Author: Jillian Rhodes
Jillian is a New York attorney turned marketing strategist, specializing in brand safety, FTC guidelines, and risk mitigation for influencer programs. She consults for brands and agencies looking to future-proof their campaigns. Jillian is all about turning legal red tape into simple checklists and playbooks. She also never misses a morning run in Central Park, and is a proud dog mom to a rescue beagle named Cooper.
A CFO-ready escrow framework that protects creator payments from mid-campaign platform payout freezes and cash-flow chaos.
How to draft AI agent liability waivers when autonomous media-buying tools train on creator data without consent, plus compliance steps that hold up.
Heavy-handed script approval can turn brands into “endorsers” under FTC rules — here’s the legal line and how to stay behind it.
A practical compliance checklist for brands deploying AI shopping agents that recommend sponsored products without human review.
When platform AI labels and FTC disclosure rules disagree on one post, brands own the fallout — here’s the reconciliation framework.
Equity-for-content deals can trigger state securities law even without cash — here’s how brands should audit that exposure before it becomes an enforcement problem.
A creator contract clause template assigning FTC liability when AI tools auto-generate sponsored scripts, so brands don’t own someone else’s compliance failure.
A tiered internal escalation protocol catches undisclosed livestream shopping claims before they become costly FTC referrals.
The EU AI Act’s high-risk rules can quietly sweep in creator matching tools—here’s how brands should classify and de-risk them now.
A practical framework for auditing AI chatbot product recommendations against FTC endorsement standards before regulators or customers find the gap.