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Can Kids' Advertising Cause Low Self Esteem?
However loudly advertising managers talk about ‘creativity’ and ‘education’, there’s only one reason brands advertise to kids – to persuade...
Children Alcohol Advertising
It may be revealing about our national character that, although tobacco advertising has long since been banned from our TV screens, ads for alcohol remain part of...
Children and Cigarette Promotion
In the UK at least, the golden age of tobacco advertising, when marketers could sponsor film stars to smoke their brands while running print ads that promoted the...
Fast Food Advertising and Kids
Are our children getting fatter? A brief look at current statistics seems to confirm that they are. For example, in Bristol one in five children can be classified as...
Kids' Advertising and Gender Roles
Well-meaning parents who try to get girls interested in army figures (or their sons playing with dolls) will soon realise that certain gender traits appear to be...
Regulating New Media: UK Council for Child Internet Safety
Many parents now realise that the media landscape in which they grew up is being changed forever by the next wave of young consumers. For the...
The ASA: Concerns About TV Ads For Gory Console Games
It seems like, for now at least, the UK video games' industry can breathe a sigh of relief. A 2009 report conducted by British advertising...
