Online advertisers sign up to better standards as ad-blocking increases
A coalition made up of advertisers, Google and Facebook, and news publishers urges the industry to stop using annoying online marketing formats
Brussels/Frankfurt — A broad coalition of advertising trade groups, ad buyers and sellers from Western Europe and the US have urged the industry to stop using annoying online marketing formats that have fuelled the rapid rise of ad-blockers. The types of ads the coalition have identified as falling below standard include pop-up advertisements, auto-play video ads with sound, flashing animated ads, and full-screen ads that mask underlying content from readers or viewers. The explosion of ad-blocking tools has launched a prolonged debate within the advertising industry over whether to rein in abusive ad practices or simply freeze out consumers who use ad-blockers and still expect access to premium content. The Coalition for Better Ads said on Wednesday that it was publishing the voluntary standards after a study in which more than 25,000 web surfers and mobile phone users rated ads. They identified six types of desktop web ads and 12 types of mobile ads as falling beneath a threshold ...
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