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Follow the Money. The quest to reduce IP infringement. October 4, 2013. The Problem. The Ad Industry's Problem: Our clients ads are supporting online piracy It is bad for our client’s brands It is bad for content owners Its bad for the industry Confirms “wild west” fears
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Follow the Money The quest to reduce IP infringement October 4, 2013
The Problem • The Ad Industry's Problem: • Our clients ads are supporting online piracy • It is bad for our client’s brands • It is bad for content owners • Its bad for the industry • Confirms “wild west” fears • Advertising Revenue is making the IP infringers stronger!
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What if we could stop the advertising from getting to the rogue sites in the first place?
Operationalizing Anti-Piracy Purpose: • Create an operational framework that is simple and inexpensive to prevent advertising revenue from reaching IP infringement sites Objectives: • Maintain an accurate and up to date list of content theft sites • Legal contract between agency and publishers • Prevent Advertising from reaching rogue sites • Auditing process to check compliance • Clear internal external communications • Evaluate technology partners 5
Operationalizing Anti-Piracy 1.0 Content Owners Google Transparency Verification companies Campaign 1 The “list” 4000+ sites Campaign 2 Legal Contract with insertion order Advertising Network or Publisher Audit Campaign 3 Adsafe DoubleVerify etc
Since the start of the initiative, between $10 and $12 million dollars have been withheld from rogue sites
Anti-Piracy 2.0 • Choose technology partners that can help with: • More robust lists • Lower risks to agencies • Dispute resolution • Roll-out to Europe and ROW • Encourage a wider group of US agencies to participate