If you’re struggling to make sense of all this, MMA Global just released a brand safety and suitability guide which is designed to help. You might also check out this DoubleVerify survey that shows publishers see brand safety and contextual targeting as high-priority ad sales tools.
On the brand safety front, supply side platform Pubmatic is the latest firm to apply website trustworthiness ratings from NewsGuard. Buyers will be able to set a “misinformation floor” on the quality of sites they purchase. Meanwhile, data quality rating service Neutronian has certified the cookie-free status of DoubleVerify, which itself helps companies monitor ad viewability and brand safety. Neutronian also announced the first release of its NQI Transparency Ratings Report, which rates the transparency and data quality of 150 top marketing data providers.
American digital infrastructure company, Equinix, has announced that it is acquiring MainOne, a West African data centre and connectivity solutions provider with a presence in Nigeria, Ghana and the Ivory Coast at the rate of $320 million (N131.6 billion).
Microsoft has confirmed that Reddit has blocked its Bing search engine from crawling content; Reddit seems to have blocked DuckDuckGo too. Reddit content will still appear in Google search results, but then Google has paid Reddit $60 million to allow it to train its AI models on that content. Reddit says the block has nothing to do with the Google deal: okay.