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Children’s App Reviews: Does Money Talk? Part Three

September 9, 2015 by Amy Jussel 6 Comments

Sept. 9, 2015 It’s been an insightful, wild ride learning about the kids app industry...from the “Inside, Out.” In Part One we talked about the imperative need for transparency and media literacy … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Branding & Consumerism Tagged With: App Apes, app developers, app reviewers, Apps & Gaming .com disclosures, apps for kids, Balefire Labs, best kids apps, children's app reviews, content marketing kids apps, Digital Storytime, edtech, expedited reviews, Fingerprint, FTC disclosure law, FTC endorsement guidelines, Jill Goodman, journalism ethics, kids app review sites, Libby Curran, media bias kids apps, media conflict of interest, media influencers, media-literacy, Mobile Media, moms with apps, native ads, native advertising, Native Brain, new media journalism, Otus, paid app reviews, paid posts in kids apps, paid review sites, paid to review, paid vs unpaid app reviews, parenting digital, payola, Reading Train, sponsored content kids apps, teachers with apps, Tech with Kids

Children’s App Reviews: Does Money Talk? Part Two

August 27, 2015 by Amy Jussel 12 Comments

Aug. 27, 2015 “I can make or break you” may sound more like a line from Good Fellas than a children’s app review site, but the skullduggery and reticent storytelling seeping out of the industry cracks … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Mobile Media, Apps & Gaming Tagged With: .com disclosures, app developers, app reviewers, apps for kids, best kids apps, children's app reviews, content marketing kids apps, expedited reviews, FTC disclosure law, journalism ethics, kids app review sites, media bias kids apps, media conflict of interest, media influencers, media-literacy, native ads, new media journalism, paid posts in kids apps, paid review sites, paid to review, parenting digital, payola, sponsored content kids apps

Children’s App Reviews: Does Money Talk?

August 4, 2015 by Amy Jussel 10 Comments

August 4, 2015 Lately I’ve been deluged by email solicitations to publish "sponsored content," turning down so many advertising requests that I now have a template reply that goes something like … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Media Literacy, Mobile Media, Apps & Gaming Tagged With: .com disclosures, app developers, apps for kids, best kids apps, children's app reviews, content marketing kids apps, expedited reviews, FTC disclosure law, FTC endorsement guidelines, journalism ethics, kids app review sites, media bias kids apps, media conflict of interest, media influencers, media-literacy, native ads, native advertising, new media journalism, paid posts in kids apps, paid review sites, paid to review, parenting digital, payola, sponsored content kids apps

Man Down? Girl Up, Rihanna. Own Your Influence.

June 6, 2011 by Amy Jussel 12 Comments

June 6, 2011 We interrupt our positive picks programming to hand over a pail and a scrub brush so parents can prep for the latest mop up of "young and the RECKLESS"... This week in Rihanna Redux, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Branding & Consumerism, Damaging Drek, Emerging trends & STEM, Growing up too soon, Marketing Shaping Youth, Media Literacy, Misogyny & Racism, People Shaping Youth, Shaping Youth, Stereotypes & Diversity, Viral & Buzz Media Tagged With: Amy-Jussel, Baiting Outrage, BET, Center for Media and Childrens health, children media violence, dating violence, do no harm, domestic violence, DV, Elin Waldal, Hollywood health, Industry Ears, Kanye Monster, KFF.org, Love is not abuse, Love is respect, Love the way you lie, Man Down, media influencers, MTV Movie Awards, music influencers, National Domestic Violence Hotline, NDVH, Pop-Culture, pop-culture-icons, PTC, rape crisis, Reese Witherspoon, Rihanna, Rihanna Eminem, Safe Youth, sexual assault, TDV, teen dating violence, teens, Tornado Warning, violence

FCC: Kids Programming Is Laden With Product Placement

October 22, 2008 by Amy Jussel 10 Comments

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