editors. Among the guidelines are mandates to clearly distinguish between editorial and advertiser-sponsored content, and a disclosure page to report
commissions from e-commerce and explain to users what the site's owners may do with information collected through cookies. Adherence to "Best Practices" is voluntary, but magazines that repeatedly
violate the standards will be ineligible for National Magazine Awards in the New Media category.
