Brand Safety
Resource Library
Resource Library
Brand Safety Best Practice Guides
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- Creating a More Thorough and Effective Brand Safety Plan
- Through discussions with brand safety experts who contributed to Brand Safety Evolves white paper, we were able to develop a checklist of the steps you can take to increase your efforts in creating your own Brand Safety Plan.
- Identifying, Preventing, and Addressing Adjacency Issues
- Discussion of best practices for brands, ad tech, and publishers around problems caused by undesirable ad adjacencies.
- Hardening Defenses to Prevent Malware in the Direct Sales Channel
- Guide to reducing the risk that a bad actor could gain access to a publisher's users by exploiting weaknesses in the Direct Sales Channel.
- Developing an Anti-Malware Program for your Organization
- Publishers' guide to preventing, monitoring, and stopping malware attacks on their users.
- Selecting and Continuously Evaluating Your Vendors
- Discussion of best practices in finding the right external partners for a business need, and making sure they live up to your expectations.
- Understanding, Explaining, and Demonstrating the Value of a BSO
- Discussion of how to communicate your value as a BSO across the company, and how to raise your profile.
- Leveraging BSO Certification as a Differentiator in Market
- Talking points for companies' sales and business development teams to explain why their investment in an in-house BSO makes them a superior partner, versus those companies who do not make that investment.
- IAB Europe Guide to Brand Safety & Brand Suitability
- IAB Europe has launched this Guide to share background context on brand safety in Europe, pan-European definitions for brand safety and brand suitability with accompanying key considerations, best practices and case studies to help educate all stakeholders on ensuring brand safe environments.
- MMA Brand Safety and Suitability Strategy Guide
- Brought to you by the Mobile Marketing Association (MMA) and the Brand Safety Institute (BSI), this resource will greatly assist advertisers and brand management teams across multiple industries determine and flesh out their needs in the areas of brand safety and suitability.
- Guidelines For Supporting a Diverse Media Supply Chain
- There has been an increased impetus from the ad industry to support diverse suppliers. The 4A's, the ANA, and AIMM, with input from their respective members, drafted these guidelines to help buyers (agencies and marketers) and diverse media suppliers improve their ways of working together.