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Ypulse Offers Stimulus Package for Youth Marketing Mashup: 30% Off!

May 13, 2009 by Amy Jussel 5 Comments

May 13, 2009 Even big league marketers seem to be falling on tough times, as I just noticed Anastasia Goodstein has posted a “30% off” deal for the final weeks of registration for the 2009 Ypulse … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Advertising, Branding & Consumerism, Consumerism, Emerging trends & STEM, Growing up too soon, Marketing Shaping Youth, Media Literacy, Product Placement, Sexualization & Body Image, Shaping Youth, Stereotypes & Diversity Tagged With: 2009 Ypulse Youth Marketing Mashup, anti-censorship, Balancing safety and fun, BK, booty is booty, Burger King, CCFC, childrens advocacy, girls-self-worth, Izzy-Neis, Joe Kelly, Joi Podgorny, June 1-2 2009, Kids Online, measuring girls butts, mind pollution, objectification, Privo, Russ Klein, sexist ads, Spongebob, squarebutts, Stimulus Package, Susan Linn, tweens, Unconference, youth-marketing, YPulse

When It’s Not Hip To Be Square: Sexist Spongebob & Burger Shots

April 17, 2009 by Amy Jussel 25 Comments

April 17, 2009 “Booty is booty?” I say give BK’s agency a boot in the backside out the door for this one… I've been trying NOT to cover this ad absurdity to avoid the media baiting and instead … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Advertising, Branding & Consumerism, Consumerism, Damaging Drek, Marketing Shaping Youth, Media Literacy, Misogyny & Racism, Nutrition & Wellness, Product Placement, Sexualization & Body Image, Shaping Youth, Stereotypes & Diversity, Vapid Values, Viral & Buzz Media Tagged With: AdFreak, apple fries, apple sticks, baby burgers, Baby Got Back, badvertising, binge drinking, BK, BK Positive Steps, booty, boycott, BrandFreak, Burger King, Burger Shots, cardiac, CCFC, Hip-Hop, hoochie mama, IOM, junk-food, Kids, Kids meals, media influence, mini burgers, negative, Nickelodeon, offensive, parental outcry, quad stacker, Quiznos toasty torpedo, sexist, Sexualization, Sir Mix-A-Lot, Spongebob, Spongebob Squarepants, squarebutts, subway, value meals

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