Google is promising that real people will screen all YouTube videos that may potentially carry ads for its top spending marketers. The vetting is for Google Preferred, the company’s four-year-old ad offering that enables marketers to run ads only in the top 5% of YouTube channels in terms of popularity.
The human-labor-intensive promise is the latest response by the Alphabet-owned video giant to the non-stop noise regarding digital advertising and ‘brand safety.’ It will take effect by mid February in the US and mid March for the rest of the world.
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Phillip Picardi will lead Teen Vogue after Elaine Welteroth's departure, Glossy reports. Condé Nast announced Welteroth was stepping down in an internal memo to staff members last Thursday, coming just eight months after she was elevated to editor-in-chief and two months after the magazine decided to shutter its print edition.
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