Aug. 6, 2013 Update! Honored to be accurately quoted in this pithy parenting prose by Heidi Stevens in The Chicago Tribune's thrilled to see all the parenting pushback on Twitter that CCFC put together in this 'Storify' synopsis! (New York Times also covered CCFC's efforts here) Keep at it, families...save our traditions and narratives from marketing greed!July 22, 2013 It’s … [Read more...]
The Tooth Fairy Is Not A Brand. Parents…Arise!
Filed Under: Branding & Consumerism Tagged With: ADA, Amy-Jussel, baby teeth, backdoor branding, brandwashing, CCFC, child exploitation, childhood rites of passage, children’s icons, Commercialization of Childhood, Consumerism, corporate accountability, corporate profiteering, dentists, direct marketing to kids, Disney Dia de los Muertos, Disney-Princesses, Equestria Girls, family narratives, Gender Portrayal, Hasbro, imagination, imaginative play, Mattel, media siege, media-literacy, My Little Pony rebranding, Official Real Tooth Fairy Dentist, parenting peeves, parents under siege, Pinkification, Pop culture impact on kids, princess culture, Save the Tooth Fairy, sexploitation, sexualization of children, Stop Corporate Abuse, storytelling, The Real Tooth Fairies, The Tooth Fairy, toy industry complicity, trademarking a holiday, trust breach, unethical marketing, Vapid Values
REVERB Rocks The Eco-Concert Scene: Green Teens?
Update: April 20, 2012 With Outlands SF tickets going on sale yesterday and Earth Day on Sunday, it's the perfect time to 'show and tell' why concerts are the perfect venue to teach stewardship of the planet. Think of all the waste...now do something about it. TerraCycle is a fave for the 'hard to recycle' stuff, especially in SCHOOLS and CONCERTS. Original post: August … [Read more...]
Filed Under: Advertising, Branding & Consumerism, EcoKids-Environment, Emerging trends & STEM, Marketing Shaping Youth, Media Literacy, Mobile Media, Apps & Gaming, Positive Picks, Pro-Social & Positive Picks, Product Placement, Shaping Youth Tagged With: 21st century concert experience, Advertising, aging, antitrust, audience engagement, Black Eyed peas, Bridge School Benefit, carbon offsets, child exploitation, Dave Welsh, Digital, DMB, eco, eco rideshare, ecorazzi, entertainment, environmental, fans, Fergie, green concerts, Green-Teens, Grey's Anatomy, growing older with concerts, guitarist, Hawaii, hipster, How to Save a Life, Isaac Slade, Live Nation, merchandising, merger, mobile, New Media Academies, OxFamAmerica, participatory texting, Peapod Foundation, PickupPal, power of big media, renewable energy, REVERB, reverbrock.org, rock concerts, Save the Music Foundation, SMS Text, social justice, Stonyfield Farm, sustainable economies, that was then this is now, The Fray, The Killers, Ticketmaster, VH1, youth, Zippo lighter app