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15 August 2019
Volkswagen and Philadelphia cheese are the first brands to fail the Advertising Standard Authority’s new rules on gender stereotyping in ads, which came into force in June, with industry bodies expressing surprise and concern at the bans.
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14 August 2019
French broadcasters can breathe a sigh of relief as the country’s regulator gave the green light to plans to join forces to create a digital platform to challenge Netflix.
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07 August 2019
The Coca-Cola Company has faced criticism in Hungary from a member of the country’s ruling ultra-conservative Fidesz party over a series of ads that promote LGBT acceptance, and were timed to run alongside the major international music and ...
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31 July 2019
Websites that embed Facebook’s ‘Like’ button are now jointly liable for the initial processing of user data and must get consent from European Union visitors before transferring it to the social network, or be able to ...
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29 July 2019
Australia is likely to open the world’s first office dedicated to policing Facebook and Google following recommendations from the country’s consumer watchdog, which spent the past 18 months examining the dominance of leading digital ...
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29 July 2019
Videos on YouTube that feature children who appear to be under the age of 13 are among the most popular on the platform despite the company’s stated policy that its site is not intended for children under that age, a new study has revealed.
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Stephen Whiteside, Event Reports, Cannes Lions, June 2019
Mars, the confectionery giant, has a commitment to responsible marketing that helps steer its communications activity in various ways.
Opinion
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Chris Bennett, June 2019
Ensuring brand safety is a basic requirement of digital advertising. Now it’s time to consider brand suitability, says Chris Bennett of Pixability.
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13 May 2019
Singapore’s parliament last week overwhelmingly voted in favour of controversial legislation that gives the authorities sweeping new powers to order the correction or removal of online content.
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09 May 2019
A combination of consumer concerns, government regulation and the example provided by GDPR means that marketers across Asia are increasingly having to consider how they use personal data.
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08 May 2019
TikTok, the Chinese short-form video-sharing app, is stepping up its efforts to woo users and advertisers in India even as the threat of further legal action hangs over it.
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Jake Dubbins and Harriet Kingaby, Admap, May 2019
Increasingly, brands – and the platforms that they advertise on – are making headlines for all the wrong reasons, causing damage to brand reputation amid fake news, hate speech and ad fraud.
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Gerard M. Stegmaier and Mark Quist, Admap, May 2019
The California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (CCPA) will transform the legal compliance requirements for businesses that buy, sell, and use personal information throughout the global advertising ecosystem.
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02 May 2019
Bot fraud will fall to $5.8bn in 2019, when more attempts at this kind of deception will fail than succeed for the first time, according to a study from trade body the Association of National Advertisers (ANA) and cybersecurity firm White Ops.
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01 May 2019
As “gatekeepers” to most Australians’ food and beverage shopping, the nation’s four major supermarket chains can play a much more active role in people’s health, a new report suggests.
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25 April 2019
Gaming is big business in China – the video gaming market is four times bigger than the movie industry – but recent regulatory interventions have the potential to reshape the environment.
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10 April 2019
The topic of content moderation has become an increasing priority for social media companies and those that do business with them.
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09 April 2019
Media companies including ESPN and Turner are carving out new content opportunities following last May’s Supreme Court decision to lift a 1992 ban on sports betting.
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08 April 2019
Individual executives at social media companies could be held personally liable for harmful content distributed on their platforms, according to plans drawn up by the British government.
Opinion
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Anna Hamill, April 2019
When a gunman killed 50 Muslim worshippers and seriously injured dozens more in the peaceful city of Christchurch, New Zealand, shock reverberated around the world that such an act could happen in a country best known for its spectacular landscapes and friendly people.
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04 April 2019
Big tech is expressing alarm over the Lion City’s latest proposals to protect its citizens from fake news with its Protection from Online Falsehoods and Manipulation Bill.
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02 April 2019
Google has stopped carrying advertisements in China for two sites that help web users in the country find ways to get around censorship laws.
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29 March 2019
Unilever, the consumer goods giant and second largest advertiser in the world, is launching a “trusted publishers” network with the aim of giving the company more control and visibility over where its ads are placed online.
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28 March 2019
The World Federation of Advertisers (WFA) has called on all brands globally to hold social media platforms to account in light of recent failures to block dangerous and hateful content.
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27 March 2019
The heads of the Association of New Zealand Advertisers and the Commercial Communications Council have published an open letter calling on the international advertising community to use its clout to force changes at Facebook.
