Taxes, Privacy, and You
January 28, 2025 @ 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm
With the beginning of a new Congress and the return of the state legislatures, what may be on the horizon for the advertising and marketing industry in 2025 and beyond? Taxes and privacy are major issues impacting our industry. From new regulations—Virginia enacted new privacy laws recently—to ensuring that our collective voice is heard on major issues, AAF Executive Vice President of Government Affairs Clark Rector will walk us through what’s happening in Washington, DC, and how it trickles into our businesses every day.
Join us on January 28 at 1:00 PM at the Roanoke Higher Education Center for an insightful discussion on the future of the advertising and marketing industry. This talk is important to everyone connected to advertising and marketing, whether you work at an agency, in-house, as a freelancer, or at a media organization. Members and non-members are invited to attend.
Most advertising issues are not highly partisan and our industry has had strong defenders and critics in both parties. Your voice as the AAF’s grassroots fuels the only national advertising association that has members in nearly every state, making AAF able to engage with lawmakers on behalf of the advertising industry on tax, privacy, First Amendment, and other issues of concern.
Rector will also share information about the upcoming Day on the Hill in March, where you can speak to your legislators.
Lunch will be provided.
Bio
As Executive Vice President of Government Affairs, Clark Rector oversees and directs the lobbying efforts of the American Advertising Federation’s grassroots network of 35,000 advertising professionals in some 150 local advertising clubs and federations nationwide. Together, they have defeated ad tax proposals and other threats to advertising in Congress, nearly every state and numerous cities and counties. In his role as chief public policy advocate for the Federation, Rector meets with lawmakers and regulators to educate them about advertising and represent the industry’s position on important legislative and regulatory matters. He has testified for the AAF before the U.S. Senate and Federal Trade Commission, as well as numerous state legislatures and city governments.
Prior to joining the AAF in 1988, Rector spent two years on Capitol Hill as a legislative assistant for Congressman Tom Luken of Ohio. He also spent three years working in local television in Austin, Texas. Rector is a graduate of the University of Texas and received a Master of Arts in Communication Studies from the University of Iowa.
