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06 Apr 2012

Apr. 11 – An Evening with Rock the Vote

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Upcoming Government Relations Event – An Evening with Rock the Vote // April 11 The Government Relations committee has been busy planning our upcoming program for Ad 2 DC, so sorry if our blog has been quiet. Anyway, as you all know, it’s a big election year so we understand that a lot of our [...]

28 Feb 2012

AAF Webinar on DAA Self-Regulatory Program and Online Privacy

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  The White House, Department of Commerce and Federal Trade Commission (FTC) recently endorsed the Digital Advertising Alliance (DAA) self-regulatory program for online interest based advertising. This program ensures that consumers will have a consistent online experience with transparency and choice regarding the collection and use of web viewing data. This initiative was developed by [...]

17 Jan 2012

SOPA and PIPA Opponents Plan for Day of Protest

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  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

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  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

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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

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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!

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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 [...]