Ethical Marketing: Resources
ANA's Center for Ethical Marketing aims to aid businesses "build brand and consumer trust through best practices, guidelines, guidance, compliance services, and committees. The Center seeks to educate, elevate, and advance accountability for the industry and mediate consumer complaints." Below are some helpful and timely resources to guide marketers.
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Ethical Practices Build Consumer Trust – ANA Semi-Annual Ethics Compliance Report Published
Ethics Issue Alerts August 19, 2024The ANA Center for Ethical Marketing is dedicated to advancing ethics and accountability for our members and the industry while safeguarding advertising and marketing freedoms. Our comprehensive self-regulatory enforcement program offers education, tools and compliance services for ethical marketers and consumers. Key offerings include DMAchoice, ANA DPF Dispute Resolution and the Digital Advertising Alliance (DAA).
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ANA New Marketing Ethics Code Essential to Consumer Trust
Ethics Issue Alerts August 8, 2024To promote a common set of rigorous standards and solutions for ethical marketing, the Association of National Advertisers (ANA) developed a new comprehensive marketing ethics framework, the ANA’s “Ethics Code of Marketing Best Practices.”
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AI Marketing and Ethics Issues: Bias, Privacy, Transparency, and More
ASK Answers July 17, 2024What ethical risks and issues come along with using AI (Artificial Intelligence) in marketing?
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Honoring Consumers’ Marketing Preferences: The Right Thing to Do
Ethics Issue Alerts June 25, 2024The ANA Center for Ethical Marketing is committed to advancing an ethical marketing ecosystem. Our mission is clear: to promote accountability, protect advertising and marketing freedoms, and build consumer trust. This ethics alert focuses on the need for companies and organizations to instill consumer trust and meet the consumers where they are by honoring their marketing preferences.
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The Evolution of Digital Marketing in the Era of AI
Leading Edge June 17, 2024As concerns over data security and consumer privacy continue to grow, marketers are confronted with a unique challenge: how to engage audiences effectively while respecting their privacy and remaining in compliance with regulatory legislation across geographies.
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Text Marketing: Highly Regulated and Needs Permission
Ethics Issue Alerts April 23, 2024Consumers are likely to believe that the texts received are legitimate and from a trusted source. Unfortunately, consumers have been inundated with so-called unwanted “robocalls” and “robotexts” over many years.
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A Better, More Transparent Way Forward with Social Media
Leading Edge February 26, 2024Facebook, Instagram, and the other traditional social media giants are past the apex of their popularity. To move forward effectively, marketers need to understand how we ended up here, and what people are seeking from their digital lives in 2024.
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How to Use AI Responsibly in Marketing
B2C February 23, 2024Experimenting with generative AI should be controlled and guided by clear and transparent policies, which are sorely lacking. Only 22 percent of companies have generative AI policies, and only 21 percent have an AI ethics policy or responsible AI principles, according to a recent survey.
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Ethical and Legal Considerations of AI
Event Recaps February 14, 2024The ANA’s Chris Oswald discussed the ethical and legal aspects that revolve around artificial intelligence, and what to consider when applying the technology into content and business processes.
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Ethical Practices Advance Growth — 2023 ANA Compliance Report Published
Ethics Issue Alerts January 24, 2024The ANA's latest report on ethics compliance reviews the types of consumer marketing ethical inquiries involving direct and digital advertising, including privacy, that were processed by our ethics team and Committees in 2023.
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ANA Center for Ethical Marketing Update
Event Recaps January 11, 2024In this session, get an update on a range of things ANA is working on in the ethics space including an Ethics Code, which covers how to ethically market in 2024; DMAchoice, ANA’s data hygiene tool; and ANA’s cross-border compliance mediation service, ANA DPF Dispute Resolution.
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Using Testimonials, Endorsements, and Consumer Reviews in Marketing
Ethics Issue Alerts January 5, 2024Self-regulation and ethical marketing are at the core of building consumer trust and loyalty. This ethics update series focuses on key consumer marketing issues to highlight the ethical standards of applicability and to assure best practices are communicated and followed.
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The No Fakes Act and the Right of Publicity in the Age of Generative AI
Leading Edge December 15, 2023The generative AI market is growing rapidly and is estimated to increase from $40 billion to $1.3 trillion by 2032. Generative AI refers to artificial intelligence that learns the patterns of content created by people and uses that information to create new content, such as music and videos. Generative AI is touted to boost efficiency, improve customization, and expand creative expression.
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Why 'Be Better' Is Not a Strategy
Partner Content December 14, 2023Nancy Smith of Analytic Partners shares her perspective on the challenges marketing leaders face with the speed of change, how new innovations influence consumer behavior, and how brands can leverage AI as a potential solution.
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IRG Impact Study Findings: Driving More Humanized Growth
CMO Content December 9, 2023In 2023, the Global CMO Growth undertook an important research initiative with Oxford University and the Institute for Real Growth to help elevate how the business community understands and values marketing, brand building, and creativity in driving growth.
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The Ethical Risks of Generative Artificial Intelligence
B2C October 11, 2023Intellectual property and copyright concerns are among the thornier issues that marketers and agencies are grappling with as generative artificial intelligence (AI) becomes a force in the ad business. Procurement can play a key role asking vendors about their technology capabilities and how those technologies or models were trained. At the same time, marketers should be encouraged that some generative AI vendors are providing assurances that their products are free of copyright concerns.
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AI Marketing and Ethics Issues: Bias, Privacy, Transparency, and More
ASK Answers August 23, 2023What ethical risks and issues come along with using AI (Artificial Intelligence) in marketing?
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ANA Ethics Compliance Report, January — June 2023
Ethics Issue Alerts August 22, 2023The ANA recently released the latest edition of its Ethics Compliance Report, covering January through June of 2023.
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New Data Privacy Framework Launched for Global Marketers and Data Providers
Ethics Issue Alerts August 3, 2023Global marketers and data providers are celebrating with the announcement and launch of a new EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework (DPF) to replace the former Privacy Shield, which was invalidated by European courts in 2020. Small and mid-sized companies were significantly impacted by this decision since Privacy Shield was the most affordable and accessible option for companies to comply with the adequacy requirements for transferring data from the EU to the United States.
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A New Era for Data Privacy
Social Impact July 24, 2023Nonprofit organizations must comply with patchwork state data privacy laws and adapt their fundraising strategies for a privacy-first world. Experts share how to navigate this increasingly complex legal landscape.
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