Media regulators from around the world gathered this week in Dubrovnik, Croatia at the invitation of UNESCO and Croatia. This meeting resulted in the creation of a global network of regulators, to be hosted by UNESCO, which will coordinate the international response to the challenges posed by digital platforms. “Faced with global platforms, we need […]

Media regulator Ofcom has imposed a £40,000 (€46k) financial penalty on Islam Channel Ltd for serious and repeated breaches of its broadcasting rules. Islam Channel is an English-language satellite TV station airing religious instruction, current affairs, documentaries and entertainment programmes from an Islamic perspective. Ofcom said: “Our investigation found The Andinia Plan, a one-hour documentary […]

Consumers express a nuanced appreciation of the complexities of the brand safety decisions faced by advertisers, according to a new survey conducted by the digital advertising industry certification programme the Trustworthy Accountability Group (TAG) and digital advertising industry initiative Brand Safety Institute (BSI) among more than a thousand US adults via SurveyMonkey. For example, instead […]