The Brand Safety Institute has compiled the latest news from around the digital advertising institute touching on brand safety, brand suitability, AI, technology, diversity and inclusion, and other topics shaping discussion.


Jan 30, 2025 Amazon Raises Its Ad Spending on Elon Musk’s X, in Major Reversal The Wall Street Journal

Jan 25, 2025 Meta’s Free-Speech Shift Made It Clear to Advertisers: ‘Brand Safety’ Is Out of Vogue The Wall Street Journal

Jan 24, 2025 Introducing Ads in Threads: Extend Your Campaigns to a Rapidly Growing Community Meta

Jan 14, 2025 What is the Future of Brand Safety on Meta's Platforms? ExchangeWire

As agencies evolve AI tools for influencer vetting, they’re also discovering the tech’s limitations Digiday

As agencies evolve AI tools for influencer vetting, they’re also discovering the tech’s limitations Digiday

Jan 13, 2025 X To Add Multiple New Defendants In Ad Boycott Suit Media Daily News

Jan 10, 2025 Pixalate’s December 2024 US Publisher Rankings for Mobile Apps, Websites, and CTV: Spotify.com, ‘WeatherBug’, and ‘FOX Sports’ Among Top-Ranked Publishers and Apps For Open Programmatic Ad Traffic Quality Pixilate

Dec 24, 2024 YouTube declares war on clickbait: What it means for media, creators, and advertisers e4m

Dec 6, 2024 True Crime Podcasts Can Win Advertisers – As Long As The Discourse Stays Civil Ad Exchanger

Nov 8, 2024 Safeguarding Brand Safety and Suitability in the Age of Social Media Branding in Asia

Why vertical video content is helping news publishing stay the right side up The Drum

Brands and brand leaders react to Trump’s presidential win Campaign US

Less brand safety, more SEO spend in 2025, Forrester predicts Marketing Brew

Nov 7, 2024 DoubleVerify strengthens media quality authentication on Snap with brand safety and suitability measurement Agency Reporter

After The Election, News Corp Has Harsh Words For Advertisers Who Avoided News AdExchanger

Oct 13, 2024 Adam Mosseri addresses moderation issues on Threads TechEdt

Oct 11, 2024 DoubleVerify to Introduce Pre-screen Content Controls on Meta Martechcube

Musk Dismisses Suit Against Unilever Over Alleged 'Massive Boycott' MediaPost

Oct 10, 2024 Let’s trust humans on what makes content brand-safe InPublishing

Sep 23, 2024 Brands push for apolitical influencers to avoid ‘backlash’ as U.S. presidential election looms Digiday

Spotify Adds Moonshot to Safety Council to Combat Extremism Radio Ink

TikTok Offers New Misinformation Measurement To Reassure Ad Partners Social Media Today

Sep 19, 2024 ‘You can’t be hands off the wheel’: Is brand safety a ‘shared issue’? MarketingWeek

Aug 29, 2024 DoubleVerify launches educational media quality guide for APAC Marketers Mediaweek

Aug 15, 2024 WARC releases programmatic report InPublishing

The Curtain Falls On GARM — Revealing Industrywide Brand Safety Issues Forrester

Aug 14, 2024 GARM's Shutdown Is an Opportunity to Finally Get Brand Safety Right AdWeek

Is complete brand safety realistic? Campaign Asia

Aug 13, 2024 Podcast ads generate as much attention as TV ads Podnews

Aug 12, 2024 Brands Love Influencers (Until Politics Get Involved) The New York Times

Aug 6, 2024 LMC’s NewsPassID Ad Network Releases New Solutions to Streamline Local News Advertising Buys NewsPassID

X, Owned by Elon Musk, Brings Antitrust Suit Accusing Advertisers of a Boycott New York Times

Aug 2, 2024 Congress Puts Major Advertisers In Hot Seat Over Use Of GARM Standards InsideRadio

IAS Is Battling DV For Moat’s Soon-To-Be-Former Business AdExchanger

Balancing Sustainability and Brand Safety in Programmatic Advertising DecenterAds

Aug 1, 2024 Advertisers Slow To Invest In $184B Gaming Media, Report Shows MediaPost

Jul 31, 2024 Brand Safety Summit Announces Its Newest Members and Partners Brand Safety Summit

DoubleVerify Breaks The Moat And Storms The Social Castle AdExchanger

Google introduces enhanced reporting and AI tools for advertisers Tech Edition

Jul 30, 2024 6 influencer marketing brand safety considerations to bake into your strategy Sprout Social

Jul 29, 2024 YouTube rejoins Barb The Media Leader

Jul 15, 2024 Fighting AI with AI: Is This The Future Of Brand Safety? ExchangeWire

Are Consumers Actually “Influenced” by Virtual Influencers? (The Answer May Surprise You!) NAB Amplify

X Calls For Legal Action Against GARM MediaPost

Jul 1, 2024 X Rejoins GARM To Reassure Ad Partners on Brand Safety Social Media Today

Jun 18, 2024 IAS expands brand safety and suitability measurement for YouTube Storyboard 18

Jun 17, 2024 The ANA Says Advertisers Are Spending Way Less On MFA – But Programmatic Ain’t Fully Transparent Yet AdExchanger

Jun 14, 2024 How CMOs can embrace the Generative AI opportunity WARC

Jun 12, 2024 The process by which influencer agencies verify and identify counterfeit influencers and followers List23