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The Wall Street Journal: Big Marketers Launch Audits of Their Ad Buyers

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J.P. Morgan Chase Chief Marketing Officer Kristin Lemkau joined a meeting in May of some 25 marketing executives at Manhattan’s Millennium Broadway Hotel to hear a confidential presentation on the disturbing state of the advertising business.

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AdAge: Dentsu Notifies Client Toyota of ‘Irregularities’ Around Media Transactions in Japan

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Toyota says its longtime advertising partner, Japanese agency giant Dentsu Inc., has informed it of “irregularities” related to some digital media business transactions. Reports have said the problem was about a division of Dentsu in Japan overcharging the automaker.

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AdAge: ANA Applauds Dentsu, Calls Major Marketers’ Audits ‘Appropriate’

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When Dentsu Inc. proactively informed longtime client Toyota of “irregularities” related to some digital media business transactions this week, the Association of National Advertisers applauded.

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AdExchanger: The 4As Is Cracking Down On Transparency, On Its Own Terms

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Agencies that don’t comply with the American Association of Advertising Agencies’ (4As) Transparency Guiding Principles of Conduct (TGPC) will risk losing their memberships.

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MarketingDIVE: 4A’s threatens to expel agencies that violate new transparency standards

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The American Association of Advertising Agencies, or the 4A’s, is elevating its best practices around media buying and planning from a recommendation to a mandate for its members, with willful violators facing possible annulment of their membership, the group said in a blog post.

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The Drum: 4A’s president Nancy Hill cancels scheduled Advertising Week appearance

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Nancy Hill, president of 4A’s, has cancelled a scheduled ‘Trust panel’ appearance at Advertising Week in a move which is being interpreted as a sign of an ongoing dispute between agency groups.

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More About Advertising: ANA dispute with agencies worsens as 4A’s goes it alone

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The American 4A’s agency trade body is still at loggerheads with the Association of National Advertisers (ANA), pulling out of an ANA panel on ‘transparency’ at Advertising Week in New York next week, preferring to do its own thing at the chat fest.

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Campaign US: 4A’s doubles down on adland’s transparency issues

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Ahead of Advertising Week next week, the 4A’s has announced two new initiatives around an issue that continues to plague the advertising industry—transparency.

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AdAdge: 4A’s Won’t Participate in ‘Trust Panel’ With ANA at Advertising Week

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4A’s President-CEO Nancy Hill is no longer scheduled to speak during Advertising Week in New York next week during a session called “Trust Forum: Transparency,” along with members of the Association of National Advertisers. It’s the latest sign that the rift between the agency groups is far from healing.

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