http://www.ana.net/advocacy/allnews/2/2 Fri, 09 May 2008 21:32:19 -0400 Fri, 09 May 2008 21:32:19 -0400 http://www.ana.net/advocacy/content/1189 http://www.ana.net/advocacy/content/1189 Tue, 29 Apr 2008 15:24:38 -0400 The sales tax exemptions under Florida law for advertising and other business services may once again be under attack. http://www.ana.net/advocacy/content/1178 http://www.ana.net/advocacy/content/1178 Fri, 18 Apr 2008 13:52:31 -0400 ANA has urged members of the New York State Legislature to reject two bills that would impose serious new state-specific restrictions on online behavioral advertising. http://www.ana.net/advocacy/content/1145 http://www.ana.net/advocacy/content/1145 Thu, 10 Apr 2008 12:12:03 -0400 Legislation was introduced in the U.S. Senate on Tuesday that would make sweeping changes in the enforcement powers of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC). If passed by the Congress, these changes could have serious implications for virtually every sector of the business community. http://www.ana.net/advocacy/content/1143 http://www.ana.net/advocacy/content/1143 Wed, 09 Apr 2008 15:49:20 -0400 ANA, along with eleven other industry groups, has filed comments today on the Federal Trade Commission’s proposed self-regulatory principles for online behavioral advertising. http://www.ana.net/advocacy/content/1141 http://www.ana.net/advocacy/content/1141 Thu, 03 Apr 2008 09:30:06 -0400 The U.S. House of Representatives Energy and Commerce Committee has favorably reported H.R. 1108, the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act to the full House. http://www.ana.net/advocacy/content/1100 http://www.ana.net/advocacy/content/1100 Thu, 13 Mar 2008 16:40:09 -0400 The United States Senate passed the CPSC Reform Act (H.R. 4040) on March 6, 2008 with some modifications to provisions that were of concerns to the advertising industry. http://www.ana.net/advocacy/content/1097 http://www.ana.net/advocacy/content/1097 Tue, 11 Mar 2008 12:52:23 -0400 The House Energy and Commerce Committee Health Subcommittee plans to complete a markup today of H.R. 1108, the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act, which contains extraordinarily sweeping rules relating to tobaco advertising. http://www.ana.net/advocacy/content/1073 http://www.ana.net/advocacy/content/1073 Mon, 03 Mar 2008 14:18:55 -0500 ANA has sent a letter up to the United States Senate detailing our concerns with provisions in S. 2663, The CPSC Reform Act. http://www.ana.net/advocacy/content/1067 http://www.ana.net/advocacy/content/1067 Thu, 28 Feb 2008 11:45:12 -0500 The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has announced a public workshop to examine developments in green packaging claims and the consumer perception of such claims. http://www.ana.net/advocacy/content/1065 http://www.ana.net/advocacy/content/1065 Wed, 27 Feb 2008 16:30:16 -0500 ANA is working with a coalition of companies and industry groups to file comments with the FTC and to demonstrate the problems with a Do Not Track regime. http://www.ana.net/advocacy/content/987 http://www.ana.net/advocacy/content/987 Fri, 14 Dec 2007 13:37:23 -0500 The Federal Communications Commission is holding discussions at their open commission meeting on Tuesday, December 18 regarding the use of embedded advertising (or product placement) in media. http://www.ana.net/advocacy/content/969 http://www.ana.net/advocacy/content/969 Mon, 03 Dec 2007 16:26:50 -0500 The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has announced that it will begin a review of its environmental marketing guidelines and hold hearings or workshops over the next several months on a number of green marketing topics, including "sustainable" and "renewable" claims. http://www.ana.net/advocacy/content/967 http://www.ana.net/advocacy/content/967 Thu, 29 Nov 2007 16:39:48 -0500 It has been reported that Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Kevin Martin will ask the Commission to begin a formal examination of the agency current disclosure rules for product placement in television programming. http://www.ana.net/advocacy/content/965 http://www.ana.net/advocacy/content/965 Wed, 28 Nov 2007 15:12:44 -0500 The U.S. Conference of Mayors has released an economic impact report which forecasts sharp gross domestic product losses as a result of the ongoing foreclosure crisis. http://www.ana.net/advocacy/content/939 http://www.ana.net/advocacy/content/939 Wed, 14 Nov 2007 15:36:55 -0500 Former State Senate President John McKay, now a member of the Florida Taxation and Budget Reform Commission, has proposed a constitutional amendment to require the Florida Legislature to reduce