85% of UK consumers would reduce or stop purchasing products they buy on-the-regular if they discovered an ad for that product had run next to COVID-19 conspiracy theories or misinformation.
Brand Safety and Corporate Social Responsibility are increasingly intertwined, and we can see that by the same language being used to describe each effort.

Louis Jones featured in AdWeek

by Jeremy Spitzberg on Mar 18, 2021 1:58:37 PM

Advertising needs moral standards. With what we have seen in the election just past and the events of the January 6 insurrection attempt, there is no longer any excuse for inaction.
Consumers express a nuanced appreciation of the complexities of the brand safety decisions faced by advertisers.
Part two of the discussion between outgoing and incoming Brand Safety Officers in Residence, Christine Desrosiers and Louis Jones.
Outgoing and incoming Brand Safety Officers in Residence, Christine Desrosiers and Louis Jones, discuss brand safety, and the evolving role of the Brand Safety Officer in the industry.
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.