Welcome to BSI

The advertising industry's community of practice for brand and people safety

The Brand Safety Institute's mission is to continuously drive a healthy and sustainable advertising ecosystem by raising awareness of brand and people safe practices through thought leadership, community, education, and certification
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Stay Informed | Manage Risk | Act Responsibly

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Workshop: AI Slop or Not?

On June 16, at 11:30am ET, Kara Manatt (EVP, Intelligence Solutions, MAGNA/Omnicom) and Sebastian Velez (VP, Research & Insights, Zefr) discuss the findings from their "AI Slop or Not?" research and how marketers are approaching AI content adjacency across channels and content types.

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TikTok & BSI's Creator Suitability Report

As creator partnerships become core strategy, suitability and alignment have become essential to long-term success. TikTok and BSI are proud to partner on this topic and present original research vital to advancing safe practices in advertising.

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Marketers Who Embrace AI vs. the Ones Who Wait

Entrepreneur Donnovan Andrews talks about his new media/communications holding company, Brand Storytelling, its AI-focused expansion, and we chart the transformation of the relationship between content and consumers.

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Publisher Quality Utility

A free, unique-in-the-industry tool that lets publishers see how buyers of digital advertising inventory view the quality of your site(s).

  • Check whether you domains are listed on MFA blocklists provided by the leading third-party verification vendors
  • Find out your Data Integrity Index score from Compliant
  • Get visibility into Jounce Media's Cheap Reach and Untrusted Media scoring

With more being added all the time.

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What 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 safety and suitable policies and practices

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Thought Leadership

Monitoring, documenting, and interrogating the evolving landscape of brand safety, brand suitability, and marketing responsibility

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Community

Connecting and empowering brand safety professionals to widen their perspectives and informing their decision-making through engagement with peers

Marketers Roundtable
Publisher Council

Education

Sharing industry best practices and advocating for industry standards, ethical behavior, and consumer respect

Blog
Resource Library
BSI Newsletter

BSI works with leading advertisers, agencies, platforms, and publishers — organizations whose teams have participated in BSI certification programs or partnered with us on research, education, or product development.

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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.

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.

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.

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.

Share with a Colleague

Accelerate brand safety practice in your workplace, and the wider industry, by sharing the mission of the Brand Safety Institute with a colleague.

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The New Realities of Brand Safety in 2026

Brand safety has changed dramatically over the past year, yet it remains one of the most powerful and misunderstood levers in digital marketing. The old playbook is simply outdated and needs to evolve.

In 2026, marketers will need to navigate new complexities, make tougher trade-offs, and rethink old assumptions.

Trends and Best Practices

Artificial Intelligence

AI is a huge focal point for all businesses as each tries to understand what AI capabilities apply to them, or can make meaningful differences in how they go to market and drive competitive advantage.

As such, it is useful to widen the lens and look at how other industries are experiencing and estimating the impact of AI trends on their businesses.

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Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion

We are at the proverbial “tipping point” for race, ethnicity, and other elements of difference in our country, and around the world. The optics are changing in real, global time.

BSI's new Knowledge Center will expand your perspectives on the importance of DEI for business and be a source for information along your DEI journey.

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Marketer Guides to Brand Safety & Suitability

Navigating platforms poses a unique challenge for marketers. Meanwhile, unlike the walled-gardens, the open web is fragmented, default-open, and intermediated by complex supply chains.

AJ Brown, BSI’s COO, with industry leaders, offers concrete best practices to help marketers reduce risk, improve performance, and invest more responsibly.

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Marketers Guide to the Open Web

News & Journalism

News and journalism serve a critical role in our societies, and advertisers have a responsibility to help it survive in a world where truth becomes hard to recognize.

In this Knowledge Center, you will find your suitability for news and journalistic forays and your sense of responsibility for the role it plays in your marketing - or operations, if you are a publisher.

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