IAB Canada has launched its Slack workspace for all Council, Committee and Working Group members to connect with hundreds of peers in the Canadian digital advertising community. All members have access to #General conversation threads, #News and #Events as well…

IAB Canada has created several new working groups to address major issues the industry faces today and in the coming years. The groups are formed based on member feedback, global industry developments and regulatory activity. If you would like to…

What’s Next for MRC We’re working on the finishing touches for the 2-day IAB Canada Business of Digital: Report on Data – Measurement and Accountability event taking place next week – November 24 & 25th. Given the rapidly changing cross-media…

What Federal Canadian Privacy Law Reform Means for our Industry Earlier this week, the Honourable Navdeep Bains, Minister of Innovation, Science and Industry, introduced the proposed Digital Charter Implementation Act, 2020, which modernizes the framework for the protection of personal…

This week IAB Canada uploaded an additional 40 research reports, POV’s and other white papers to our Members-Only Knowledge Centre from respected sources, almost all from 2020. These whitepapers hail from respected sources like Blue Carbon, Digiday, Edison Research, eMarketer,…

This morning the Honourable Navdeep Bains, Minister of Innovation, Science and Industry, introduced the proposed Digital Charter Implementation Act, 2020, which modernizes the framework for the protection of personal information in the private sector. Through the proposed Digital Charter Implementation…

IAB Canada’s Report on Data “The only constant in life, is change”, said Greek philosopher Heraclitus, and this is more evident than ever in the rapidly changing digital advertising landscape. With every major ad tech innovation or platform launch, we…

Insights shared at the week-long IAB Brand Disruption event closely match the conversations IAB Canada had during our eCommerce week, “The fastest-growing brands of 2021 will be storeless, data-rich, live, participatory, entertaining, localized, and streaming.” As presented at IAB Canada’s…

As we brace ourselves for major shifts in our current Canadian privacy laws, the Office of the Privacy Commissioner (OPC) is laying the groundwork for what they would like to see in a reformed PIPEDA, specifically pertaining to the regulation…

Canada should expect to see a bill amending PIPEDA as early as mid-November. In the meantime, we continue our dialogue with Ottawa, and just this morning sat down for another conversation between industry and federal Privacy Commissioner Therrien. There were…

IAB Canada continues to work hard to provide urgent support for domestic news publishers in Canada. This year has been particularly challenging as brands have been faced with major decisions on communications in times of uncertainty.  Over the past few…