Challenges include legislation that may limit social use and heightened brand risk due to AI-generated content.
"Daily Mail" ran an eye-tracking study with Lumen Research challenging the a long-held practice among brands to take brand-safety measures that avoid ads running alongside scandalous, negative or
undesirable news content.
The nonprofit research organization Center for Countering Digital Hate on Friday urged a federal appeals court to reject a bid by X Corp. to revive its lawsuit against the group.
To help create and maintain a safer, more accountable AI ecosystem, Meta and Amazon have joined the Frontier Model Forum, an industry-led non-profit organization developed to ensure "safe and
responsible development" of the most impactful AI models.
CEO Mark Penn says the study reinforces the company's position that "quality journalism" is being "demonetized" by certain brand safety practices.
Programmatic was supposed to be about economic and efficient planning and buying, but a new ANA study finds it's mostly related to "bad things."
News coverage of the Bud Light firestorm received more than 11 million interactions during a nine-month period last year.
Most digital pros said they will prioritize social media and digital video/CTV in the year ahead.
A study shows about half of U.S. advertisers surveyed would not know an ad ran next to unsuitable or unsafe content until a day or more later, according to research from Advertiser Perceptions and
Claravine.
Many consumers also will stop following social influencers whose values aren't aligned.
Brand marketers are very interested in Generative AI and various forms of personalization, Bombora reports.
Measure, calibrate, and optimize are part of a new strategy outlined by Integral Ad Science in a white paper released Tuesday.
Marketers and agency executives choosing advanced TV programmatic partners said measurement capabilities were most important.
NewsGuard also released new data showing the number of AI-generated news sites has jumped to 347 -- up from just 49 when they were benchmarked in May.
Advocacy group GLAAD says social media fails to protect LGBTQ+ people from hate speech and harassment.
Inspired Internet Pledge is a call to action for tech companies and the broader tech ecosystem to unite with the common goal of making the internet a safer and healthier place for everyone, especially
young people.
A study released last week found that Black creators on TikTok, YouTube and Twitter drew higher online followings than their non-Black peers.
The most abused brand last year was Microsoft, with more than 30 million messages using the software giant's name in a cyber attack.
"Advertisers have another brand safety issue to worry about," NewsGuard's Gordon Crovitz told me following the release of new research showing ChatGPT-4 has already passed misinformation's equivalent
of a Turing test.
While measurement still needs work, gaming ads are no longer too costly, brand-risky, unscalable or limited in full-funnel effectiveness, according to an IAB report.
"Ad environments that fall into grey areas require careful judgment calls be made by brands and their agencies," notes Joshua Lowcock, global chief media officer at UM.
Among the teens who said they deliberately viewed pornography, 59% indicated they had done so every week.
To date, 84% of Apple's total social-media spend has gone to Twitter, reports MediaRadar.
But most consumers don't approve of advertising that appears next to different kinds of objectionable content, like porn or hate speech.
Nearly two-thirds of consumers say advertisers, publishers and ad agencies share responsibility for ads that appear next to misinformation.
A quarter of those executives said misinformation about their brands and industries was the biggest risk to brand reputation.
Good personal experiences help to build trust in brands, while "bad" personalization can be destructive.
Sixty percent of Americans said brands need to publicize what they're doing in response to the Ukraine crisis.
Advertisers thought they bought billions of ads on one Gannett site, but they were actually served on other ones, according to the research.
The finding may indicate that consumers are more receptive to contextual advertising.