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Guidelines & Best Practice
The advertising industry is largely self-regulated through codes of conduct.
Below is a selection of resources you may find useful or interesting if you're keen to learn more.
The Australian Digital Advertising Practices have been created specifically for advertisers in Australia to facilitate better relationships with agencies, publishers and digital platforms, and to foster shared responsibilities for digital ad spends and outcomes.
The VAST (Video Ad Serving Template) 4.0 specification was released in January 2016, but hasn’t seen widespread adoption. Some recent updates point to an opportunity for successful pickup of the standard.
In this paper we lay out the reasons for this current state, and call on the industry to adopt the proposed changes.
Creative has always been a key part of traditional advertising, ensuring the message receives cut through in print, TV and radio advertisements. But the same can’t be said in the history of digital, with creative sometimes being secondary to reach, frequency and targeting. On this page we have rounded up all of our latest creative resources, designed to fully embrace digital advertising in all shapes, sizes and formats.
The IAB Australia Display Creative and Mobile Creative Guidelines have now been updated from the initial version released in October 2016 and more fully embrace HTML5 technology as the new standard for ad creatives.
These creative updates are the result of testing diverse HTML5 ad creatives for load performance and user experience to determine the optimum specifications for allowed file sizes and other HTML5 considerations.
The podcasting advertising market in Australia has grown significantly since the IAB Australia Audio Council endorsed the first US IAB podcasting technical measurement guidelines in 2016. Nearly half of media agencies indicated that they have used podcasting for clients in the 2017 IAB Australia Audio Advertising State of the Nation study.
Page Views have been a key metric in digital ratings systems since the mid-1990s and have historically been an important volume indicator when comparing sites and publishers.
The IAB Australia Audio Council is currently reviewing Version 2 of the IAB US IAB Podcast Measurement Technical Guidelines released in late December 2017 and assessing suitability for endorsement in the Australian market. The previous version of the Guidelines was endorsed by IAB Australia in November 2016.
Technology is essential to the proper functioning of digital advertising, but it is only a tool. It can’t single-handedly ensure effectiveness. To optimise your technology investments, your company must ask the right questions about the technology you are about to purchase. And in asking those questions, there is no template for today’s data-driven scenarios we are planning for, so transparency and knowledge sharing are a must. For that purpose, IAB Australia has created these guidelines.
From 22 February 2018, the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth) will include a mandatory data breach notification scheme. This means you will have to alert authorities and all affected individuals about any ‘eligible data breach’ which takes place in your company.
The aim of this playbook is to give the industry simplified and consistent definitions to help increase awareness of the potential of native, as well as inspire marketers and agencies to invest in native as an effective communication approach.
