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Campaign For A Commercial Free Childhood
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 Judge Baker Children's Center in Boston.
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Will the FCC Act?
The FCC is debating how its sponsorship identification rules apply to product placement, product integration and other types of "embedded advertising" relayed over television or radio stations.
Consoles Gain In Popularity, May Steal Ad Dollars
Worldwide revenues from connected consoles--or gaming systems that are connected to the Internet via broadband--are set to top $4 billion in just two years, according to new data from Parks Associates.
A Text Arrives. Oh, It's Just an 'Idol' Ad.
Some ATT Wireless customers have voted an emphatic no on a promotion for American Idol that popped up on their phones this week.
Game Industry Finally Notices Girls
Design, baby-sitting video games target a growing market.
TV Does Toddlers More Harm Than Good Expert Warns
Allowing infants and toddlers to watch DVDs and TV does them more harm than good, experts warn as a review of research finds it affects language development.
March of the Penguin
Disney's $350 million bird is spreading its wings.
CCFC to FCC: Protect Children from Embedded Ads
In comments filed today, CCFC urged the FCC to a) explicitly prohibit the inclusion of embedded ads in all children's programming; and b) ban product placement and product integration in primetime broadcast programming when children are likely to be in the audience.
Wrigley Sells Advergaming Site Candystand
Wm. Wrigley Jr. Co. is selling its successful advergaming website Candystand.com to Funtank, the newly opened branded gaming and entertainment publisher said today.
Schoolhouse Rocks With Milk Rocks
New York-based MilkMedia has developed the Milk Rocks! program, a school initiative that intends to up the cool factor of moo juice by associating it with kid-friendly pop, rock, rap, soul and country artists on milk cartons, book covers, lunchroom posters and other school materials.
Fuzzy Renaissance
Disney prepares to use its marketing magic to bring back the 'Muppets.'
School Children Thrown Overboard into Commercial Sea
"At Sea in a Marketing-Saturated World," the eleventh annual report on schoolhouse commercialism released by the Arizona State University Commercialism in Education Research Unit (CERU), finds that children live, breathe, and play with branded products in and outside of school.
Cartoon Network's Star Wars Mall Tour, It Is
Cartoon Network today is blasting off an eight-week mall tour in support of its latest animated Star Wars series.
Products Placed: How Companies Pay Artists to Include Brands in Lyrics
Some artists have gone so far as to approach companies with offers to include brand and product names in their song lyrics.
Bratz Books Expelled from US School Book Suppliers
One of America's largest distributors of books to schools has stopped listing Bratz books, after a campaign from parents saying the characters contributed to the sexualisation of children.
JibJab Caters to New Crowd: 'High School Musical' Fans
JibJab and Disney have teamed to offer free customizable web videos of the "HSM3" musical number "Now or Never," already shown on Disney TV properties.
Distributor Gives Bratz the Boot
The largest distributor of children's books to Canadian schools has decided to yank all Bratz books from its roster after parents and psychologists complained the controversial dolls promoted "precocious sexuality.
CCFC Expels Bratz From Schools
Following an eighteen-month campaign by the Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood (CCFC), Scholastic, Inc. will no longer be promoting the controversial and highly sexualized Bratz brand in schools.
Study: Gamers Respond to Ads
36 percent of gamers who see marketing messages take action.
TechCrunch50: Start-Ups Target Kids
Silicon Valleys entrepreneurial energy is being served up in highly concentrated form this week, at a San Francisco conference called the TechCrunch50.
BusRadio Proposal Should Be Silenced
Exposing this captive audience to the radio ads that accompany this national programming is not in the best interests of either the district or its students.
