On a sunny Saturday, Adblockers from across the UK gathered in Bristol for a day of planning, skill sharing and network building. …Continue reading Adblock AGM 2024
More billboards in poorer areas of Leeds is a problem – here’s what we can do about it.
By Loup, Diana and Sarah, organisers with Adblock Leeds To some it might come as no surprise that advertising billboards are overwhelmingly concentrated in neighbourhoods with more social deprivation, lower income and worse air pollution. Certainly the ad companies that put them there know it’s easier and cheaper to put a billboard in a part…Continue reading More billboards in poorer areas of Leeds is a problem – here’s what we can do about it.
We’re #BetterWithoutBillboards and it’s time MPs took action
On March 5, Adfree Cities hosted an event at Portcullis House, opposite the Houses of Parliament, to launch our new research on outdoor advertising and inequality for an audience of MPs and civil society (and Adblock groups!). …Continue reading We’re #BetterWithoutBillboards and it’s time MPs took action
Are digital billboards more dangerous for road users than paper ones?
The answer is simple: yes. However, applications to replace a paper billboard with a digital one regularly claim that “the replacement will be like-for-like” or that “there is no evidence that a digital billboard is more distracting than a paper advert”. The goal of this blog post is to debunk this myth. What does research…Continue reading Are digital billboards more dangerous for road users than paper ones?
Beyond a Bet: latest podcast episode looks at gambling advertising
The latest episode of the Message Recall podcast looks at gambling advertising….Continue reading Beyond a Bet: latest podcast episode looks at gambling advertising
Adblock Detectives on deemed consent ads
A lot of the outdoors advertising in Leeds never received approval through the planning portal. Instead, it appeared one day, it stayed long enough and after ten years received its legal status, under what is called “deemed consent”. In an initiative that we call “Adblock Detectives”, we screen the streets of Leeds for unauthorised ads…Continue reading Adblock Detectives on deemed consent ads