Identity & Authority: Digital Advertising Alliance (DAA) / YourAdChoices – Signal Evidence & AI Readability

Digital Advertising Alliance (DAA) / YourAdChoices

(https://youradchoices.com) 📸 Data Snapshot: May 21, 2026
Identity & Authority — The Lens

Inspect the JSON-LD. Is there an Organization or Person schema, and does it carry sameAs links to real external profiles (LinkedIn, socials)? Missing schema or no identity declaration signals an anonymous entity.

Identity & Authority Expert verifiability & Schema depth.
7 Impact Weight: 15 / 100
47% Reputation

The primary authority gap is technical rather than reputational. All pages lack structured data (schema_json is null), which is a disconnect for an organization establishing industry standards for the ‘digital economy.’ While it lacks Person schema for individual experts, it provides massive institutional authority by listing the specific founding years and missions of its partner trade associations (e.g., 4As established 1917, ANA founded 1910).

The site makes a bold claim that the Icon is served ‘globally more than one trillion times each month.’ While plausible for this industry body, the site lacks a direct link to a transparency report or third-party audit to substantiate this specific figure. Other performance claims regarding the ‘hundreds of companies’ participating are supported by naming the trade associations that represent them.

Identity & Authority is read from the structured data first: whether the site declares who it is in machine-readable schema, with verifiable identity links. Below is the schema captured per page, then the external proof links that support (or fail to support) that identity.

🔗 Identity & Technical Layer — schema JSON-LD: identity chains, entity gaps
Homepage — no schema detected (entity gap)
/learn/ — no schema detected (entity gap)
/control/ — no schema detected (entity gap)
/about/ — no schema detected (entity gap)
/principles/ — no schema detected (entity gap)
/choices-faq/ — no schema detected (entity gap)
🛡️ Trust Signals — external proof links that back the declared identity
13Review mentions (all pages)
0External proof links (all pages)
PageReviewsProof links
/ (home) 0 0
/learn/ 0 0
/control/ 0 0
/about/ 0 0
/principles/ 0 0
/choices-faq/ 13 0
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