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The intensive animal farming industry works with advertisers to sell misleading and deceptive stories about meat, eggs and dairy, keeping us in a state of ignorance about the food we consume. We need to break free, and to do so we need to recognise how adverts are playing on our own propensity to turn away….Continue reading How meat adverts stole our empathy
Watch: Henry from Adblock Bristol emerges from an onslaught of advertising messages with a better message for you: we can create cities free from outdoor ads together. Read on below for three actions you can take right now. 3 actions you can take right now: 1. Submit a complaint about Clear Channel’s ‘Platform For Good’…Continue reading How to create Adfree Cities: 3 actions you can take today
The government’s ‘levelling up’ agenda is all about addressing injustices and imbalances between communities across the UK. We know that outdoor advertising deepens inequalities. Its negative impacts are felt most by people and communities who are more vulnerable, and our emerging research indicates that outdoor advertising is concentrated in less affluent areas. But the planning…Continue reading Levelling up consultation: let’s help all neighbourhoods be ad-free, not just the privileged ones
Two digital billboards that tower over the M32 motorway on the approach into Bristol are about to run out of planning permission, and residents are calling for their removal. The billboards were granted permission in 2016 and 2017 respectively, for an initial period of five years. Now that this time is coming to an end,…Continue reading ‘This is Bristol, not Bladerunner’ – Local residents demand removal of huge, invasive digital advertising screens
Residents near North Street Green are calling for two huge billboards to be removed. They want to get rid of the big corporate adverts and create a new improved vision for this valued green space, with the local community at its heart. North Street Green is on the border between Bedminster and Southville and makes…Continue reading Better without billboards: residents want North Street Green’s big brand ads to go
by Simon Davis A vibrant new artwork inviting our appreciation of Bristol’s very own Angela Francis, has taken pride of place at Adblock Bristol’s Burg Arts billboard in St Werburghs. Angela’s friend and fellow artist Grace Kress (Shelby x studios) has playfully depicted Angela in her DJ Lady Gee persona. The piece celebrates the remarkable…Continue reading You are appreciated: celebrating grassroots revolutionaries