Google faces up to advertiser boycott

Google could have been forgiven for thinking it had come away relatively unscathed in February after The Times published the initial results of its investigation into ads appearing next to extremist or unsavoury content. A few brands, such as Mercedes-Benz and Marie Curie, pulled advertising for a couple of days but they were soon back claiming the issue had been “fixed”.
But The Times was not done. Just days before Advertising Week Europe (AWE), one of London’s biggest ad indu