BPJ WIRE2026-08-31FEATUREMembers only13 min read
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At the 45-million-user line, your in-store POP becomes a compliance ledger

EU DSA designation raises the pressure not through fines, but through “versioning you can explain.” Printers can price not by print unit cost, but as BPO that includes store-level sorting and swap-outs.

In Europe, online advertising is now required to leave a trail you can search later: when it ran, who paid for it, and who it targeted. The more auditable that trail becomes, the more expensive it is to explain any mismatch between what customers saw online and the wording on in-store POP or inserts included in shipments.

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Translated from Japanese by AI. The Japanese original is authoritative.

At the 45-million-user line, your in-store POP becomes a compliance ledger

“Ad evidence” sets the speed of paper swap-outs

The core of the DSA’s additional obligations is the ad repository. Very Large Online Platforms / Very Large Online Search Engines (VLOP/VLOSE) must store ads they displayed in a searchable format, keep them while the ad is being shown, and retain them for one year after the final display. Commentary frames this as a repository with multi-criteria search and an API.…

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