The ePrivacy Industry Letter to Ministers on behalf of the associations EMMA (European Magazine Media Association), ENPA (European Newspaper Publishers’ Association), EPC (European Publishers’ Council), NME (News Media Europe), AIG (Advertising Information Group), AMC (Audience Measurement Coalition), FEDMA (Federation of European Direct and Interactive Marketing), AER (Association of European Radios), EGTA (European Group of Television Advertising), GESTE (Les editeurs de contenus et services en ligne) and SPIR (The Association for Internet Progress).

European associations and companies, share the European Commission's view that privacy, data security and a responsible approach to data handling are a necessary condition for the development of breakthrough technologies such as artificial intelligence, but also a competitive advantage and added value that European companies can offer.

Members of SPIR deeply support the European way of live and European values, ensuring the privacy of internet users. However, the current ePrivacy proposal has generated great uncertainty across all of us, whose effort to comply with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) risks being nullified by an incoherent ePrivacy text.

The European Commission released Communication ‘Data protection rules as a trust-enabler in the EU and beyond – taking stock’.

In 2018 the volume of internet advertising exceeded CZK 28 billion. Compared to 2017, this represents growth of 23 per cent caused, in absolute figures, primarily by display advertising (+23 %) and search advertising (+25 %).

IAB Europe has published its ‘Blockchain Demystified’ White Paper to shed light on a topic that despite its potential to revolutionise the digital advertising industry, is still largely shrouded in mystery and misconception.

It is regrettable that Johnny Ryan’s ongoing PR campaign against the digital advertising industry and in particular his unfounded and inaccurate accusations against IAB Europe are becoming ever more desperate.

As part of the AdMonitoring project, the newly added category accurately describes volume of programmatically traded online advertising, which have been growing steadily in recent years. The originally dominant category of directly traded display ads decreases in line with the growing volume of programmatic. In January 2019, the volume of programmatically purchased advertising space already exceeded the volume of display traded directly.

Joint letter of European associations and companies to EU representatives and national governments on the draft proposal on dissemination of terrorist content online.