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Poll: Americans Want Free Internet Content, Value Interest-Based Advertising

New poll commissioned by the Digital Advertising Alliance (DAA) shows that Americans understand and appreciate the importance of the ad-supported Internet

WASHINGTON, D.C. – April 18, 2013 – Americans place great value on the availability of free Internet content, and appreciate Internet advertising that is tailored to their specific interests, a new poll finds. The survey, commissioned by the Digital Advertising Alliance (DAA), measured attitudes regarding online advertising, with a specific focus on interest-based ads.

DAA to Senate: For Consumer Choice, Build on What is Already Working

NEW YORK, NY - April 23, 2013 - Rather than seeking to impose untested and potentially harmful new restrictions on Internet advertising, lawmakers and technologists should throw their support behind the program that is already providing consumers with pinpoint choice and control over their own data, Digital Advertising Alliance (DAA) Managing Director Lou Mastria said today in testimony before the Senate Committee on Commerce Science and Transportation.

DAA Warns That Mozilla Decision Threatens Diverse, Free Internet Content

WASHINGTON – June 20, 2013 – Mozilla’s decision to summarily block the vast majority of third-party cookies for all of its users threatens to destabilize an advertising ecosystem that supports free content and services relied upon by hundreds of millions of Internet users worldwide, the Digital Advertising Alliance (DAA) warned today.

Beyond jeopardizing the amount and quality of content available to users, the plan also threatens to immediately diminish the user experience, by breaking services and tools upon which online businesses and users depend.

Leading Advertising and Marketing Industry Groups React to W3C Do-Not-Track Announcement

NEW YORK and WASHINGTON - July 16, 2013 - The 4A's, the Association of National Advertisers (ANA), the American Advertising Federation (AAF), the Digital Advertising Alliance (DAA), the Direct Marketing Association (DMA), the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB), and the Network Advertising Initiative (NAI) released the following statement today (July 16, 2013) on the W3C's recent announcement regarding Do Not Track negotiations:

Digital Advertising Alliance Unveils Program to Provide Consumer Privacy Controls in Mobile Environments

New guidance for apps, location, and personal directory data usage hailed as imperative to transparency in mobile world by nation’s largest media and marketing associations

WASHINGTON – July 24, 2013 – The Digital Advertising Alliance (DAA), the operator of the interactive media and marketing industry’s largest and most successful consumer preference program, today unveiled new guidance for assuring that its Self-Regulatory Principles currently enforced on the web are honored in mobile environments, providing consumer-friendly privacy controls in this fast-growing medium. 

Poll: Internet Users Recognize the Importance of Online Advertising and the Value of Self-Regulation

New Zogby survey reveals that users demand ad-supported content, value tools that enhance transparency and choice

WASHINGTON – November 5, 2013 – The more Internet users learn about the protections and choices available to them, the more comfortable they become with online interest-based advertising, according to a new poll conducted by Zogby Analytics on behalf of the Digital Advertising Alliance (DAA).

More than half of all Americans polled (51.3 percent) said they’d be more likely to click on an online ad that included an icon – like the Advertising Option icon – that allowed them to opt out of ad-related information collection.

New Website Launched with Ad Industry in Mind

July 17, 2014

By Lou Mastria

The Digital Advertising Alliance (DAA) has launched our newest web property, digitaladvertisingalliance.org. The new site builds on our 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.

A Reminder: Ad Marker Creative Specifications for ‘Your Ad Choices’ Icon in Mobile

August 3, 2015

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?

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