The Ad Village promotes positive messages to children, replacing corporate sponsored advertisements. A membership-based AdTech company that disrupts online ads targeting children, replacing harmful ...

WASHINGTON -- In a child's buffet of food commercials, more than 40 percent of the dishes are candy, snacks and fast food. Nowhere to be found: fresh fruit, vegetables, poultry or seafood. For years, ...

The nation’s largest food companies say they will cut back on marketing unhealthy foods to children, proposing their own set of advertising standards after rejecting similar guidelines proposed by the ...

In a recent blog post, my friend Marion Nestle said, "It never occurred to me that we needed more research to prove that advertising to kids makes them want food products, pester their parents to buy ...

Marketing companies are targeting children on YouTube with advertising disguised as other content, an “unfair and deceptive” business practice, three privacy groups said in a complaint to the U.S.

The Association of National Advertisers has joined the legal fight against a Federal Communication Commission ruling that would limit online ads and promos for kids' TV shows. In a court filing the ...

Food ads for kids, and on-screen exposure to tobacco for adults, are still a thing. Two studies suggest that the little ones are bombarded with junk food commercials, and adults are stumbling over ...

Commercials promoting sugary breakfast cereals could be put on a strict diet under government guidelines urging food companies to limit marketing of unhealthy products to children. Under guidelines ...

A study conducted by the National Bureau of Economic Research has determined that a fast-food TV-ad ban for children's programming would reduce the number of overweight children aged 3 to 11 by 18%, ...