for happier, healthier cities
Lots of developments in ad land this month, with the long-awaited junk food ad ban coming into force on TV and online, and the excellent news that Amsterdam has banned fossil fuel and meat advertising in public spaces. Read on for our take on these, as well as great actions from allies, and opportunities to take action yourself this month….Continue reading Adfree Cities’ January newsletter
Adfree Cities submitted a complaint to the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) against adverts for McDonald’s Big Arch. You can read our complaint here.UPDATE: The ASA has confirmed that they will not be investigating our complaint – showing that under the current weak national regulations, corporations like McDonald’s are free to advertise excessively unhealthy food in…Continue reading Advertising doesn’t help you choose – it limits you (and that’s the point)
Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the last two weeks, you will almost certainly have seen ads from Amazon promoting Black Friday, that annual festival of consumerism. This is unsurprising: Amazon is the UK’s largest spender on advertising….Continue reading Unboxing Black Friday ads: the true cost of total control
Residents in Bristol have a chance to submit their views on a planning application for a large new advertising screen proposed for the Eastgate area. Update 13 March 2025: this planning application has been refused by Bristol City Council. Thanks to everyone who submitted your views. In addition to the 157 objections received from local…Continue reading In Bristol, object to a new advertising screen proposed for Eastgate
Large, heavy sports utility vehicles (SUVs) are seemingly everywhere on our streets today. And so too are SUV adverts, cropping up in bus stops, on billboards, even on train station platforms. SUVs are bad news. Their size makes them much more dangerous to other road users, especially pedestrians and cyclists. A child hit by an…Continue reading Adfree Cities joins Alliance for safer, fairer streets without SUVs.
If aliens landed in a typical UK city centre in the run up to Christmas, they’d be forgiven for concluding that meat was the only food option available to us humans. Everywhere you turned in December there were adverts featuring ‘festive’ burgers, enormous cooked turkeys and hams, even processed chicken dressed up like Christmas stockings….Continue reading “Distract, delay, derail”: the tactics of meat and dairy advertising