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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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Due to the war’s violence, carnage and human suffering flooding into the media space, marketers are concerned about the tone of their creative messaging as well as the context of where their ad appears.

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Brands don't need to become fully Web3-based companies, but Amanda Cassatt, of marketing agency Serotonin, believes starting the experimentation now will benefit the bottom line down the road.
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