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An advert for vaping retailer Elf Bar has been banned by the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) today for making misleading green claims and for highlighting an environmental benefit that resulted from a legal obligation….Continue reading Elf Bar vaping ads BANNED following Adfree Cities complaint
Fresh from their victory against Toyota SUV ads that promoted irresponsible off-road driving, the creatures of the forest took to the streets to call for an end to all advertising for environmentally destructive SUVs. …Continue reading Adfree Cities and friends protest to End SUV Ads
In a landmark move, the UK advertising watchdog has banned Toyota’s “Born to Roam” SUV adverts for encouraging driving that harms nature and the environment. The ad, promoted on outdoor ad sites and online, showed dozens of large, diesel Toyota SUVs driving off-road through natural environments, including rivers. …Continue reading Environmentally “irresponsible” Toyota SUV ads banned
The ZAP Games is well underway. Activists across the UK and Europe are taking to the streets in a festival of creative responses to Black Friday. Here we’ve collected some of the best images so far to entertain and inspire you. …Continue reading In pictures: ZAP Games 2023
Whilst bagging household goods at discount prices is welcome – especially in a cost of living crisis – Black Friday turns the dial up to 11, warping our need into excess. The consequences for our health, workers rights, and the environment have been well documented, even back in the 1950s….Continue reading Behind the Black Friday Ads
Cardiff Council recently received applications to site five ‘communications hubs’ at five locations in the city centre. The applications claim that these hubs will provide “a range of services that include free ultrafast Wi-Fi, free phone calls to landlines and charities, defibrillator, wayfinding, device charging, rapid connection to emergency services, public messaging capabilities, and a…Continue reading Adblock Cardiff need your help to oppose new digital advertising boards in our city!