Win more business as one of our Certified Suppliers

We work with leading suppliers in the media industry, delivering an annual audit that demonstrates their systems adhere to ABC’s reporting requirements.

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How do you stand out to media owners?

Media owners rely on a multitude of industry partners to support their business and distribution models.

Although many supplier businesses are well versed in ABC, gaps in understanding and consequent lack of evidence can lead to copies being disallowed at audit. This leads to major headaches for media owners.

Prove your credentials as a Certified Supplier

We deliver an annual audit of your reporting, systems and processes. Upon successful completion, we rely on this for your clients' ABC claims, simplifying requirements for you and your media owner clients.

This saves time and costs whilst greatly enhancing your value as a business partner.

Benefits of being a Certified Supplier

Being a Certified Supplier enables you to:

Demonstrate your understanding of ABC requirements
Secure new business
Simplify the audit process for you and your clients
Be easily found on our website by media owners looking for ABC-compliant partners
Show your support of industry agreed standards.
Raise trust and transparency in your industry

Steps to certification

Registration

Your engagement with us starts with a conversation about your company, what you offer and the types of clients you have.

Pre-Audit

We’ll identify where your service interacts with ABC requirements, explain our definitions and standards, and set up an audit programme which enables us to test your reporting, systems and processes.

Audit

We’ll work with you to deliver your audit. When the work is complete, we’ll supply a private management report indicating performance against key metrics, including recommendations for improvement, if necessary.

Certification

We’ll issue a public certificate detailing the areas we’ve tested. This shows that your reporting meets ABC standards, so we can quickly accept your reports when we’re conducting audits for your clients.

Promotion

We’ll support you to market your achievement.

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Why choose us

Expertise

You’ll have the expertise you need to hand.

Independence

We’re an industry-owned independent third party auditor. We’ll provide unbiased and objective assessments of compliance.

Value for Money

As a non-profit distributing company, our services are cost effective and our audits are designed to be efficient and effective.

Methodology

We use a proven and rigorous audit methodology in all our assessments. We take a consultative approach which means we’ll help you understand what’s required, and provide advice to help you secure your certification.

As a Certified Supplier we’re able to streamline ABC reporting for our publisher clients, delivering benefits for all parties; ease of reporting for publishers, and the availability of valued, trusted data for media buyers.

Laurent Kayser

CEO, Cafeyne

Potential content providers will check ABC’s list of Certified Suppliers when looking to work with us, in no considerable part because they know that companies audited by ABC will be trusted, transparent and conscientious business partners.

Helen Bower

Group Commercial Director, Bolinda UK (Borrowbox)

Who can become a Certified Supplier?

Our Certified Suppliers include subscription fulfilment, bulk pick up, digital publishing platforms, and web analytics services (see table below).

All the below have undergone our audit which confirms their systems can support the reporting of data to ABC Standards.

As these companies have been audited and we can place reliance on their systems, media owners benefit when they use a Certified Supplier because our reporting requirements are simplified. It also means additional costs to media owners are minimised when we perform an audit of their figures.

These Certified Suppliers are clearly demonstrating their willingness to be open to scrutiny, as well as their support of industry agreed standards.

Organisation	Certificate	Certified for:
BULK DISTRIBUTION
	Global Media Hub – ABC Distribution Report	Consumer Magazines: Monitored Free Distribution, Sample Free Distribution National Newspapers, Regional Publications, ABC Bulk Distribution: Free Pick up, Sample Free Distribution
	Gold Key Media - ABC Publisher Statement	Consumer Magazines: Monitored Free Distribution, Sample Free Distribution Regional Publications, ABC Bulk Distribution: Free Pick up, Sample Free Distribution Exceptions or additional explanatory notes apply, please see certificate for details
	MG Promotions Ltd – ABC Summary Report	Consumer Magazines: Monitored Free Distribution, Sample Free Distribution Regional Publications: Free Pick up, Sample Free Distribution
	Self Select Distribution – Multi Drop Report	Consumer Magazines: Monitored Free Distribution, Sample Free Distribution National Newspapers, Regional Publications, ABC Bulk Distribution: Free Pick up, Sample Free Distribution
DIGITAL PUBLISHING PLATFORM
	Apple News Plus	Consumer Magazines: All You Can Read Sales
	BorrowBox - ABC Circulation Report	Consumer Magazines Multiple Copy Business Sales (Digital Edition)
	Cafeyn ABC Report	Consumer Magazines, National Newspapers, Regional Publications: Paid Single Copies (Digital Edition), Paid Subscriptions (Digital Edition), All You Can Read Sales Consumer Magazines, National Newspapers: Multiple Copy Business Sales (Digital Edition)
	Digi-Mags Publisher Report	Consumer Magazines, National Newspapers: Multiple Copy Business Sales (Digital Edition)
	Gold Key Media Ltd - Downloads Report	Consumer Magazines, National Newspapers: Multiple Copy Business Sales (Digital Edition) ABC Bulk Distribution, Consumer Magazines, Regional Publications: Free Requested Delivered (Digital Edition) Exceptions or additional explanatory notes apply. Please see certificate for details.
	MagazineCloner ABC Report	Consumer Magazines: Paid Single Copies (Digital Edition), Paid Subscriptions (Digital Edition) Exceptions or additional explanatory notes apply. Please see certificate for details.
	Media Carrier – Standard Downloads Details	Consumer Magazines, National Newspapers: Multiple Copy Business Sales (Digital Edition) Regional Publications: Free Requested Delivered (Digital Edition) Exceptions or additional explanatory notes apply. Please see certificate for details.
	Readly ABC Report	Consumer Magazines, National Newspapers: All You Can Read Sales ABC Bulk Distribution, Consumer Magazines, Regional Publications: Free Requested Delivered (Digital Edition)
	ZINIO ABC Report	Consumer Magazines: Paid Single Copies (Digital Edition), Paid Subscriptions (Digital Edition), Multiple Copy Business Sales (Digital Edition) Exceptions or additional explanatory notes apply. Please see certificate for details.
SUBSCRIPTION FULFILMENT
	CDS Global – Publisher Report	Consumer Magazines: Paid Subscriptions Exceptions or additional explanatory notes apply. Please see certificate for details.
	DLT Magazines - Subscription Report	Consumer Magazines: Paid Subscriptions Exceptions or additional explanatory notes apply. Please see certificate for details.
	dsb.net - ABC Report	Consumer Magazines: Paid Subscriptions Exceptions or additional explanatory notes apply. Please see certificate for details.
WEB TRAFFIC ANALYTICS
	Adobe Analytics	Unique Users, Page Impressions, Visits Exceptions or additional explanatory notes apply, please see certificate for details
	Piano Analytics	Unique Users, Page Impressions, Visits