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Marketers will soon have more options at their disposal when advertising on YouTube, which said that it’s working with third-party brand-safety vendors like DoubleVerify and Integral Ad Science to assure marketers that their budgets won’t wind up paying for ads on violent, offensive or otherwise unsavory content. YouTube parent Google said it will work with […]

Major marketers’ ads have likely been showing up on or near YouTube videos promoting terrorism, neo-Nazi groups and other web content for a long time. So why has the brand-safety problem suddenly burst into the open, prompting big advertisers such as General Motors, Walmart, Verizon, AT&T and Johnson & Johnson to stop spending on YouTube […]

There are some in the ad industry who are likely a little gleeful about YouTube’s current state. For them, it’s rewarding to see such a dominant player fall. In some cases, the critics even benefit. That’s just part of the YouTube pile-on ever since major advertisers started freezing their spending on the video site because […]

Another wave of marketers has suspended advertising on YouTube or in some cases other Google properties in what’s shaping up as an unprecedented revolt against the world’s largest digital media player over ads placed with objectionable content. General Motors, Walmart, Pepsico and FX Networks on Friday joined brand marketers that include Johnson & Johnson, Verizon […]