Our guidelines are designed to help the Canadian marketing community realize maximum efficiency & effectiveness in order to drive business results.
Canada’s Anti-Spam Legislation (“CASL”) applies when organizations (1) send commercial electronic messages, and (ii) install computer programs on another person’s computer system. Sending Commercial Electronic Messages Subject to limited exceptions, CASL requires consent (either express or implied) for the sending…
Read MoreThere are four private sector privacy statutes in Canada: Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA) Personal Information Protection Act (Alberta) Personal Information Protection Act (British Columbia) An Act Respecting the Protection of Personal Information in the Private Sector…
Read MoreIAB Canada assembled a small task force in late 2014 to discuss the issues, and possible solutions, for dealing with non-human traffic within the digital advertising ecosystem. The task force was comprised of Andrew Casale (Index Exchange), Matt Thornton (Google),…
Read MoreIn January and February 2015, IAB Canada hosted an exclusive webinar series discussing the power of HTML5 in the new ad landscape. Hosts Paul Vincent (Neuranet) and Jeffrey Martin (Addictive Mobility) guided listeners through the transition phase from an ad…
Read MoreThere are four elements every marketer should be asking of their agencies to ensure their digital advertising shows up successfully across all screens. 1. Make sure that your media agency buys mobile impressions on smartphones and tablets. For your media…
Read MoreAdvertisers expect that all online content is delivered to human audiences. But an alarming portion of digital advertising is being diverted by nefarious entities that exploit the ecosystem to deliver fraudulent traffic. The potential for fraud exists anywhere that media…
Read MoreIAB Canada’s Pay-For-Performance Ad Campaign Guidelines are designed to help Publishers, Ad Networks, Advertisers and Agencies maximize success when conducting direct response campaigns across the web. Designed to be used in situations where the goal is to elicit a specific…
Read MoreIAB Canada supports many IAB U.S. Guidelines and Standards. We encourage our members to familiarize themselves with, and to follow, these initiatives: Mobile & HTML5 Guidelines: Mobile Application Advertising Measurement Guidelines Mobile Web Advertising Measurement Guidelines HTML5 Digital Advertising Guidance…
Read MoreIAB Canada is proud to offer the digital advertising industry a standard set of Terms & Conditions that can be used when booking a campaign. Each year a task force of IAB Canada members assemble to review the current document…
Read MoreThe Self-Regulatory Program for Online Behavioural Advertising is designed to give consumers a better understanding of, as well as greater control over, the ads that are displayed to them based on their online behaviour (also called “behavioural”, “interest-based” advertising, or…
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