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You can receive the HTML5 creatives template source code by requesting it here. We aim to reply to all inquiries within 72 hours. You will then also receive a link to our License Terms, which contains style guidance as well.

You can use the creative templates as long as you adhere to the License Terms and the You can add your logo or imagery to the designated section in the templates.

Of course! We encourage any brand to consider doing so. Brands4News.org simply provides some ready-to-use creative templates and a selection of domain inclusion lists to help brands continue to fund quality journalism. We only ask you to adhere to our License Terms in case you use our resources, but in case you design your own you are free to do what you want.

Absolutely! Please find it here.

We have a strong network of designers and developers that can provide expert production support on a paid freelance basis. Please contact us here if you want to be connected to someone, we strive to reply within 72 hours to all inquiries.

We have made a start and will develop and expand the inclusion lists from here, meaning there might be missing domains that deserve to be included. We are an open-source initiative and rely on the community to help us grow from here. Please contact us here if you have any suggestions.

Absolutely! Please contact us here to submit your request. Please note that we cannot guarantee successful inclusion of your suggested domains, as we rely on a strict vetting process working with external partners, such as The Global Disinformation Index.

For more reach against quality journalism around the globe, please consider working with our partner organisation Ads For News to target engaged news audiences on more than 8,000 trusted local news websites from 30 countries. This is a non-profit organisation that provides free of charge domain lists to brands and agencies.

‍The Global Disinformation Index also offers rich directories of trusted publications against a fee, alongside their core solutions that help brands avoid disinformation content.

The Global Disinformation Index is a not-for-profit entity that exists to disrupt online disinformation. They provide independent, neutral and transparent data and intelligence to advise policymakers and business leaders about how to combat disinformation and its creators. Find out more here.

This depends on the domain, but in most cases the easiest and most efficient way to advertise is to contact the publisher directly or by using programmatic advertising. You should contact your agency or in-house teams to discuss setting up your campaigns. In case you are buying programmatically, please ensure you consider setting up an effective Supply Path Optimisation strategy to maximise the advertising spend that is received by the publisher. For more information about this, please contact our partner Jounce Media. We aim to create easy-to-target line items in major Demand Side Platforms (DSPs) that provide a single point of access through a deal ID targeting all the domains on the inclusion lists. This is currently work in progress.

The domain inclusion lists are intended to provide a safe and secure way to run ads on high quality news publications. We recommend turning off the pre-bid and post-bid ad blocking features of your ad verification provider when running Brands4News.org campaigns. Verification providers often use rudimentary keyword scanning to determine the safety of a web page; resulting in structural blocking of any article containing keywords such as {deaths} or {explosion}. We believe high quality journalism is never brand unsafe, but it can be less suitable for certain creatives (e.g. a campaign promotion explosive discounts can be very unfortunate against certain types of content), which is why we provide dedicated considerate creative templates.

Carbon emissions are a serious - yet often overlooked - problem in digital advertising. It is important for advertisers to consider the most optimal way to run their ad campaigns with minimal footprint, also when using the Brands4News.org creative templates and/or domain inclusion lists. We try to do our part by developing highly efficient HTML5 templates with a very low file size, and we recommend partnering with organisations such as Scope3 to optimise the digital advertising supply chain emissions and carry accountability for appropriate carbon offset and removal.