OpenSlate

JoAnna Foyle is getting pretty good at playing whack-a-mole. As soon as a brand safety problem emerges on a new digital media platform, Foyle‘s company helps improve the situation. OpenSlate, of which Foyle is chief operating officer, had already rolled out a service helping bring brand safety to YouTube and Facebook. Earlier this month, it […]

OpenSlate launched eight years ago to measure content as people began watching more than just linear TV. The goal was to translate nature and quality to advertisers and marketers in an unfamiliar content landscape – specifically on YouTube and Facebook, where brand safety has been an issue. At the end of last year, Nielsen took […]

The company that provides fine-tuned scores rating 600 million YouTube and Facebook videos for advertisers will soon expand its horizons beyond those two key platforms. OpenSlate’s Slate Score measures content quality, whilst the company also charts videos’ subject matter expertise and brand safety. In this video interview with Beet.TV, CEO Mike Henry says the company […]

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — When people think about “brand safety”, the extent to which it is possible to assess ad inventory for alignment with an ad buyer, they often tend to put the onus on the buyer itself. But don’t publishers also have a duty to better indicate the kinds of ad spots advertisers […]

Back in 2012, before the words “safe environment” for digital video became industry mantra, a company called Outrigger Media launched OpenSlate. It was a tool to help advertisers target the long tail of video production. Among other things, the company knew “there would come a time in an industry that got hyper focused on audience […]