property taxes by extending the sales tax to most business services. http://www.ana.net/advocacy/content/829 http://www.ana.net/advocacy/content/829 Mon, 01 Oct 2007 14:50:09 -0400 The Association of National Advertisers (ANA) and our sister associations, the American Association of Advertising Agencies (AAAA) and the American Advertising Federation (AAF) have filed comments with the Federal Election Commission (FEC) on a proposed rulemaking regarding "electioneering communications." http://www.ana.net/advocacy/content/825 http://www.ana.net/advocacy/content/825 Thu, 20 Sep 2007 16:40:28 -0400 The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) will host a two-day Town Hall meeting to examine privacy issues and online behavioral advertising – the practice of tracking consumers’ activities online in order to target advertising to them. http://www.ana.net/advocacy/content/756 http://www.ana.net/advocacy/content/756 Thu, 19 Jul 2007 12:10:05 -0400 The Council of Better Business Bureaus (CBBB) yesterday announced the details of the new marketing pledges of 11 major food, beverage and restaurant companies under the Council’s Children’s Food and Beverage Advertising Initiative. The pledges were described at a joint forum hosted by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) on food marketing to children. http://www.ana.net/advocacy/content/739 http://www.ana.net/advocacy/content/739 Tue, 17 Jul 2007 15:20:46 -0400 Tomorrow, the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee will consider S. 625, a bill to transfer regulatory authority over tobacco products and advertising to the Food and Drug Administration. ANA, along with the American Association of Advertising Agencies and the American Advertising Federation, has sent a letter to the committee detailing the constitutional problems with the advertising provisions in the bill. http://www.ana.net/advocacy/content/720 http://www.ana.net/advocacy/content/720 Thu, 12 Jul 2007 11:54:51 -0400 ANA has sent a letter to the Senate Appropriations Committee in opposition to Senator Sam Brownback’s (R-KS) proposed amendments to the Financial Services and General Government Appropriations bill regarding indecent and violent television content. http://www.ana.net/advocacy/content/702 http://www.ana.net/advocacy/content/702 Tue, 26 Jun 2007 10:00:00 -0400 At a hearing held today on children and media violence, ANA filed a policy statement with the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee expressing our deep concern about any attempt by Congress to regulate violent content and restrict it in a manner similar to indecency. http://www.ana.net/advocacy/content/699 http://www.ana.net/advocacy/content/699 Fri, 22 Jun 2007 14:43:13 -0400 At yesterday’s markup of the drug safety bill, the House Energy and Commerce Committee preserved language passed during the Health Subcommittee markup that replaced five provisions in the original that would have imposed burdensome restrictions on advertising. http://www.ana.net/advocacy/content/697 http://www.ana.net/advocacy/content/697 Wed, 20 Jun 2007 12:26:07 -0400 Yesterday, the Health Subcommittee of the House Energy and Commerce Committee passed an amendment sponsored by Reps. Ed Towns (D-NY) and Steve Buyer (R-IN) removing extremely onerous restrictions on advertising from the drug safety bill. http://www.ana.net/advocacy/content/695 http://www.ana.net/advocacy/content/695 Mon, 18 Jun 2007 17:22:27 -0400 The Association of National Advertisers (ANA) has urged the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to reject a proposed change in the Guides Concerning the Use of Endorsements and Testimonials in Advertising. http://www.ana.net/advocacy/content/690 http://www.ana.net/advocacy/content/690 Tue, 12 Jun 2007 15:52:58 -0400 The Health Subcommittee of the House Energy and Commerce Committee held a legislative hearing today on a number of discussion drafts of pending bills, including the drug safety bill originally introduced by Reps. Ed Markey (D-MA) and Henry Waxman (D-CA), which contains a number of provisions that would severely restrict DTC advertising for new drugs. http://www.ana.net/advocacy/content/687 http://www.ana.net/advocacy/content/687 Thu, 07 Jun 2007 11:50:25 -0400 The Chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Health, Congressman Frank Pallone, has released a discussion draft of the drug safety bill. That draft contains five new restrictions on prescription drug advertising to consumers. http://www.ana.net/advocacy/content/684 http://www.ana.net/advocacy/content/684 Wed, 06 Jun 2007 10:44:51 -0400 The House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Health is