Advertise With Confidence in Regulated Industries

Run digital campaigns in regulated industries and connect customers with your products and services. 

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Navigate Advertising Challenges in Regulated Industries

Advertising in regulated industries comes with its own range of challenges, including distribution constraints. StackAdapt helps you reach your audience and drive business confidently, with its privacy-first platform, brand-safety controls, dedicated onboarding and more.

Reach Your Customers and Grow Your Revenue

Cannabis and CBD Products

Leverage our experience and launch a digital campaign across available channels, such as display, connected TV, digital out-of-home, and email. Optimize your ad spend and ad placement while campaigns are running to maximize reach, engagement, and return on investment (ROI), subject to applicable platform policies and local regulations.

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Gambling

Run gambling campaigns on approved, gambling-enabled platforms. Where permitted, upload your 1st-party data* and launch a multi-channel digital campaign that reaches your audience and drives measurable outcomes.

*Must adhere to StackAdapt’s Data Processing Addendum.

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Other Regulated Industries

We know that regulated industry categories require heightened attention when it comes to advertising. Our experienced team can support your campaigns across the most common sensitive brand categories, including healthcare, political, financial products, alcohol, and others.

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Why StackAdapt for Your Sensitive Campaigns

Brand Safety

We take brand safety very seriously at StackAdapt. We have a dedicated team that reviews ad creatives designed to provide a safe and suitable advertising experience aligned with our platform policies and partner standards.

Quick Time to Market

Our Platform Quality Team develops policies and processes to reduce manual and reactionary troubleshooting of campaigns to get your ads launched quickly.

Easy Onboarding

We onboard regulated industry campaigns to ensure they adhere to StackAdapt’s platform policies prior to launch.

Ad Auditing

We provide guidance and a final quality check on your campaigns to verify they meet the StackAdapt content guidelines before going live. 

Contextual Targeting

Our patented algorithm* will help you reach your target audience based on the content they are searching for.

*US patent 11,748,776

Easy Campaign Execution

Leverage deals to make sure you reach the right audience and run your ad campaigns on approved partners who accept regulated industries content.

Monitor and Optimize Campaigns Mid-Flight

Get a unified view of campaign performance across channels directly in the StackAdapt platform. Identify the best performing channels, ad creative, and more to optimize your campaigns mid-flight and maximize your impact.

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We Partner With Industry Leaders

We offer seamless integrations with data partners, so you can get your advertising campaigns up and running.

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Work With Us on Your Ad Campaigns

Inspiring Case Studies

See how StackAdapt helped drive conversions for these brands in sensitive categories.

Industry Resources

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Webinar

NORAM

Oct 25, 2023

How to Leverage Programmatic in Regulated Industries

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Blog

Jun 13, 2023

Cannabis Marketing Strategies for Programmatic Advertising

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Guide

GLOBAL

Jul 5, 2022

Industry Targeting for Digital Campaigns

Request a demo and find out how we can help with your regulated industries advertising campaign.

StackAdapt Regulated Industries Advertising Disclaimer

  • Advertising in regulated industries must follow all applicable laws, regulations, licensing requirements, as well as publisher and StackAdapt policies.
  • Eligibility can vary by location and inventory source, and is reviewed case by case.
  • While StackAdapt may review or approve campaigns, this does not constitute legal advice or guarantee compliance with applicable laws.
  • Advertisers are responsible for ensuring their products, services, claims, data usage, and targeting strategies meet all legal and regulatory requirements.
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