Advertising and Marketing
…is used to promote products or ideas specifically to children and often leverages engaging visuals and interactive content to capture their attention and influence behavior. These tactics, which are often difficult for children to identify, are pervasive across applications, websites, and platforms, raising concerns about ethical practices, privacy, and developmental impacts.
On Advertising and Marketing
Protecting Children In the New World of Online Advertising
Tips to help families understand the scope and impacts of the new world of online marketing to kids
Advertising and Kids: Let’s Take a (Commercial) Break
How does digital advertising and marketing influence children's behavior and health?
Deceptive Marketing Tactics on Popular Platforms for Kids
From "Captive Market: Protecting Children in the New World of Online Advertising"
Online Advertising, Unhealthy Foods, and Black Youth
From #AskTheExperts webinar "Captive Market: Protecting Children in the New World of Online Advertising"
Coercive Pressure to Spend Money in Video Games
From #AskTheExperts webinar "The Lure of Loot: Gambling and Manipulative Design in Youth Video Games"
The Influencer Impact: How Social Media Stars and YouTube A-Listers Shape the Way Kids Think, Act, and Interact
How to help children thoughtfully navigate the age of influencers and kidfluencers?