TikTok Announces New Brand Safety and Suitability Partners
TikTok has announced a new set of official measurement partners, which will provide third-party data on TikTok ads placement and performance, in order to provide more reassurance to ad partners.
As per TikTok:
“Today, the TikTok Marketing Partners Program is proud to announce its first group of badged Measurement Partners with a new specialty in Brand Safety and Suitability: DoubleVerify, Integral Ad Science (IAS) and Zefr. All three partners have built solutions that help to safeguard advertising on TikTok so that marketers can have more confidence that their brand campaigns will run adjacent to brand-suitable content that reflects the industry standards set by the Global Alliance for Responsible Media (GARM).”
TikTok advertisers have been working with these providers to measure their campaigns over the past few years, but now, TikTok is officially endorsing them, and working with each to improve their respective process.
The three measurement providers also work with Meta and YouTube to provide the same assurance, which, as TikTok notes, enables advertisers to ensure that their promotions don’t appear alongside potentially offensive material, as defined by their own concerns on this front.
Which is important, because while TikTok is hugely popular, there have been noted concerns with some content. Dangerous challenges are one consideration in this respect, while a more recent trend, called the Foopah Challenge, saw users exposing themselves briefly in their clips. Read More…