Virginia Law

A. A video streaming service, social media video service, or third-party advertising manager that serves consumers residing in the Commonwealth shall exercise reasonable care to engage in normalization of the audio of short-form content so that such audio is not transmitted at a louder volume than the long-form content it accompanies, consistent with the regulations adopted by the Federal Communications Commission pursuant to the federal Commercial Advertisement Loudness Mitigation (CALM) Act (47 U.S.C. § 621) for television broadcast stations, cable operators, and other multichannel video programming distributors. There shall be a rebuttable presumption that a video streaming service, social media video service, or third-party advertising manager that maintains processes to require that short-form content not be louder than the long-form content it accompanies that are similar to those processes employed to comply with the CALM Act is exercising reasonable care.

B. A video streaming service, social media video service, or third-party advertising manager that engages in normalization shall be deemed in compliance with this chapter.

C. A video streaming service or social media video service that engages a third-party advertising manager that solely controls the loudness of short-form content on such service shall not be liable under subsection A for short-form content distributed by the third-party advertising manager on such service, provided that such service enters into a written agreement with the third-party advertising manager that requires the audio of short-form content distributed by the third-party advertising manager to be no louder than the target loudness of the accompanying long-form content distributed by the video streaming service or social media video service, consistent with established industry standards.

2026, c. 1057.