TikTok Announces New Brand Safety and Suitability Partners

TikTok has introduced a new set of official measurement partners, which is able to present third-party information on TikTok adverts placement and efficiency, so as to present extra reassurance to advert companions.

As per TikTok:

“In the present day, the TikTok Marketing Partners Program is proud to announce its first group of badged Measurement Partners with a brand new specialty in Brand Safety and Suitability: DoubleVerify, Integral Advert Science (IAS) and Zefr. All three companions have constructed options that assist to safeguard promoting on TikTok in order that entrepreneurs can have extra confidence that their model campaigns will run adjoining to brand-suitable content material that displays the business requirements set by the World Alliance for Accountable Media (GARM).”

TikTok advertisers have been working with these suppliers to measure their campaigns over the previous few years, however now, TikTok is formally endorsing them, and working with every to enhance their respective course of.

The three measurement suppliers additionally work with Meta and YouTube to offer the identical assurance, which, as TikTok notes, allows advertisers to make sure that their promotions don’t seem alongside doubtlessly offensive materials, as outlined by their very own considerations on this entrance.

Which is vital, as a result of whereas TikTok is massively common, there have been famous considerations with some content material. Dangerous challenges are one consideration on this respect, whereas a newer development, referred to as the Foopah Challenge, noticed customers exposing themselves briefly of their clips.

Studies have additionally prompt that TikTok can spotlight conspiracy theories and misinformation at occasions, and these new partnerships will assist advertisers keep away from any doubtlessly dangerous affiliation with such.

Along with this, TikTok additionally says that it’s labored with these companions to develop a brand new system to enhance measurement ‘throughout important volumes of content material’.
“This offers manufacturers with impartial third-party visibility into the kind of content material surrounding their TikTok promoting. Over the past yr, DoubleVerify, IAS, and Zefr have collectively supported a whole lot of TikTok advertisers and measured greater than 26 billion impressions in over 20 languages.”

It’s a very good transfer from TikTok, which has come below extra scrutiny in latest months over each its content material, and its connection to the CCP. Certainly, EU officers have now referred to as for Authorities representatives to remove TikTok from their devices, whereas UK officers at the moment are additionally calling for the same.

The corporate’s ties to China are a separate concern to content material points, however amid this, it is smart for TikTok to be as open and clear as it could.