- ANA Converts 'Masters Of Marketing,' Media Confabs To Virtual Events
MAD, Steve McClellan - Wednesday, July 15, 2020
The Masters of Marketing Conference usually draws a Who's Who of top marketing and agency executives. The virtual version is set for Oct. 21-23. ...
- Washington, D.C. Advances Plan To Tax Advertising, Sale Of Personal Information
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, July 8, 2020
The Washington, D.C. City Council voted to compensate for a COVID-19-related budget shortfall by imposing a new 3% tax on advertising and on the sale of "personal information." ...
- ANA Asks California Governor To Delay Privacy Enforcement, Scrap Global Opt-Out Mandate
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Friday, June 26, 2020
"Consumers, businesses, and the public health would benefit from a reasonable forbearance of enforcement during this pandemic," the Association of National Advertisers says in a letter sent this week to ...
- Watchdogs Press FTC To Crack Down On Influencer Marketing
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, June 23, 2020
The Federal Trade Commission should step up efforts to discourage phony online endorsements, Consumer Reports urges. ...
- Drug Price Disclosure Mandate Scrapped By Appeals Court
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, June 16, 2020
Handing a victory to the ANA and drug companies, a federal appellate court Tuesday invalidated a rule that would have required television and streaming video ads for prescription drugs to ...
- TV Marketers Long Desired A Calendar-Year Upfront, Recommended By ANA In COVID-Related Push
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Wednesday, June 10, 2020
The ANA says overall changes in the timing of upfront marketing are necessary and will "reflect and improve business planning, elevate marketer decision-making, and align television buying with most marketers' ...
- Ad Industry Protests California AG's Proposed Privacy Rules
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, June 9, 2020
The ad industry wants California to scrap a proposed privacy regulation that would require companies to honor requests by consumers to opt out of the sale of their data on ...
- Four Republican Senators Urge FCC To Crack Down On Social Media
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, June 9, 2020
Republican lawmakers say social media companies "blur the lines" between publisher and distributor -- even though Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act eliminated that distinction. ...
- ANA Calls On TV Industry To Permanently Delay Upfronts, Shift To Calendar-Year Deals
MediaDailyNews, Joe Mandese - Wednesday, June 10, 2020
A day after calling for "sweeping changes" to transform the ad industry's diversity, the Association of National Advertisers this morning issued another call for "sweeping changes" in the "media ecosystem" ...
- ANA Advises Wait-And-See Approach To Trump Social Media Order
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, June 3, 2020
President Trump's recent order regarding social media violates the First Amendment, but reacting to that order now would be premature, according to the Association of National Advertisers' general counsel Doug ...
- California AG Moves Forward With Privacy Regulations
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, June 2, 2020
The final proposed regulations retain a provision requiring companies to honor global do-not-sell requests, including those sent through browser controls. ...
- Heeding ANA Call To Reform TV Buying
Media Insider, Dave Morgan - Thursday, May 28, 2020
One change ANA suggests: that the "upfront shift from a broadcast year to a calendar year to reflect and improve business planning." ...
- ANA Urges Federal Lawmaker To Oppose California Privacy Proposal
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Thursday, May 21, 2020
"Our nation's ad-supported news media faces a regulatory hammer blow from these new browser obligations against the anvil of the pandemic-driven pullback in the broader ad market," ANA CEO Bob ...
- Maryland Governor Vetoes Digital Ad Tax
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Thursday, May 7, 2020
"With our state in the midst of a global pandemic and economic crash, and just beginning on our road to recovery, it would be unconscionable to raise taxes and fees ...
- Association Chiefs On Innovation, Collaboration And Flattening 'The Curve'
MediaDailyNews, Joe Mandese - Monday, May 4, 2020
During a joint webinar Monday the heads of Madison Avenue's two top trade associations talked about the pandemic's impact on the ad biz, how the tiff between the two organizations ...
- Michigan Revokes Ad Restrictions On Big-Box Retailers
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Saturday, April 25, 2020
Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer on Friday rescinded an order that prohibited big-box retailers from advertising non-essential items. ...
- To Help Ad Industry 'Step Up,' ANA Takes Down Members-Only Wall To Exclusive Content
MediaDailyNews, Joe Mandese - Tuesday, April 21, 2020
To help the entire advertising and media community through the pandemic and economic crises, the Association of National Advertisers has opened much of its exclusive member content and tools to ...
- Michigan Governor Urged To Lift Non-Essential Ad Restrictions
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, April 14, 2020
The Association of National Advertisers is urging Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer to rescind a recent order prohibiting large retailers from advertising non-essential items. ...
- Maryland Governor Urged To Veto Digital Ad Tax
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Thursday, April 2, 2020
"The proposed tax on digital advertising represents one of the most serious threats to commercial advertising in several decades," the ANA, IAB and dozens of other groups say in a ...
- Proposed California Privacy Regs Violate First Amendment, Ad Groups Claim
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Monday, March 30, 2020
Ad groups say a proposed requirement to honor browser-based opt-out tools would violate companies' free speech right to share information. ...
- Movie Industry, Newspapers Join Request To Postpone California Privacy Enforcement
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Monday, March 23, 2020
The MPAA and News Media Alliance have joined a growing roster of groups seeking to delay enforcement of the state's sweeping new privacy law due to the COVID-19 outbreak. ...
- Maryland Passes Digital Ad Tax
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Thursday, March 19, 2020
The Association of National Advertisers, which opposes the new tax, is asking Gov. Larry Hogan to veto it. ...
- COVID-19 Warrants Delaying Enforcement Of California Privacy Law, Ad Groups Say
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, March 18, 2020
"Now is not the time to threaten business leaders with premature CCPA enforcement lawsuits," the Association of National Advertisers, Interactive Advertising Bureau, American Association of Advertising Agencies and other groups ...
- ANA Cancels Annual Media Conference
MAD, Steve McClellan - Thursday, March 12, 2020
The conference had been scheduled for Miami March 25-27. The status of future ANA events will be evaluated on a case-by-case basis. ...
- ANA Finds Serious Problem: Marketing Students Just Wanna Have Fun
MediaDailyNews, Joe Mandese - Wednesday, March 4, 2020
There's a fundamental disconnect between the goals of the ad industry to become more serious, analytical and both quantitatively and qualitatively "data-intensive" and the culture of American universities educating the ...
- ANA Seeks To Postpone California Privacy Enforcement
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, February 25, 2020
The ANA argues in its 18-page comments that companies will need an additional six months to comply with the "novel and operationally complex" measure. ...
- Proposed California Privacy Rules Draw Mixed Reaction From ANA
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, February 19, 2020
Draft regulations "still have significant problems that, if left uncorrected, will negatively impact both consumers and businesses." ...
- Advertisers Blast Maryland's Proposed Digital Ad Tax
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Friday, January 31, 2020
A proposed bill in Maryland that would tax digital advertising is "extremely detrimental," and would "create a regulatory enforcement nightmare," the Association of National Advertisers says. ...
- Ad Groups Want California To Hold Off Enforcing Privacy Law
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, January 29, 2020
The ad industry now says businesses need additional time to comply with the rules. A set of draft regulations was issued by Attorney General Xavier Becerra in October. ...
- Microsoft Backs Washington State Privacy Proposal
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Friday, January 24, 2020
"We believe it is important to enact strong data privacy protections to demonstrate our state's leadership on what we believe will be one of the defining issues of our generation," ...
