Brand safety isn’t what it used to be. Not hyperbole, but a diagnosis after which chaos ensues, making it hard to nail down...
Brand Safety and the Fight for Effectiveness
by Victor Z Glenn on Jul 21, 2025 9:00:00 AM
There is a new fault line in advertising - it’s brand safety - and it has become one of the most politically charged issues...
Brand Safety in an Age of Constrained Optionality
by Victor Z Glenn on Jul 11, 2025 10:46:32 AM
In 2025 the increasingly surreal media concept of brand safety, once an industry consensus-driven shield against...
Brand Safety is Now a Double-Edged Sword
by Victor Z Glenn on Jul 3, 2025 1:46:56 PM
The recent FTC-imposed restrictions on Omnicom’s $13.5 billion merger with IPG signal how complicated the brand safety...
Cannes 2025: AI, Authenticity, and the ROI of Responsibility
by AJ Brown on Jun 25, 2025 2:48:49 PM
Cannes this year was dominated by big bets on retail media and the continued evolution of CTV, with platforms like Amazon,...
2025 & Beyond – The Shifting Impact of AI, Creators, and Community Notes
by Victor Z Glenn on Jun 24, 2025 6:07:57 PM
The brand safety conversation in 2025 isn’t about facts or integrity, it’s about how quickly the ground beneath it is...
AI, Accountability, and Assurance - Getting it Right
by Victor Z Glenn on Jun 11, 2025 11:57:22 AM
As AI-powered ad tech advances, platforms, providers, and brands are racing to show they can both scale their current...
The Brand Safety Industry Needs to be More “Fit” for Purpose
by Victor Z Glenn on Jun 3, 2025 2:53:34 PM
Brand safety has seemingly become a sometimes loaded, and often misunderstood term. Moreover, it appears to rarely be...
Building Smarter Standards for a Complex Media Landscape
by Victor Z Glenn on May 23, 2025 1:53:01 PM
As new formats, social platforms, and programmatic ecosystems emerge - the conversation around brand safety continues to...
Brand Safety: An Accurate Reflection
by Victor Z Glenn on May 16, 2025 12:49:04 PM
For decades, media operated on a simple value exchange: creators offered something useful, entertaining, or informative, and...