Under the UK Good Practice Principles, committed businesses will have their advertising misplacement policies and processes verified by an independent third party. In doing so, businesses will receive a seal of compliance that advertisers and agencies look for when buying digital display advertising.
The Principles are endorsed by the UK’s Joint Industry Committee for Web Standards, known as JICWEBS**, and replace the Internet Advertising Sales House (IASH) Code of Conduct. The Principles are supported by leading advertising businesses*** and further operators are expected to join the initiative as it moves forward.
The Principles also supersede the IPA’s and ISBA’s own principles published earlier this year. Businesses committed to the IPA – ISBA principles will be carried across to the DTSG’s initiative and their independent verifications will remain valid.
IAB’s Director of Regulatory Affairs, Nick Stringer said: “The DTSG’s Good Practice Principles represent a major step forward for the whole industry to help minimise the risk of ad misplacement in a complex market. They will give marketers greater confidence to continue to invest in digital and the IAB encourages all relevant ad trading businesses to participate.”
AOP’s Head of Research and Insight, Tim Cain stated: “As an organisation representing publishers who are committed to creating quality content environments online, AOP supports this initiative to ensure better brand safety for agencies and advertisers.”
ISBA’s Marketing Services Manager, David Ellison, said: “Brands rightly need greater reassurances against the significant risk to their reputation of online ad misplacement. The complex digital landscape we operate in demanded a joined-up approach from industry, which is precisely what these principles represent.”
IPA’s Head of Digital, Nigel Gwilliam said: “Misplaced advertising affects the whole online industry, so it is only right that we are addressing this from a cross-industry standpoint. These principles will increase the transparency, accountability, trust and safety that our advertisers and agencies so rightly deserve when placing ads online. Any business keen to demonstrate its responsibility and commitment to brand safety has nothing to lose by signing up to them, and everything to gain.”
*About the Digital Trading Standards Group (DTSG)
The DTSG comprises representatives from the following sectors of the digital display trading ecosystem: advertisers, agencies, agency trading desks (ATDs), demand side platforms (DSPs), advertising networks, sales houses, advertising exchanges, supply side platforms (SSPs) and publishers.
**About JICWEBS
JICWEBS is the UK’s Joint Industry Committee for Web Standards and is made up of the following trade bodies: Association of Online Publishers (AOP), Internet Advertising Bureau (IAB), Newspaper Society, Newspapers Publishers Association, ISBA – the voice of advertisers and the Institute of Practitioners in Advertising (IPA). www.jicwebs.org/
***Signatories to the DTSG Good Practice Principles are:
AD2ONE, AdapTV, Adconion Media Group, Adfonic, Adpepper, AMNET, AppNexus, Crimtan, Collective, Exchange Lab, Exponential, 4th Screen, Fox Networks, Google DoubleClick Ad Exchange, IgnitionOne, Improve Digital, InSkin Media, Media iQ Digital, Microsoft, Millennial Media, Perform Group, Quantcast, RadiumOne, RocketFuel, Specific Media, StrikeAd, Tremor Video, TubeMogul, Unanimis, Unruly Media, ValueClick Media, Vibrant Media, Videology, Weather Channel Global Media, WeSEE, Yahoo UK , YOC.
