Is that Santa App Safe? Children’s Ad Watchdog Says ‘Check it Twice’
Dear Readers, COPPA is not one of Santa’s eight tiny reindeer.
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NAD/CARU/NARB Procedures Revised, Effective 11.1.15
NAD/CARU/NARB Procedures have been revised and changes are effective Nov. 1, 2015.
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CARU: A Parent’s Guide to Advertising
Children’s Advertising Review Unit and Toy Industry Association Collaborate to Produce A Parent’s Guide to Advertising and Your Child Free Resource Has Been Updated to Include New Information About Online and Mobile Ads NEW YORK, NY | September 30, 2015 – The Children’s...
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Online Interest-Based Advertising Accountability Program
The Online Interest-Based Advertising Accountability Program regulates behavioral advertising across the Internet. Leading industry associations developed seven principles which businesses are required to follow.
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National Advertising
With the founding of National Advertising Division and National Advertising Review Board in 1971, the advertising industry pioneered the use of independent, transparent oversight to assure that advertising claims in all media are truthful and substantiated.
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Electronic Direct-Response Advertising
The Electronic Retailing Self-Regulation Program provides a quick and effective mechanism for evaluating, investigating, analyzing and resolving inquiries regarding the truthfulness and accuracy of the primary or core efficacy or performance claims that are communicated in national direct response advertising.
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Advertising to Children
CARU's basic activities are the review and evaluation of child-directed advertising in all media, and online privacy practices as they affect children. When these are found to be misleading, inaccurate, or inconsistent with CARU's guidelines, CARU seeks change through the voluntary cooperation of advertisers.
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ASRC Online Archive
The ASRC Online Archive is available by subscription. The Archive includes NAD/CARU/ERSP case reports, as well as NARB panel reports.
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Supporting Self-Regulation
Advertising industry self-regulation is a service of the advertising industry and the Council of Better Business Bureaus. The Advertising Self-Regulatory Council establishes the policies and procedures for the National Advertising Division (NAD) of the Council of Better...
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A service of the advertising industry and the Council of Better Business Bureaus
ASRC Snapshot
The Advertising Self-Regulatory Council (ASRC) establishes the policies and procedures for advertising industry self-regulation, including the National Advertising Division (NAD), Children’s Advertising Review Unit (CARU), National Advertising Review Board (NARB), Electronic Retailing Self-Regulation Program (ERSP) and Online Interest-Based Advertising Accountability Program (Accountability Program.) The self-regulatory system is administered by the Council of Better Business Bureaus.
Online Archive
ASRC Online Archive Search Quick Reference Guide
The Online Archive is available by subscription. The Archive includes NAD/CARU/ERSP case reports, as well as NARB panel reports.
This exclusive resource, critical to the advertising industry, is available by subscription.
ASRC Digests
ASRC Digests feature short summaries of key cases in several industries or topic areas. To access the full text of decisions of the National Advertising Division (NAD), National Advertising Review Board (NARB), Children’s Advertising Review Unit (CARU) and Electronic Retailing Self-Regulation Program, please contact Rey Persaud, rpersaud <at> asrc.bbb.org. The full text of decisions issued by the Online Interest-Based Accountability Program are available above, at the Accountability Program tab.
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