Campaign For A Commercial Free Childhood

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Campaign For A Commercial-Free Childhood is a national coalition of health care professionals, educators, advocacy groups and concerned parents who counter the harmful effects of marketing to children through action, advocacy, education, research, and collaboration. We support the rights of children to grow up and the rights of parents to raise them without being undermined by rampant commercialism. CCFC is headquartered at the NonProfit Center in Boston.
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Europe Takes Aim at Sexist Ads

Thu, 06/10/2010 - 16:00
Last week, the legislature voted 504 to 110 to scold advertisers for “sexual stereotyping,” adopting a nonbinding report that seeks to prod the industry to change the way it depicts men and women.

Curbing advertising will cut obesity

Thu, 06/10/2010 - 16:00
Research that rigorously modelled 13 interventions aimed at reducing adolescent obesity, found advertising restrictions to be the most cost-effective measure by a long margin.

Back-to-School Brands Cash In On Virtual Goods

Thu, 06/10/2010 - 16:00
Real-world retailers like Kohl's and Sears went virtual to help boost back-to-school sales this year, setting up shop and shilling their wares in kid-friendly worlds like Stardoll and Zwinky.

VTech Targets Tots With a Wee Wii

Thu, 06/10/2010 - 16:00
The average youngster first wields a video-game controller at age 6, but one kiddie electronics marketer keeps working to make that even younger.

Are the Army's New Marketing Tactics a Little too Kid-Friendly?

Thu, 06/10/2010 - 16:00
The U.S. Army is turning up in a lot of youthful places lately.

Toxic Beverly Hills

Thu, 06/10/2010 - 16:00
Thanks to CW, parents have to worry about poison on school buses.

PBS characters promote produce in Florida schools

Thu, 06/10/2010 - 16:00
In Florida schools, some PBS kids’ show characters are coming to the cafeterias.

Advertising on high school IDs off table, for now

Thu, 06/10/2010 - 16:00
There will not be advertising on the back of Missoula high school student identification cards.

CCFC to BusRadio: Stop Promoting 90210 to Six-Year-Olds

Thu, 06/10/2010 - 16:00
The Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood (CCFC) and other advocates for children are demanding that BusRadio stop advertising the highly sexualized new television show 90210 to children as young as six.

Does Marketing Contribute to Obesity in African-Americans?

Thu, 06/10/2010 - 16:00
There is a body of statistical data suggesting that the black community has been left behind on the road to healthier-food marketing.

Nick Dials in Wireless With iCarly Buy

Thu, 06/10/2010 - 16:00
Nickelodeon has signed its first wireless client, ATT, to a multiplatform deal that coincides with the brand’s foray into the tween space.

Sara Lee Sells Whole Grain Image To Teens

Thu, 06/10/2010 - 16:00
The effort, allied with Disney's "High School Musical 3: Senior Year," comprises TV, Web, in-cinema grassroots events, sweepstakes, PR and point-of-purchase activities timed to the film's Oct. 24 release.

Obama May Take Softer Approach on Kids' Obesity

Thu, 06/10/2010 - 16:00
The Obama campaign's senior director of domestic policy spent nearly an hour on Monday talking about plans for attacking childhood obesity. Absent from the discussion was mention of any advertising or marketing restrictions on "junk food."

Beer ads undermine campus efforts

Thu, 06/10/2010 - 16:00
THE DRIVE by college presidents to drop the campus drinking age could be taken more seriously if these leaders stopped bingeing on beer ads.

Watch out Hannah, 90210's back

Thu, 06/10/2010 - 16:00
CBS Consumer Products is targeting this generation of tweens and teens currently smitten with Hannah Montana and the Jonas Bros. with a global merch program based on the spin-off hitting US airwaves next month.

Humble ISD Pins Its Hopes On Bus Ads

Thu, 06/10/2010 - 16:00
When Humble ISD students board school buses next week, they'll be climbing into big yellow vehicles sponsored by day care centers, hospitals and home builders.

Study Slams IOC Sponsorship Policies

Thu, 06/10/2010 - 16:00
Groups argue that the marketing of junk foods, sodas, fast-food chains and alcoholic beverages should be eliminated.

CCFC Praises France Baby TV Ban; Urges FTC Action in the US

Thu, 06/10/2010 - 16:00
On French television, programming for babies has been banned. In this country, we cannot even prevent the producers of television for babies from deceiving parents.

France Bans Broadcast of TV shows for Babies

Thu, 06/10/2010 - 16:00
France's broadcast authority has banned French channels from marketing TV shows to children under 3 years old, to shield them from developmental risks it says television viewing poses at that age.

Disney Dialing up Kids Again

Thu, 06/10/2010 - 16:00
Beginning in September, Disney plans to roll out a grab bag of goodies for young cell phone users, including a mobile storefront, instant-messaging chat system and virtual world widgets.