expected to markup a drug safety bill on Wednesday, June 13, 2007. It is possible that there may be provisions to ban or restrict prescription drug advertising included in the Chairman’s mark or offered during the markup. http://www.ana.net/advocacy/content/671 http://www.ana.net/advocacy/content/671 Fri, 25 May 2007 13:49:02 -0400 The Institute of Medicine issued a report yesterday calling on the federal government to take various actions to reduce tobacco use, including major restrictions on advertising. http://www.ana.net/advocacy/content/646 http://www.ana.net/advocacy/content/646 Wed, 16 May 2007 15:23:58 -0400 Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA) has reintroduced his HeLP America Act (S. 1342), which contains a number of provisions that impact advertisers. http://www.ana.net/advocacy/content/641 http://www.ana.net/advocacy/content/641 Tue, 15 May 2007 10:13:21 -0400 FCC Chairman Martin and Commissioners Tate and Copps have responded to House Telecommunications and the Internet Subcomittee Chairman Ed Markey letter urging serious new restrictions on food marketing. http://www.ana.net/advocacy/content/633 http://www.ana.net/advocacy/content/633 Thu, 10 May 2007 00:00:00 -0400 After weeks of negotiations, the Senate yesterday passed the drug safety bill, S.1082, without major new restrictions on direct-to-consumer prescription drug ads. http://www.ana.net/advocacy/content/626 http://www.ana.net/advocacy/content/626 Thu, 26 Apr 2007 12:07:58 -0400 The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) last night released their long awaited report on "Violent Television Programming and Its Impact on Children." http://www.ana.net/advocacy/content/583 http://www.ana.net/advocacy/content/583 Tue, 24 Apr 2007 16:38:49 -0400 We have learned that the Senate leadership is likely to bring up the drug safety bill (S.1082) as early as next Monday. This bill contains provisions that are an enormous threat to the advertising community. http://www.ana.net/advocacy/content/582 http://www.ana.net/advocacy/content/582 Wed, 18 Apr 2007 16:31:49 -0400 Yesterday, the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee held a markup on S. 1082, the Food and Drug Administration Revitalization Act, which contains a two-year moratorum on advertising for prescription drugs and new government-mandated warnings for ads. http://www.ana.net/advocacy/content/534 http://www.ana.net/advocacy/content/534 Tue, 17 Apr 2007 15:47:06 -0400 Two important developments on the children advertising front. http://www.ana.net/advocacy/content/486 http://www.ana.net/advocacy/content/486 Wed, 11 Apr 2007 14:32:21 -0400 The Senate HELP Committee plans to mark up S. 484, the Enhancing Drug Safety and Innovation Act, on Wednesday, April 18. The bill contains three provisions of concern to the advertising industry. http://www.ana.net/advocacy/content/483 http://www.ana.net/advocacy/content/483 Fri, 06 Apr 2007 15:47:18 -0400 ANA is serving on a joint government/industry task force that will be meeting next Friday to discuss potential new initiatives. One of our goals is to develop a comprehensive inventory of the efforts already being made by individual marketers to address childhood obesity. Therefore, we need examples of programs or partnerships that your company has begun to address childhood obesity. http://www.ana.net/advocacy/content/468 http://www.ana.net/advocacy/content/468 Thu, 05 Apr 2007 15:49:35 -0400 On March 23, 2007, the federal court in Utah denied the motion for preliminary injunction in this very important case dealing with a do-not-email registry enacted in 2004. http://www.ana.net/advocacy/content/434 http://www.ana.net/advocacy/content/434 Thu, 15 Mar 2007 00:00:00 -0400 In his "State of the State" speech last week, Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich proposed a new gross receipts tax (GRT) on all business activity in the state. http://www.ana.net/advocacy/content/412 http://www.ana.net/advocacy/content/412 Fri, 02 Mar 2007 00:00:00 -0500 There have been several important developments on the state ad tax front. http://www.ana.net/advocacy/content/396 http://www.ana.net/advocacy/content/396 Wed, 21 Feb 2007 00:00:00 -0500 The marketing community may be facing ad tax battles in the legislatures in Michigan and Iowa. We need your assistance to respond to these threats. http://www.ana.net/advocacy/content/388 http://www.ana.net/advocacy/content/388 Wed, 14 Feb 2007 00:00:00 -0500 Last week, to mark National Consumer Protection Week, the House Energy and Commerce Committee introduced four major privacy bills. The bills deal with data security, spyware, pretexting, and social security number