Two pictures side by side one showing a roundabout with a car passing a broken down billboard and another one that seems derelict. The other picture shows a CGI generated image of the same area with seating and trees and no billboards

Does outdoor advertising make you feel proud of your neighbourhood?

Charlotte

For us at Adfree Cities, reducing outdoor advertising is all about creating happier, healthier communities, and giving local people – not distant corporations – more say over what their neighbourhoods look and feel like.  So we are very pleased to see the government’s new Pride in Place Strategy target exactly this: putting communities in control…Continue reading Does outdoor advertising make you feel proud of your neighbourhood?

Image shows two billboards. One has an ad for Mcdonald's, the other an ad for Sprite.

Junk food ad ban is a huge win – but don’t forget the billboards!

Adfree Cities

Adfree Cities welcomes the Government commitment to ban junk food ads, but not including outdoor advertising is a missed opportunity. The new government’s pledge in the King’s Speech to ban advertising for ‘junk foods’ – those high in fat, salt and sugar (HFSS) – before the TV watershed was long overdue, so we’re glad to…Continue reading Junk food ad ban is a huge win – but don’t forget the billboards!