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Adbusters describes itself as anti-advertising: it blames advertising for playing a central role in creating and maintaining consumer culture. This argument is based on the premise that the advertising industry goes to great effort and expense to associate desire and identity with commodities.
Criticism of advertising is closely linked with criticism of media and often interchangeable. Critics can refer to advertising's: audio-visual aspects (cluttering of public spaces and airwaves) environmental aspects (pollution, oversize packaging, increasing consumption) political aspects (media dependency, free speech, censorship)
The United States federal government regulates advertising through the Federal Trade Commission [49] (FTC) with truth-in-advertising laws [50] and enables private litigation through a number of laws, most significantly the Lanham Act (trademark and unfair competition). Specifically, under Section 43(a), false advertising is an actionable civil ...
Anti-consumerism has paved the way for a "subvertising" (also known as culture jamming) movement, which uses artistic and political strategies to protest modern forms of publicity; acts of "subvertising" include "removing advertising from public spaces, tweeting to inform the city's mayor of illicit advertising practices, recuperating posters ...
A U.S. Federal Trade Commission official said on Wednesday that the country's leading seafood restaurant chains have been warned that the agency will crack down on false claims of locally caught ...
Greenwashing (a compound word modeled on "whitewash"), also called green sheen, [1] [2] is a form of advertising or marketing spin that deceptively uses green PR and green marketing to persuade the public that an organization's products, goals, or policies are environmentally friendly.
TikTok is full of videos spreading the bogus claim that the snow in Texas is fake and was engineered by the government. TikTokers are trying to prove that snow in Texas is 'fake,' pushing a false ...
In the United States, researchers have consistently found that negative advertising has positive effects. Negative advertising "is likely to stimulate voters by increasing the degree to which they care about the election's outcome or by increasing ties to their party's nominee;" [32] it makes the election seem more important, and thus increases ...