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Online advertising regulation - tackling harmful content, the Online Advertising Programme, and ensuring regulation reflects the evolving digital market

November 2021


Price: £95 PLUS VAT
Format: DOWNLOADABLE PDF


***online full-scale policy conference ***
This conference was a timely opportunity to examine the Government’s Online Advertising Programme - which is considering the current framework for regulating online advertising and fraudulent, misleading, or harmful content - as well as priorities for ongoing work to ensure the regulation of online advertising is reflective of the evolving digital market.


We were delighted to be able to include keynote addresses from:


  • Dr Nicola Mazzarotto, Global Head of Economics, KPMG
  • Guy Parker, Chief Executive Officer, Advertising Standards Authority
  • Jon Riley, Director, Consumer Protection, Competition and Markets Authority
  • Ruth Wye, Head of Online Advertising Programme, Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport

Attendees


Our forums are known for attracting strong interest from policymakers and stakeholders. Places were reserved by officials from BEIS; the Cabinet Office; the Competition and Markets Authority; the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport; the Department of Health and Social Care; the Information Commissioner's Office; Ofcom; and the Office for Product Safety and Standards. Also due to attend are representatives from A+E Networks; Advertising Standards Authority (ASA); Airbnb UK; Alcohol Focus Scotland; Amazon UK; Analysys Mason; Arqiva; Bates Wells Braithwaite London; BBC; Better Collective; BGL Group; BPI; BT; Burges Salmon; CAP; Carnegie UK; CMS Cameron McKenna Nabarro Olswang; Discovery; dmgmedia; Frontier Economics; Fundraising Regulator; Google; Gumtree.com; Herbert Smith Freehills; IOP Publishing; ISBA; Lewis Silkin; Macmillan Cancer Support; Motors.co.uk; Omnicom Media Group UK; Pinsent Masons; Reynolds Porter Chamberlain; Russells Solicitors; Sony Interactive Entertainment Europe; TikTok; UK Finance; and University of Essex.


Press passes were reserved by representatives from TechCrunch and The Complaining Cow.


This was an online full-scale conference***


  • full, four-hour programme including comfort breaks - you’ll also get a full recording and transcript to refer back to
  • information-rich discussion involving key policymakers and stakeholders
  • conference materials provided in advance, including speaker biographies
  • speakers presenting via webcam, accompanied by slides if they wish, using the Cisco WebEx professional online conference platform (easy for delegates - we’ll provide full details)
  • opportunities for live delegate questions and comments with all speakers
  • a recording of the addresses, all slides cleared by speakers, and further materials are made available to all delegates afterwards as a permanent record of the proceedings
  • delegates are able to add their own written comments and articles following the conference, to be distributed to all attendees and more widely
  • networking too - there will be opportunities for delegates to e-meet and interact - we’ll tell you how!


This pack includes

  • Dropbox video recording of the conference
  • PDF transcript of the discussion, including all speaker remarks and Q&A
  • PDFs of speakers' slide material (subject to permission)
  • PDFs of the delegate pack, including speaker biographies and attendee list
  • PDFs of delegate articles