Ukraine invasion exposes balancing act of brand responsibility in advertising

To run or not to run: advertisers, ad tech and publishers grapple with the right ways to market in wartime news coverage.
March 02, 2022

Russia’s war on Ukraine is forcing advertisers to think long and hard about where is and isn’t acceptable for their ads to run. As a result, news publishers are not seeing ad revenues grow despite upticks in traffic. Read more below.

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To run or not to run: advertisers, ad tech and publishers grapple with the right ways to market in wartime news coverage.

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