Singapore – Integral Ad Science (IAS) has announced that it will offer its industry-aligned misinformation brand safety and suitability reporting for advertisers running campaigns across YouTube ad inventory. With this, IAS can now detect content across YouTube that it identifies as misinformation enabling advertisers to further verify the safety and suitability of their digital media investments on YouTube.
IAS’s ‘Total Media Quality’ (TMQ) product suite provides valuable third-party assurance that advertisers’ campaigns are running adjacent to brand safe and suitable content. IAS’s misinformation measurement delivers independent verification, complementary to YouTube’s own policies and procedures.
It is worth noting that IAS classifies content according to industry-aligned definitions and provides reporting based on advertisers’ custom brand suitability settings. Video-level reporting provided by IAS allows advertisers to get a full, accurate picture of the content their ads are running adjacent to, and adjust their campaigns based on their own desired suitability profiles.
With this, advertisers can gain trusted video-level insights into the content adjacent to their advertisements according to industry-aligned definitions, analyse if the ads appear next to content identified by IAS as misinformation and make optimisations as needed to drive brand suitability, and access global reporting with more than 30 languages on YouTube for key international events in 2024 and beyond.
Lisa Utzschneider, CEO of IAS, said, “Brand safety is a top priority for marketers as we approach upcoming marquee global media events. We are empowering marketers with enhanced products like our expanded Total Media Quality for YouTube which now offers IAS’s misinformation reporting. We’re excited to offer the ability to detect misinformation with our best-in-class measurement solution.”
In March, IAS announced earning MRC accreditation for integrated third-party calculation and reporting of YouTube video viewability. In December 2023, IAS announced the availability of its Total Media Quality (TMQ) brand safety and suitability measurement across YouTube Shorts, offering advertisers expanded coverage for advanced brand safety and suitability measurement.
