A BSI-connected trio discussed The Role of the Brand Safety Office: the professionalization of the BSO, and its intersection with hot-button issues like brand (and corporate social) responsibility.
Brand safety and brand responsibility have been defined by IPG Mediabrands as being in tension. Like any good duality, however, one can not exist without the other.

Brand Safety Officer Unboxing

by Jeremy Spitzberg on Jun 17, 2020 6:37:08 PM

The members of our Inaugural Class of Brand Safety Officers received a sharp-looking schwag box on their doorsteps!

News is brand safe

by Brand Safety Institute on Jun 3, 2020 5:02:26 PM

BSI, the Local Media Consortium, and Scott Cunningham, released a “Local News Advertising Whitelist”. Now two months on, a lot has changed.
The Brand Safety Institute announced its Inaugural Class of certified Brand Safety Officers.
BSI today announced the hiring of Christine Desrosiers as the organization’s first Brand Safety Officer-in-Residence.
COVID-19 is an inflection point in an unimaginable number of ways, and we sit here in the middle of it. We must ensure that what has unfolded serves as an opportunity to reexamine our approach to news and how brands relate to stories that touch on...
Two new studies show the importance, and fragility, of consumer trust in brand advertising
BSI Advisory Board members were featured in a New York Times article looking at the the Covid-19 pandemic as a brand safety, and ad adjacency, issue.

Brand Safety Bingo

by Jeremy Spitzberg on Feb 25, 2020 8:37:48 PM

A look at YouTube Gaming, published by WIRED, shows a veritable bingo card of brand safety issues.