Brand safety was born out of frustration, but the industry’s future requires “continuous improvement” in defining suitable content for marketers to drive their businesses. Beyond 2025, the safest brands will be those that understand, adapt, and...
For advertisers and ad-tech leaders, the rapid ascent of artificial intelligence has opened a new frontier of promise, and risk. The advertising ecosystem could inadvertently find themselves in hot water when they simply intended to move business forward...
The topic of brand safety and the online safety problem now extend well beyond gaming and social media, into the broader ad tech ecosystem. Advertisers can help transform brand safety from a defensive posture into an opportunity for leadership, aligning...
In 2025, safety isn’t the absence of harm, it’s the presence of responsibility. You can’t build trust if your content, like much of today’s generative media, is engineered to approximate meaning rather than actually say something.
The adoption of AI tools has outpaced the industry’s ability to regulate their use. For advertisers, this means adapting from risk avoidance to proactive strategic risk management, where intentionality becomes a competitive advantage. Upgrade your stance...
There is a new fault line in advertising, it’s brand safety, and this raises the uncomfortable reality that current brand safety tools can’t keep pace with the deluge. We have an uphill walk ahead of us.
Brand safety now sits at the confusing intersection of politics, social responsibility, and platform accountability. The way forward is going to be to invest in clear and adaptable brand safety frameworks that prioritize reputational risk – which is now...
Cannes this year was dominated by big bets on retail media and the continued evolution of CTV, with platforms like Amazon, Walmart, Roku, and Netflix carving out ever-larger footprints along the Croisette. Learn more in our recap blog post!
The brand safety conversation in 2025 isn’t about facts or integrity, it’s about how quickly the ground beneath it is shifting. In an era when AI and creator-led content will drive much digital reach, these dependencies underscore the difficulty of...
As AI-powered ad tech advances, platforms, providers, and brands are racing to show they can both scale their current efforts and safeguard their strategies. The connective thread across these developments is clear: brand safety isn’t just about...