protection. http://www.ana.net/advocacy/content/387 http://www.ana.net/advocacy/content/387 Tue, 06 Feb 2007 00:00:00 -0500 The first month of the new Congress has seen a flurry of legislative activity in the prescription drug advertising area. http://www.ana.net/advocacy/content/386 http://www.ana.net/advocacy/content/386 Wed, 24 Jan 2007 00:00:00 -0500 The Federal Communications Commission announced that the first meeting of its public-private Task Force on 'Media and Childhood Obesity: Today and Tomorrow' will be held on February 14, 2007. http://www.ana.net/advocacy/content/385 http://www.ana.net/advocacy/content/385 Fri, 19 Jan 2007 00:00:00 -0500 Highlights from ANA's Advertising Law and Business Affairs Conference http://www.ana.net/advocacy/content/384 http://www.ana.net/advocacy/content/384 Tue, 16 Jan 2007 00:00:00 -0500 A proposal to extend the sales tax to most business services, including advertising, may soon be introduced in the Michigan Legislature. http://www.ana.net/advocacy/content/383 http://www.ana.net/advocacy/content/383 Mon, 11 Dec 2006 00:00:00 -0500 The staff of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has rejected a call from Commercial Alert for law enforcement actions and guidelines on the practice of "word of mouth" or "buzz" marketing. http://www.ana.net/advocacy/content/382 http://www.ana.net/advocacy/content/382 Mon, 04 Dec 2006 00:00:00 -0500 The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) today released a new report attacking the impact of advertising on America children. http://www.ana.net/advocacy/content/381 http://www.ana.net/advocacy/content/381 Tue, 14 Nov 2006 00:00:00 -0500 We have learned from the trade press that outgoing House Energy and Commerce Chairman Joe Barton (R-TX) plans to make a push to pass three privacy bills in the lame duck session. http://www.ana.net/advocacy/content/380 http://www.ana.net/advocacy/content/380 Fri, 10 Nov 2006 00:00:00 -0500 Dan Jaffe has posted an update to his blog detailing the ramifications of this week's elections on the advertising and marketing industry. http://www.ana.net/advocacy/content/269 http://www.ana.net/advocacy/content/269 Wed, 27 Sep 2006 00:00:00 -0400 Senator Sam Brownback (R-KS), FCC Chairman Kevin Martin and FCC Commissioner Deborah Tate held a press conference today to announce the formation of a joint government/industry task force to examine the impact of media and advertising on children health. http://www.ana.net/advocacy/content/245 http://www.ana.net/advocacy/content/245 Fri, 21 Jul 2006 00:00:00 -0400 Children marketing and interactive commercials during children TV programming have been on the hot seat this week. http://www.ana.net/advocacy/content/235 http://www.ana.net/advocacy/content/235 Tue, 18 Jul 2006 00:00:00 -0400 The Association of National Advertisers (ANA), in a letter to the members of the Senate Commerce Committee stated that, “new media innovations and communications technologies will be strangled or severely damaged by the Senate Commerce Committee reform bill (H.R. 5252, Advanced Telecommunications and Opportunity Reform Act)." http://www.ana.net/advocacy/content/231 http://www.ana.net/advocacy/content/231 Wed, 12 Jul 2006 00:00:00 -0400 The California Court of Appeal has issued an opinion which provides substantial protection for marketers from frivolous class action lawsuits under California’s Unfair Competition Law (UCL). http://www.ana.net/advocacy/content/220 http://www.ana.net/advocacy/content/220 Tue, 20 Jun 2006 00:00:00 -0400 The Association of National Advertisers (ANA) has joined with five other groups in filing a “friend of the court” brief in an important lawsuit challenging the Utah Child Protection Registry Act. http://www.ana.net/advocacy/content/219 http://www.ana.net/advocacy/content/219 Fri, 02 Jun 2006 00:00:00 -0400 We need your assistance in support of an amendment that facilitates the reconstruction of billboards that were damaged or destroyed by last summer’s hurricanes. http://www.ana.net/advocacy/content/198 http://www.ana.net/advocacy/content/198 Fri, 26 May 2006 00:00:00 -0400 ANA has written to members of the Transportation Subcommittee of the House Appropriations Committee in support of an amendment that facilitates the reconstruction of billboards that were damaged or destroyed by last summer's hurricanes. http://www.ana.net/advocacy/content/177 http://www.ana.net/advocacy/content/177 Fri, 19 May 2006 00:00:00 -0400 Texas Governor Rick Perry yesterday signed the new business gross receipts tax bill that was passed during the special session on school finance reform. http://www.ana.net/advocacy/content/179 http://www.ana.net/advocacy/content/179 