In today’s Digest, we cover Meta pulling out of the MRC audit and forfeiting its brand safety seal, Havas eyeing Dentsu’s global assets, and TikTok’s algorithm licensing sparking concern in the US.

As the ad industry evolves, what is the state of brand safety in 2025? We questioned a range of industry experts on the topic, gathering their insights on how advertisers can navigate it.   Does brand safety still matter?  We’ve been living through [...]

With growing demand for premium ad placements and trusted inventory, Novicue rolls out an essential audio inventory checklist to help advertisers secure the right inventory at the right price.  Inventory quality issues have been a major concern for advertisers for a [...]

Agentic AI is the new buzzword. The ad industry is embracing the technology, which goes a step further than generative AI, able to autonomously handle complex decision-making. But is it actually ready to run the show? The year of agentic [...]

In this column for ExchangeWire, Shirley Marschall grapples with the brand safety quandary, and how AI technology could be leading the industry down the path of weaponised addiction. We need to talk about brand safety. No, we actually need to rethink [...]

MarkApp, the high-growth ad tech company operating a full-stack exchange across CTV, mobile, and web, today (1st September, 2025) announced the launch of Pantheon’s AI Agent Stack. This new suite of five active AI agents transforms how advertisers plan, deliver, [...]

Emily Shaw, digital account director, The Kite Factory takes a look at why in an AI-heavy world, human expertise isn’t becoming obsolete—it’s becoming more valuable than ever...

Silverpush, the contextual intelligence company, today (11th June, 2025) announced the release of Silverpush Mirrors for TikTok, an AI-powered contextual intelligence solution that allows brands to plan, activate, and optimise brand-safe TikTok campaigns at scale.  Powered by the company’s award-winning contextual [...]

"Advertisers will simply never know what their campaign could have achieved" - in this op-ed, Tom Pickworth, Director of Technical Operations, Commercial, Mail Metro Media joins us to look at the brand safety discussion, and why advertisers are still shying [...]

Zefr, a global leader in brand suitability technology for social platforms, announced today the launch of its new Pre-Screen Exclusion List Solution for the Search Partner Network (SPN). This new offering enables advertisers to pre-screen and exclude domains across Google’s [...]