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Brand Safety Week 2023
Brand Safety Week celebrated 10 years of progress in surfacing issues and solutions to media quality and responsibility challenges. Listen to what the brand safety community has to say on AI, privacy, DEI, and MFA’s.
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New Brand Safety Insights
Published in partnership with Unitary, new insights on advancing online safety beyond the “99% effectiveness” mark. Featuring BSI COO AJ Brown and Advisory Board member Joe Fried from Inspire Brands.
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Breaking News Can Be Brand Safe
BSI has gathered the tools and insights from experts to ensure that news fits into your advertising plan, and to help you fine-tune your strategies when bad news happens.
Learn MoreWhat We Do
The Brand Safety Institute is the advertising industry's community of practice for brand and people safety. We help our membership and communities to stay informed, manage risk, and act responsibly through:
Certification
Ensuring professional competency in understanding and executing brand safe policies and practices
Thought Leadership
Monitoring, documenting, and interrogating the evolving landscape of brand safety, brand suitability, and marketing responsibility
Community
Connecting and empowering brand safety professionals to widen their perspectives and informing their decision-making through engagement with peers and experts
Education
Sharing industry best practices and advocating for standards, ethical behavior, and consumer respect
There are certified brand safety practitioners at the world’s largest advertising agency holding companies, global 500 brands, and major technology platforms.
Get Certified
As the challenges to brand safety continue to arise, certified brand safety professionals and companies raise industry competency and secure our media channels in the age of digital and "live" content. Certified professionals signal to the industry that they are operating at the highest possible levels in brand safety effectiveness and reputational risk management. Our certifications are designed to elucidate brand safety issues, solutions/partners, and help you/your company act responsibly.
Brand Safety Officer
A Brand Safety Officer certification demonstrates to companies and peers that you are a qualified practitioner, and thought-leader, in the field of brand safety
Brand Safety Business Partner
Brand Safety Business Partner certification is for non-experts to build their knowledge of the digital advertising supply chain and the issues
Brand Safe Workforce
The Brand Safe Workforce certification provides the training and certification for individual Brand Safety Officers and Brand Safety Business Partners as well as corporate certification recognizing a commitment to brand safety.
Get Involved
Brand safety, brand suitability, and marketing responsibility are becoming more complex and nuanced by the day. Expert practitioners and policy leaders across the digital advertising supply chain are shaping the discussion around managing reputational risk. Become a part of the BSI community of practice that sees brand safety as fundamental to a healthy and sustainable digital advertising ecosystem, stays current on the issues, pushes for progress, and believes shared success is a win for everyone.
Knowledge Centers
Organized around a specific topic area in brand safety and suitability practice, BSI's Knowledge Centers give you the information you need to develop and execute your brand safety strategy.
Video Interviews
Interviews with thought-leaders in the brand safety and suitability space.
Brand Safety Officer-in-Residence
BSI’s Brand Safety Officer-in-Residence helps to amplify the voice, contributions and importance of a well-trained and resourced Brand Safety Officer.
Get Connected
Marketers, publishers, agencies, platforms, and ad tech solution providers all bring different perspectives on brand safety and how they can contribute to a healthier ecosystem. BSI communities bring together these diverse perspectives to enable the industry to move forward by working together to achieve shared goals. Sharing insights and experiences across the supply chain empowers members of our communities to elevate their brand safety practices and create cross-industry understanding.
Marketers' Roundtable
Keeps marketing professionals aware of new and ongoing brand, media, and public safety issues that can undermine advertising effectiveness and the positive potential of online content.
Publisher Council
Advertising and media executives from publishing companies to explore and elevate publishers’ perspectives, value, and role in brand safety and suitability issues
Get Smarter
Managing reputational risk is always harder when you have blind spots. The Brand Safety Institute continuously surveys the landscape for market intelligence and perspective to consider as you build your Brand Safety Plan and execute it. We are here to help you keep a pulse on what is trending and how your colleagues across the ecosystem are approaching the various challenges to brand safety, brand suitability, and marketing responsibility. We collate important industry news around brand safety, create topical sections, and feature key stories on our BSI blog to help you stay informed.
