Brand Safety & Suitability

Brand Safety & Suitability Overview

The Brand Safety classes are mapped to the GARM Brand Safety & Suitability Framework (Global Alliance for Responsible Media), which was defined as part of a cross-industry initiative established by the World Federation of Advertisers to address the challenge of harmful content on digital media platforms and its monetization via advertising. Hive has committed to building out additional class support in our Visual Content Moderation Suite to power this framework. These GARM classes are defined in Hive's Visual Content Moderation suite through the presence of visual cues pertinent to the GARM framework's classes. The classes below refer to the image-based API; support for text and audio are available separately.

Note on Brand Suitability API: Brand Suitability ratings are available by request for each of these Brand Safety classes. Brand Suitability classifies the risk level in four tiers: low, medium, high, and floor. Floor risk is defined as content not suitable for any advertiser, whereas High and Medium risk is suitable for only certain advertisers depending on type of risk and risk tolerance.

Supported Brand Safety Classes

IAB Unique ID	Class Name	Examples of Visual Cues
Rm3SiT	Rm3SiT-adult_and_explicit_sexual_content-hive_garm_iab	genitalia, sexual activity, nudity, buttocks, sex toys
avbNf2	avbNf2-arms_and_ammunition-hive_garm_iab	guns, knives, and guns-in-use
I4GWl6	I4GWl6-death_injury_or_military_conflict-hive_garm_iab	gore, blood, hanging, military conflict
HxqYV1	HxqYV1-hate_speech_and_acts_of_aggression-hive_garm_iab	kkk imagery, nazi imagery
j9PaO9	j9PaO9-obscenity_and_profanity-hive_garm_iab	middle finger
pg0WhF	pg0WhF-illegal_drugs_tobacco_ecigarettes_vaping_alcohol-hive_garm_iab	pilled or powdered drugs; tobacco, marijuana, or vaping paraphernalia
8FD8nI	8FD8nI-terrorism-hive_garm_iab	ISIS symbol imagery
Not Applicable*	9010-suggestive_sexual_content-hive	nude or suggestive content (swimwear, underwear, shirtless-ness)

*The Suggestive Sexual Content class is a custom Hive class included to supplement the Brand Safety & Suitability. It is not included in the IAB taxonomy and GARM frameworks.

Expected Output

For each frame delivered, the API will return a response for each class. Each class will have a value from 0 to 1, indicating the confidence level of the classification.