Pinterest is Now TAG Brand Safety Certified

Pinterest has been awarded the model security certification from the Reliable Accountability Group (TAG), a company that works to extend belief and transparency in digital promoting by preventing towards legal exercise on-line. This can be a nice achievement for Pinterest in addition to a constructive signal for manufacturers promoting on the platform or for these contemplating it as a part of their advertising and marketing technique within the close to future.

Mike Zaneis, the CEO of TAG marks:

“By attaining TAG Model Security Licensed standing, Pinterest has demonstrated its dedication to defending its companions and customers by adopting business greatest practices towards inappropriate advert placement and different model security threats,”

To earn the “TAG Model Security Licensed” standing that extends throughout APAC, Europe, Latin America and North America, Pinterest needed to meet rigorous requirements:

1. All of their digital promoting agreements have to stick to TAG’s Model Security Rules.

2. 100% of monetizable transactions on the platform are reviewed by way of “inclusion and exclusion lists,” as outlined of their digital promoting agreements.

3. Clear documentation of insurance policies and procedures to attenuate the danger of advert misplacement. This might embody something from employees, instruments and know-how used to evaluation and flag content material to the processes and procedures used to figuring out inclusion and exclusion lists to confirm content material as model protected.

4. The model has a TAG compliance officer and attends TAG annual coaching.

Close to the tip of 2020, Pinterest joined the International Alliance for Accountable Media and has been advocating extra for model and client security. Pinterest has additionally launched a devoted Model Security Hub that outlines the platform’s multi-year efforts to maintain making Pinterest a protected place for manufacturers. No surprise 91% of individuals say they see Pinterest as a constructive place. In Pinterest’s phrases, they imagine you “cannot really feel impressed with out feeling protected first.”

For manufacturers, this implies they’ll strategy the platform with confidence as they search for a dependable house to market their enterprise. Even with out this certificates, Pinterest stays a strong social media community for manufacturers as 2 out of three individuals say they go to Pinterest to search out new services they belief.

Will probably be attention-grabbing to see what the subsequent steps for Pinterest shall be of their transparency and security efforts, however for now this certification provides Pinterest the crown over different platforms.