ambient advertising

Public Health: DV Grammys, Too Short Of A Memory, Sexualization

February 29, 2012 by Amy Jussel 16 Comments

Update Feb. 12, 2016 With the 2016 Grammys coming up this weekend, I wanted to add two posts by the author of The Achilles Effect and Boys, Sex & Media as a ponderable question about what we're choosing to honor and award with media messaging and masculinity. Without vilifying an entire genre, specific artist, or lyrics lens (not interested in uncorking a censorship convo; … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Advertising, Branding & Consumerism, Consumerism, Damaging Drek, Emerging trends & STEM, Growing up too soon, Marketing Shaping Youth, Media Literacy, Misogyny & Racism, People Shaping Youth, Sexualization & Body Image, Shaping Youth, Stereotypes & Diversity, Vapid Values, Viral & Buzz Media Tagged With: abusive relationships, Am I Ugly videos, ambient advertising, APA Task force, Chris Brown Grammys, depravity, Disposable conscience of consumer society, domestic violence, Drake, DV, Elin Waldal, Grammys, grammys 2016, Hip-Hop, How short is our memory, kids at risk, Love is not abuse, Love is respect, media influence, media-literacy, misogyny, Monster High sexualization, music industry influence on kids, payola, Pop culture impact on kids, rape culture, Rihanna and Chris Brown remix, second hand smoke, sexual assault, sexual-health-teens, Sexualization, social change, TDV, teen dating violence, Tornado Warning, Tumblr policy change, violence prevention, XXL Too Short

Redefining Beauty, Reclaiming Yourself: Backtalking Billboards!

July 29, 2011 by Amy Jussel 20 Comments

July 29, 2011 Do you feel the rumble of the “I’m mad as hell and not gonna take it anymore” massive mindshifting among young women talking back to the ad industry and media machine? The “Take Back Beauty” and ‘reclaim yourself’ pushback of multiple generations of females throwing open the windows for their Howard Beale Network shoutout moment to end the nonsense of pore-less … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Advertising, Branding & Consumerism, Consumerism, Counter-marketing, Emerging trends & STEM, Growing up too soon, Marketing Shaping Youth, Media Literacy, Nutrition & Wellness, People Shaping Youth, Positive Picks, Pro-Social & Positive Picks, Sexualization & Body Image, Shaping Youth Tagged With: About-Face, Airbrushing, ambient advertising, Amy-Jussel, augemented reality Times Square, Be Body Positive Day, beauty ideal, beauty myth, beauty pageants Australia, Beauty Reclaimed, Beauty Redefined, billboard campaign, body loathing, body-positive, Cinderella Ate My Daughter, digital enhancement, Dove Evolution, fat-hating, girl caught, girls-self-worth, Good Girls Don't Get Fat, Healthy Media Youth Act, Kite sisters, L'oreal ads banned, Lexie and Lindsay Kite, Packaging-Girlhood, Peggy Orenstein, photoshopping, Pop culture impact on kids, Powered By Girl, Promoting Healthy Media Images, Reclaim beauty, selling insecurities for profit, spark change, The Illusionists Documentary, Using the power of media for positive change, Utah billboards, women and girls in the media

KFC’s “Assvertising”–A Double Down of Unhealthy Cues

September 22, 2010 by Amy Jussel 3 Comments

September 22, 2010 Would you like a sideorder of sexualization with that heart attack? If the excess sodium from KFC’s Double Down innuendo-laden sat fat monstrosity doesn’t raise your risk factor for high blood pressure, ergo cardiovascular disease, heart failure, kidney disease, and stroke, then the college co-eds selling their buns for the bunless will surely jolt and … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Advertising, Branding & Consumerism, Consumerism, Damaging Drek, Emerging trends & STEM, Growing up too soon, Marketing Shaping Youth, Media Literacy, Product Placement, Sexualization & Body Image, Shaping Youth, Stereotypes & Diversity, Vapid Values, Viral & Buzz Media Tagged With: AHA, ambient advertising, American Apparel, Amy-Jussel, Andre Blackman, APA report early sexualization, assvertising, best bottom contest, Body Blitz, bottom feeders, bottoms, boys into monsters, brand-ambassadors, bunless, buns, butts, CCFC, College co-eds, college girls, commodification, CSPI, date rape drugs, Double Down, DoubleDown, DV of sodium, ethics, fast food, frat boys, FTC, girls, girls-self-worth, gluteus ad maximus, heart attacks, Human-billboards, IOM, junk-food, KFC, kidney disease, Kids health, meat marketing, Media-Influence-Kids, mental health, Pornification, public health, rape, rent your backside, Salt assault, salt intake, self-esteem girls, sex sells, sexploitation, Sexualization, Sexualization & Body Image, So Sexy So Soon, socioemotional health, sodium, SPARK! summit, spokesbutts, stroke, teens, youth

Sony May Singe Itself: Slimy Innuendo Ignites Backdraft

September 2, 2010 by Amy Jussel 6 Comments

September 2, 2010 Without a doubt, guerrilla marketing campaigns can be effective disruptors as well as clever marketing and teaching tools for advertising AND media literacy. But what happens when “attention” trumps common sense and branding ethics like this Sony ambient ad campaign? Its proliferation is akin to the “Captive” audience billboard debacle awhile back. As … [Read more...]

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Will Internet Ads Become The Leaf Blowers Of Digital Media?

May 21, 2009 by Amy Jussel Leave a Comment

May 21, 2009 Seguing from the clever Google search logos and their homepage fun to this one at left from "Ask"...I must "ask" dear readers...Who would like to join me in a childish, lip-fluttering raspberry on behalf of ad creep and product proliferation? I mean, c'mon, really...selling off your own homepage search screen to blitz tomorrow’s premiere of Night at the Museum … [Read more...]

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