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AdAge: ANA Issues Long-Awaited Agency-Client Transparency Guidelines

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The Association of National Advertisers is calling for marketers to diminish “non-disclosed agency activities” in long-awaited transparency guidelines prepared on its behalf by auditor Ebiquity.

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Digiday: ANA Publishes New Guidelines on Agency Transparency; Ad Execs Shrug

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A month after publishing a scathing report outlining transparency shortcomings in the advertising industry, the Association of National Advertisers has released a new set of transparency guidelines for agencies. The new guidelines were largely greeted by agency executives with a collective shrug.

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AdExchanger: ANA Drops Second Rebate Report, With To-Do List For Brands

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The Association of National Advertisers’ crusade for greater agency transparency entered phase two on Monday, when marketing analytics firm Ebiquity and its subsidiary, FirmDecisions, released an anticipated set of guidelines for advertisers on how to maintain transparent relationships with their agencies.

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MediaPost: ANA Releases ‘Transparency’ Guidelines, Contract Template Too – Calls For ‘Chief Media Officer’ Role

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Advertisers should require their agencies to disclose “all potential conflicts of interest” and comply with thorough audits covering the agency, its parent company, affiliates and subsidiaries to ensure full transparency. That’s the core recommendation made as part of a series of “Guidelines for Achieving Media Transparency,” released today by the Association of National Advertisers.

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WSJ: Advertisers Should Reexamine Agency Relationships, ANA Says

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The Association of National Advertisers has recommended advertisers make substantial changes to their relationships with advertising agencies, after an ANA probe found that rebates and other nontransparent practices are “pervasive” in the U.S.

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Business Insider: In the Wake of the Report into Non-Transparent Ad Agency Rebates, WPP is Redrafting its Media Contracts

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WPP’s media buying arm, GroupM, has been revising the majority of its contracts with UK-based media owners, in an apparent attempt to shore up any transparency concerns.

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AdExchanger: Broken Trust – Can Agencies Regain Credibility?

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The Association of National Advertisers’ recent report on transparency highlights a range of problems, such as publisher kickbacks, inventory credits and other shady practices.

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Campaign: The Ad Industry Must Start Talking to End Crisis of Trust

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Both sides are to blame. Marketers want more for less and their procurement departments have been squeezing media agencies’ margins for years. At the same time, agencies have turned to less transparent ways to make money such as rebates and acting as principal.

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MediaPost: The ANA Study On Ad Transparency Is Spot-On – Now What?

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The recent study of media transparency conducted by K2 Intelligence on behalf of the Association of National Advertisers (ANA) opened a closet door exposing a ton of skeletons in the digital ad buying world. The study concluded that agency rebates and management fee double-dipping were pervasive, and was especially damning to the approach most agencies take to programmatic ad buying.

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MediaPost: Creating Distraction From The Real Media Transparency Issues

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Ebiquity’s subsidiary Firm Decisions has been summoned into court by Group M, WPP’s media buying agency. And WPP CEO Martin Sorrell argues that Ebiquity, the media auditor working with the Association of National Advertisers (ANA) and K2 Intelligence on the U.S. media transparency report, is ”heavily conflicted” because its subsidiary, FirmDecisions “audits whether agencies have complied with their contracts with advertisers while other parts of the business manage pitches for clients, advise them how to ‘secure better prices’ and audit media spend,” according to Gideon Spanier, writing on US Campaign.

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