Dec. 6, 2009 Samuel Johnson once said, “Our aspirations are our possibilities.” I love the limitless empowerment in the short phrase, so when I heard there was going to be a new online DIY craft show … [Read more...]
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Is There a Possibility the FCC Hasn’t Seen The Irony Here?
Filed Under: Advertising, Branding & Consumerism, Consumerism, Emerging trends & STEM, Marketing Shaping Youth, Media Literacy, Product Placement, Shaping Youth, Stereotypes & Diversity Tagged With: blurring the lines, branded entertainment, brands, CCFC, children, Cinderella, Clorox, Courtney Watkins, digital crafts show, digital-ads, Disney, DIY, eco, embedded ads, equality, ethics, Etsy, FCC, Feministing, FTC, Gender Portrayal, Gender Roles, girl guide, girls-self-worth, Jim Henson, Kids-Advertising, kids-advertising-regulations, maker faire, Makezine, Media-Influence-Kids, Muppets, O'Reilly media, online crafts, Pink Think, Possibility, Product Placement, Sara-Grimes, Sara-M.-Grimes, spring cleaning, The Possibility Shop, toxic cues to kids, webisode
FCC Chair Receives Our Coalition Letter on Product Placement

Sept. 24, 2009 Shaping Youth is part of this coalition (15pp pdf here) joining over 50 signatories on "FCC Docket 08-90." As a nonpartisan, non-censorship, nonprofit recall I support two key … [Read more...]
Filed Under: Advertising, Branding & Consumerism, Consumerism, Emerging trends & STEM, Growing up too soon, Marketing Shaping Youth, Media Literacy, Product Placement, Shaping Youth, Vapid Values Tagged With: ad regulations, ad-creep, American-Idol, big pharma, broadcasting, Buyology, CCFC, children, democracy, disclosure standards, DVR, embedded ads, ethics, fake news, FCC, FCC Coalition, FCC Docket 08-90, FCC-Product-Placement-Coalition, Integrated Marketing, intrusive ads, junk food ads, Kids, Martin Lindstrom, Media, Michael Rich, Nancy Marsden, NCLI, news team product placement, Nielsen reports, One Tree Hill, Product Placement, public health, regulatory measures, stealth ads, Tivo, TV Product Placement, Vapid Values, watchdogs
FCC: Kids Programming Is Laden With Product Placement

That’s my official FCC filing at left, (squeaked in under the deadline today, explained why later) which emphatically states kids should be OFF LIMITS to embedded ads designed to bypass the Tivo … [Read more...]
Filed Under: Advertising, Branding & Consumerism, Consumerism, Emerging trends & STEM, Marketing Shaping Youth, Media Literacy, Nutrition & Wellness, Product Placement, Shaping Youth Tagged With: ad-creep, advergaming, American-Idol, Better For You products, BFY, brandwashing, children, Childrens Television Act, coffee cups, commercialism, common sense, corporate pedophilia, cwickies, DigitalAds.org, discernment, embedded ads, FCC, FCC safeguards, FCC-Integrated-Marketing-Rules, FCC-product-placement, free speech, Girls Intelligence Agency, Happy Feet, Hard sell to kids, industry accountability, JustKid Inc., Kids, McDonalds, Media 3.0, media influencers, media-literacy, name-dropping, news team product placement, peer to peer influence, plotline ad integration, product integration, product shills, psychological tactics, Rounders, social-media, Spongebob, sponsorships, street teams, teens, Theraflu, Tremor, tweens, Virtual-Worlds, vulnerability