{"id":1516,"date":"2016-09-19T14:46:52","date_gmt":"2016-09-19T14:46:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.searchenginewatch.com\/2016\/09\/19\/coalition-for-better-ads-to-make-digital-ads-great-again\/"},"modified":"2018-11-15T17:07:54","modified_gmt":"2018-11-15T17:07:54","slug":"coalition-for-better-ads-to-make-digital-ads-great-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/searchenginewatch.com\/2016\/09\/19\/coalition-for-better-ads-to-make-digital-ads-great-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Coalition for Better Ads to make digital ads great again"},"content":{"rendered":"

A new organization, The Coalition for Better Ads, has been launched to “leverage<\/a> consumer insights and cross-industry expertise to develop and implement new global standards for online advertising that address consumer expectations.”<\/strong><\/p>\n

Supported by founding members like Google, Facebook, Unilever,\u00a0Procter & Gamble, GroupM and the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB), the new organization represents the latest effort of players in the\u00a0online advertising industry to cope with soaring ad blocker usage<\/a>.<\/p>\n

According to Randall Rothenberg, the president and CEO of the IAB:<\/p>\n

Advertising funds the diversity of information, entertainment, and services on the free Internet, but that doesn\u2019t give business a license to abuse the good will of consumers. It is essential that industry create standards to assure that consumers get safe, fast, secure delivery of the sites and services they love.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The IAB has already launched an initiative, LEAN, that aims to promote digital ads that\u00a0light, encrypted, ad choice supported, and non-invasive, and a set of DEAL\u00a0recommendations<\/a> that publishers can follow\u00a0to address ad blocking.<\/p>\n

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The Coalition for Better Ads looks to bring together a\u00a0broader\u00a0consortium of ad industry players to identify new standards that can\u00a0improve the digital ad experience, implement the technologies needed for these standards, and promote the standards so that they’re put into use.<\/p>\n

The Coalition will work with the IAB’s\u00a0Tech Lab, which is already involved in implementing\u00a0technical standards for the online ad industry, so it appears possible that some of the early work of The\u00a0Coalition for Better Ads will build off of the IAB’s existing work, such as the LEAN initiative, which includes plans for ad scoring technology<\/a> that can be used to\u00a0determine whether ads meet the target user experience standards.<\/p>\n

Is the industry too late?<\/h2>\n

While research shows that most consumers are not opposed to online advertising on principle, the continued growth of ad blockers reflects the fact that large numbers of consumers are simply fed up with the bad apples and would rather block all ads by default.<\/p>\n

Absent broad change that can protect consumers from the bad apples, it seems unlikely that ad blockers are going away. And now that one of the most popular\u00a0ad blockers is getting into the ad business with the launch of an RTB platform<\/a>,\u00a0the situation is becoming more complex, which could make it more difficult for organizations like the IAB and\u00a0The Coalition for Better Ads to effect broad change.<\/p>\n

The good news is that the industry isn’t helpless. Consumers are<\/em> willing to disable their ad blockers when asked<\/a>\u00a0under the right circumstances, so while they wait\u00a0for the industry-wide solutions The Coalition for Better Ads aims to deliver, publishers can fight back by producing high-value content and taking responsibility for the\u00a0ads that they serve.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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