Brand Safety Has Moved Upstream of Media

For the past two decades, brand safety meant controlling adjacency.

Was our ad placed next to inappropriate content? Did our brand appear alongside misinformation? Were we associated with publishers or creators that created reputational risk?

This model assumed three things:

Media intermediaries existed Placement could be audited Exposure left a durable trace Those assumptions are no longer reliable.

AI assistants now mediate how people understand brands before any media surface is reached.

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