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PRESS RELEASE: Public health campaigners have welcomed moves by Cardiff Council in Wales (UK) to restrict adverts for unhealthy, polluting and harmful products – but called for advertising by fossil fuel companies to also be restricted. Under the revised policy agreed by Cardiff Council’s cabinet on 18 September 2025, “adverts relating to violence, payday loans,…Continue reading Cardiff Council bans adverts for fossil powered vehicles
For the most recent update on Cardiff Council’s policy, see this September 2025 blog. Since our last win back in January 2024, Adblock Cardiff have remained busy campaigningagainst public advertising in Cardiff, with some notable successes! After positive discussions with Cardiff Council late last year, we submitted a set of recommendations for how they might…Continue reading Cardiff council restrict harmful ads
Back in November 2022, we wrote up details of a meeting held between volunteers from Adblock Cardiff, supported by our friends at Adfree Cities, and Cardiff Council’s cabinet member for strategic planning. We had requested the meeting with Cllr. Dan De’ath to set out our case for why unnecessary, wasteful and environmentally-damaging public advertising should…Continue reading Success for ‘ethical advertising’ in Cardiff
Today saw the UK media engage in their annual round of sycophancy about the John LewisChristmas advert, providing plenty of free publicity into the bargain which was obviously theretailer’s intent. But in a corner of Wales, something very interesting was happening to resistthe endless tide of corporate advertising. Volunteers from Adblock Cardiff, supported by our…Continue reading Could Cardiff have ad free streets?
Adblock Cardiff is a campaign to reclaim public space from corporate advertising, for the benefit of citizens and visitors to the capital city of Wales. They have been running since February 2019. The group also work on the negative aspects of advertising on our cities, the environment, and the health and wellbeing of our communities….Continue reading Adblock Cardiff