Regulatory Rumblings
A Tangled Web
Posted: Mar 22, 2021 12:45pm ETThis year already has been an ominous one on the tax front for advertisers. Digital advertising taxes have proliferated. At least eight states are presently considering adopting a digital or general ad tax law.
READ MOREYet Another Privacy Bill
Posted: Feb 17, 2021 10:45am ETANA and other leading advertising industry associations have submitted a letter to the leadership of the Hawaii Legislature to oppose HI SB 1009, a sweeping and highly restrictive privacy proposal.
READ MOREA Toxic Tax
Posted: Feb 9, 2021 10:00am ETLast May, Maryland Governor Hogan vetoed HB 732 (The Digital Advertising Gross Revenue Tax) which would have imposed a levy of up to 10 percent on digital advertising in the state. Unfortunately, Maryland’s legislative leadership is signaling an attempt to overturn the governor’s veto in the near future.
READ MOREPrivacy Battlefield Continues to Grow
Posted: Jan 26, 2021 11:50am ETYesterday ANA, along with the 4A’s, AAF, IAB, and NAI, sent a letter to North Dakota legislators urging them to fix numerous problems with HB 1330, a proposed data privacy bill.
READ MOREBreach Bumps Privacy Up on the Agenda
Posted: Dec 21, 2020 11:00am ETVirtually everyone in the business community has anticipated that privacy and data security would be extremely important issues in 2021 at the Federal, state, and local levels, and in the regulatory arenas.
READ MOREMoney Can’t Buy You Love: The New Normal?
Posted: Dec 9, 2020 11:00am ETIn a blog earlier this year, I argued that 2020 political races during Covid-19 were going to be more dependent on advertising than ever.
READ MOREApple CNAME Changes Mark Latest Challenge Confronting Digital Advertising
Posted: Dec 3, 2020 9:20am ETOver the past three years, a perfect storm of developments has forced our industry to operationalize several novel and evolving regulatory requirements, as well as adapt to brand new market realities that deviate sharply from the digital advertising status quo of the last decade.
READ MOREAn Uncivil War
Posted: Dec 1, 2020 10:00am ETWhile the rubble and the dust generated by the last election have far from settled, there are some important implications that already can be discerned.
READ MOREAd Industry Submits Comments to California AG on CCPA
Posted: Oct 29, 2020 1:50pm ETYesterday, the advertising industry’s leading associations submitted comments to the California Office of the Attorney General regarding their third set of proposed modifications to the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA).
READ MORECan Digital Media Continue to Thrive?
Posted: Sep 24, 2020 10:00am ETThe internet and advertising were made for each other. In fact, in many ways advertising provided the crucial support for the internet and mobile’s unprecedented growth through the infusion of the massive revenue it generated.
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