Inside the Hill

17 Jan 2012

SOPA and PIPA Opponents Plan for Day of Protest

Blog, Inside the Hill No Comments

  Happy new year, everyone! Well, 2012 is starting out with a slew of government marketing news, but today we’ll focus on the impending online blackout to protest the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and Protect IP Act (PIPA) proposed by the House and Senate respectively. SOPA is a House Bill proposing to allow the [...]

06 Dec 2011

Senate Calls Hearing on ICANN’s Domain Expansion Plan

Blog, Inside the Hill No Comments

  If you subscribe to the AAF Government Affairs newsletter, you probably saw in last week’s issue that the Senate Commerce Committee will hold a hearing on Thursday, December 8, on Internet Corporations for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN)’s plan to expand the amount of new top level domains. All summer long, ICANN has been [...]

06 Nov 2011

FCC Plans to Make Political Advertisement Disclosure Available Online

Blog, Inside the Hill No Comments

Well, it’s been awhile since our last post, but let’s take this time to catch-up on what’s big in politics and advertising. With 2012 being a big election year, spending on political ads are already predicted to reach record highs during this upcoming campaign cycle. After seeing and hearing candidates attack each other for months, [...]

13 Sep 2011

Crisis Communications – Lessons Learned from 9/11

Blog, Inside the Hill No Comments

Seems like job creation, the deficit, and federal spending were the only things on Congress’ mind this past week. Although there was minimal advertising news on the Hill, what was big the media was the 10 year anniversary for September 11th. We can definitely learn some crisis communication tips from the Department of Homeland Security [...]

06 Sep 2011

Recess is over!

Inside the Hill No Comments

Welcome to the inaugural post of Inside the Hill Tuesday. Ad 2 DC’s Government Relations committee will be blogging weekly to ensure everyone is up to date on government news affecting our industry. Well, Congress returned from its recess today. This past month has been a bit quiet in terms of legislative news, but the [...]