A brand safety watchdog wants to galvanize ad tech vendors to save publishers from MFA classification

Publishers affiliated with the trade organization the Brand Safety Institute are lobbying leading measurement firms to better help them understand how such platforms flag MFA content, Digiday has learned.

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