Tag: advertising

  • Seems to be Capitalism as Usual for Corporations during Coronavirus…

    Several large Corporations have created adverts tapping into our new ‘Coronavirus’ norms. There seems to be a pretty formulaic structure involving images of key workers with thankful messages, images of people in their homes communicating via Zoom or some other video conferencing app, and finally a reference (the point of the ad) to how the…

  • The U.K. now bans ads which reinforces gender stereotypes

    In 2017 the Advertising Standards Authority published a report on gender stereotypes in advertising, prompted (among other things) by the hundreds of complaints it had received from the public about Protein World’s 2015 ‘Beach Body Ready’ advertising campaign. That particular advert led a public backlash, with several people posting images of themselves and their ‘ordinary’…