Online Advertising Taskforce

The Online Advertising Taskforce brings together representatives from government and the online advertising sector to work in collaboration to address illegal harms and the protection of children in relation to online advertising.

Role

The Online Advertising Taskforce supports the aims of the Department for Culture, Media and Sport’s Online Advertising Programme to improve transparency and accountability in the online advertising supply chain. It will deliver a programme of work to help address illegal advertising and minimise children being served advertising for products and services illegal to sell to them (‘in-scope harms’).

The Taskforce’s key deliverable is an action plan which sets out commitments against the 2 key objectives of the taskforce:

improving the evidence around the scale and threat of the in-scope harms
identifying ways to enhance voluntary industry initiatives or standards to tackle the drivers of the in-scope harms

Meetings

The taskforce will meet at least 3 times a year. The first meeting was held on 27 July 2023.

Members

Julia Lopez MP, Minister for Media, Tourism and Creative Industries (DCMS) - Chair
Mark Lund, Chairman, Advertising Standards Board of Finance - Deputy Chair
Simon Fell MP, Anti-Fraud Champion, Home Office
Jemima Murray, Deputy Director of Fraud Policy, Home Office
Daniel Okubo, Deputy Director of Online Harms Programmes and International, Department for Science, Innovation and Technology
David Marshall, Deputy Director for Consumer Policy, Department for Business and Trade
Guy Parker, Chief Executive, Advertising Standards Authority
Phil Smith, Director General, Incorporated Society of British Advertisers
Christie Dennehy-Neil, Head of Policy & Regulatory Affairs, Internet Advertising Bureau
Konrad Shek, Director of Policy Research, Advertising Association
Richard Lindsay, Director of Legal and Public Affairs, Institute of Practitioners in Advertising
Sayra Tekin, Director of Legal, News Media Association
Simon Miller, Director of Policy and Communications, Stop Scams
Antony Walker, Deputy CEO, TechUK

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