Ad industry’s mania for ‘brand safety’ in news has been a massive con

Advertisers should bin blocklists on trusted news sites after research showed that brands advertising next to hard-hitting journalism had no negative impact, the former editor-in-chief of the Mirror says.

by Alison Phillips

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