YourAdChoices
Digital Advertising Alliance Launches Opt-Out Functionality for Hashed Phone Number Identifiers
Ad-Related Companies Can 'Future-Proof' Their Identity Plans by Integrating DAA’s Token-ID-Based Tool for Email and Now Phone-Based Choices
WASHINGTON, D.C. – August 2, 2023 – The Digital Advertising Alliance (DAA) today launched new beta functionality allowing individuals to opt out of interest-based advertising (IBA) via the submission of “hashed” -- or encrypted -- phone numbers.
Coalition of Privacy Self-Reg Orgs Launch Uniform Approach to CMP-Specific Controls and Network-Wide Privacy Choices
Regional Digital Advertising Alliances (DAAs) Release Tech Specifications to Help Brands and Publishers Simplify & Improve User Choice Experience
Digital Advertising Alliance Launches Initial Certification Process for Addressable Media Identifiers (AMIs)
AMI Providers Must Certify Compliance with AMI Policy Framework; TrustArc to Extend DAA Role to Serve as Initial Certification Partner; LiveRamp First Provider to Undergo Certification; Prebid Addressability Framework To Be Initial Software Service
New York, NY – May 3, 2022 – Today the Digital Advertising Alliance (DAA) announced the launch of its initial certification process for providers of Addressable Media Identifiers (AMIs).
In a New Year, Still amid a Pandemic, Responsible, Relevant Digital Advertising Remains Strong as Direct-to-Consumer Grows and DAA Continues to Help with Brand-Consumer Engagement
By Lou Mastria
Among profound circumstances, we are more focused than ever toward keeping advertisers and their customers engaging in transparent, trustworthy ways in 2021.
2020 may be in a rear-view mirror, but its impact on all of us – professionally as well as personally – remains significant. What we once might have taken for granted, soon became cherished: just the ability to wake up each day, be with our families, and go to work. Such an existence – anything but mundane – wasn’t available to everyone.
Consumer Education: Guiding User Choice -- en Español, También
By Lou Mastria
Keeping users informed and empowered on their data collection control for interest-based advertising is central to DAA’s consumer education efforts – both in English and Spanish.
Consumer education is an evergreen principle of Digital Advertising Alliance. That’s why each year, we update and renew our efforts to keep browser and mobile app users in the know about the YourAdChoices program. With trillions having been served, the YourAdChoices Icon continues to be an ever-present and real-time gateway to disclosures about data collection for interest-based advertising, and providing opt-out options.
It’s Not Wonderful to Imagine a World without Self-Regulation
By Lou Mastria
Let’s take an “It’s a Wonderful Life” test to see what-could-have-been scenarios.
There’s been some discussion over the last week about the effectiveness our current self-regulatory regime for digital interest-based advertising. There is always room for improvement, a goal toward which the digital advertising industry continually works collaboratively with policymakers (and which has resulted in policy updates every two years to keep pace with this rapidly-evolving medium).
Transparency in Digital Political Advertising | Rising to the Top
By Lou Mastria
After Labor Day, the 2018 general election season kicks into high gear. Likewise, momentum continues to build in digital and social channels regarding transparency markers for political ads.
Just last month, Google announced a weekly archive of U.S. political ads on its platform, reported here.
Despite Headline, Survey Shows Strong ‘AdChoices’ Awareness
By Lou Mastria
The following contributed op-ed authored by DAA Executive Director Lou Mastria appeared on MediaPost on May 11, 2018, in response to a Media Daily News story earlier this month: "Study Finds Few Americans Choose Ad Choices, Know It Exists"
DAA Webinar this Week: How to Take Ad Transparency to the Next Level and Earn Consumer Trust
By Lou Mastria
If you are involved with managing a site or running an app where interest-based advertising (IBA) is present – or where any data collection for IBA takes place – the DAA’s webinar this Thursday (April 5, 2018) is designed for you, especially.
Our April 5 Webinar is for brands and publishers – both business-to-business and consumer – as well as agencies and ad tech companies with their own apps and sites, or which design and support the sites and apps of others.