![[]](/sites/default/modules/ecommerce/cart/images/cart_empty.png "View your cart items"){kind=spacer}
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 NonProfit Center in Boston.
Updated: 1 hour 53 min ago
Burger King Stages Family Fun Days
We want to get [the burgers] in to the hands of our consumers, Risa Schultz, manager, multi-cultural promotions for Burger King, said.
Kids Increasingly Eating From Value Menus
The recession is affecting restaurant consumption patterns among kids as well as adults, according to new data from The NPD Group's Consumer Reports on Eating Share Trends (CREST), which tracks commercial foodservice usage.
Creators of Movie-Based Video Games Trying Harder to Snare Gamers
Video games based on blockbuster movies typically get panned, yet they shamelessly benefit from the buzz of their film inspirations. The developers of this summer's movie games are more intent than ever on transforming gamers' groans into grins.
Princess Fever Reigns for Generation of Girls
But some parents fear fairy-tale fantasy conveys wrong message
CCFC Says It Urged Congress To Require FCC Bus Report
The FCC put out a request for comment this week on a report it must produce for Congress on commercial proposals for broadcasting radio or television programs for reception onboard specially-equipped school buses operated by, or under contract with, local public educational agencies.
Axe Body Products Puts Its Brand on the Hamptons Club Scene
Beginning this weekend, Axe is trying to appeal to New York area pick-up artists with a new venture: it is sponsoring a Hamptons nightclub for the entire summer.
Burger King and Paramount Embark on Unprecedented Partnership
Burger King has for the first time committed to one movie studio for its summer movie marketing. And in turn, Paramount Pictures is for the first time engaging in three consecutive move tie-ins with the same brand.
Marriott Offers Nickelodeon Getaway Program
Marriott International and Nickelodeon are joining together beginning May 29 to bring a new family entertainment program, titled Nickelodeon Getaway, to certain JW Marriott, Marriott and Renaissance Resorts in the U.S. and around the world.
Teachers to Scholastic: Dont Use Us to Market Toys, Make-up, and Brands to Children in School
Stop enlisting teachers to sell toys, make-up, and brands to students through book clubs. Thats what more than 1,200 teachers said in a letter the Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood sent to Scholastic, Inc., the worlds largest educational publishing company.
McDonald's, Fox Sign Global Movie Tie-In Deal
McDonald's and Twentieth Century Fox have announced a global partnership around the studio's movies that encompasses Happy Meal toys, commercials and online tie-ins.
How Online Gaming Companies Are Trying To Make Money From Kids
One big challenge for online game companies is how to make money from children who play lots of games online but don't have any cash
A Book Packager Takes a Step Into Web Video
Alloy Entertainment has proved adept at turning its young-adult book series into successful movies and television shows.
Parents to President Obama: Unfettered Commercialism is Harming our Children
As the nation celebrates the first Mothers and Fathers Days since the inauguration of President Obama, the Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood is urging the President to launch a systematic review of the regulations on marketing to children to determine whether they offer adequate protection for twenty-first century families.
PBS to Shorten Time Commitments for Sponsorships
Companies will soon be able to sponsor some PBS programs for as little as one week at a time, rather than a full year.
Burger King Takes Heat Over 'Highly Sexualised' Kids Ad
A letter-writing campaign launched in response to a controversial new ad by Burger King in the US has mobilised nearly 10,000 concerned citizens over the course of three weeks.
Mom Blogs Dole Out Advice -- With Corporate Backing
Like many mom bloggers, Young originally wrote about products she bought. Then companies came calling.
No Viagra Ads Before 10PM?
Congressman Introduces Bill That Would Ban ED-Drug Advertising During Certain Hours
CCFC Blasts New Hasbro/Discovery Channel Children's Netowrk
This partnership represents a new low in childrens television, a network devoted to showing infomercials for Hasbros toys and games. It will make a mockery of existing ad limits and the current prohibition of product placement in childrens television.
Discovery, Hasbro Kids' Cable Deal May Rankle FCC
Hasbro's deal means that the new network will be one long infomercial aimed at children, said Susan Linn, associate director of the Media Center at Judge Baker Children's Center and director of the Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood
Kindergarten Cram
Instead of digging in sandboxes, todays kindergartners prepare for a life of multiple-choice boxes by plowing through standardized tests with cuddly names like Dibels (pronounced dibbles), a series of early-literacy measures administered to millions of kids; or toiling over reading curricula like Open Court which features assessments every six weeks.