Mon, 08 May 2006 00:00:00 -0400 Twenty state attorneys general have filed comments with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) in response to its extensive fact-finding proposal into alcohol beverage industry marketing practices. http://www.ana.net/advocacy/content/180 http://www.ana.net/advocacy/content/180 Fri, 21 Apr 2006 00:00:00 -0400 California Senator Liz Figueroa has introduced legislation (Senate Bill 1118) that would impose a tax of an unspecified percentage on television advertising for certain 'foods of poor nutritional quality.' The tax would be imposed on advertising between the hours of 7:00 am to 10:00 pm or during child-specific programming. http://www.ana.net/advocacy/content/197 http://www.ana.net/advocacy/content/197 Fri, 21 Apr 2006 00:00:00 -0400 On Monday, the Texas Legislature began another special session to attempt to resolve school finance issues. One important part of that debate is a proposal by Governor Rick Perry to make significant changes in the state franchise tax in the form of a new gross receipts base. http://www.ana.net/advocacy/content/199 http://www.ana.net/advocacy/content/199 Thu, 20 Apr 2006 00:00:00 -0400 The Association of National Advertisers (ANA) has joined with two other industry groups in filing a "friend of the court" brief in an important lawsuit based on California Unfair Competition Law. http://www.ana.net/advocacy/content/201 http://www.ana.net/advocacy/content/201 Sun, 09 Apr 2006 00:00:00 -0400 ANA filed comments with Dr. Barbara Schneeman, the U.S. delegate to the 34th Session of the Codex Committee on Food Labeling. The Committee will be considering, among other items, whether to include a definition of advertising in the terms of the Codex Guidelines for the Use of Nutrition and Health Claims. http://www.ana.net/advocacy/content/209 http://www.ana.net/advocacy/content/209 Sat, 08 Apr 2006 00:00:00 -0400 The Federal Communications Commission has announced its rules to implement the Junk Fax Prevention Act of 2005. http://www.ana.net/advocacy/content/210 http://www.ana.net/advocacy/content/210 Thu, 30 Mar 2006 00:00:00 -0500 California Senator Carole Migden has introduced legislation in the California Senate that would impose onerous restrictions on alcohol beverage advertising. http://www.ana.net/advocacy/content/211 http://www.ana.net/advocacy/content/211 Mon, 20 Mar 2006 00:00:00 -0500 Texas Governor Rick Perry announced Friday that he would call a special session of the Texas Legislature, to begin on April 17th, to revise the state school finance system. The Texas Supreme Court ruled last year that the current funding system is unconstitutional and set a deadline of June 1st for revising it. http://www.ana.net/advocacy/content/212 http://www.ana.net/advocacy/content/212 Mon, 13 Feb 2006 00:00:00 -0500 The Association of National Advertisers (ANA) will soon be filing a 'friend of the court' brief in support of a lawsuit in federal court which challenges Utah Child Protection Registry Act. http://www.ana.net/advocacy/content/213 http://www.ana.net/advocacy/content/213 Fri, 27 Jan 2006 00:00:00 -0500 New York State Assemblyman Felix Ortiz (D-Brooklyn) has announced that he would make a major push this year for legislation to impose a special sales tax on certain foods and beverages, videos, movie tickets and television advertisign for these products. http://www.ana.net/advocacy/content/214 http://www.ana.net/advocacy/content/214 Fri, 13 Jan 2006 00:00:00 -0500 The Pennsylvania Senate Special Session Committee on Legislation has scheduled another hearing for next Wednesday, January 18th, on Senate Bill 854, the legislation that would tax advertising and many other business services. http://www.ana.net/advocacy/content/215 http://www.ana.net/advocacy/content/215 Tue, 10 Jan 2006 00:00:00 -0500 It is critical for all marketers to immediately contact Pennsylvania Governor Ed Rendell and all of the members of the Pennsylvania General Assembly to express your opposition to a proposal to tax all advertising in the state. http://www.ana.net/advocacy/content/216 http://www.ana.net/advocacy/content/216 Thu, 05 Jan 2006 00:00:00 -0500 On December 20th, on a vote of 103-92, the Pennsylvania House of Representatives passed a property tax relief bill that would broadly extend the sales tax to cover advertising and a number of other business services. http://www.ana.net/advocacy/content/217 http://www.ana.net/advocacy/content/217 Tue, 03 Jan 2006 00:00:00 -0500 The Pennsylvania House of Representatives has passed a property tax relief bill that would broadly expand the current 6% sales tax to cover advertising and a number of other business services.