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Alcohol marketing versus public health: David and Goliath?
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Advertising ‘Greatness’? Guinness marketing and exposure in the 2019 Guinness Six Nations
The amount of Guinness advertising during the 2019 Six Nations was enormous and led to huge exposure of alcohol advertising to children. Dr Barker’s study looks at this exposure and its likely consequences. Read more »
Are ‘Soap Operas’ driving young people to drink?
Alex Barker examines the influence of alcohol brands product placement on viewers Read more »
A question of intent: Alcohol advertising campaign case studies make for sobering reading
It is time to leave claims of the innocuous goals of alcohol advertising aside and instead treat it with the regulatory attention it requires, says Nason Maani Hessari Read more »
It’s time to call time on the use of gender stereotypes in alcohol marketing
Dr Amanda Marie Atkinson discusses findings of a new IAS-commissioned report exploring the way in which women are both targeted and represented in alcohol marketing, and the possible health and social implications Read more »
First results of regulating alcohol marketing on social media in Finland
Emmi Kauppila chronicles the initial findings of the world’s first case study in online alcohol marketing regulation Read more »
Alcohol-free alcohol: A 0.0-sum endgame?
Habib Kadiri wonders if non-alcoholic drinks normalise alcohol branding in areas where they shouldn’t? Read more »
Using wearable cameras to track children’s exposure to alcohol marketing via product packaging
New Zealand study follows the lives of children bombarded with images of alcohol product placement Read more »
Are young people under the influence of alcohol content on TV?
Ofcom’s 9pm watershed might not be fit for purpose, argues Alex Barker Read more »
How long before we see effective alcohol advertising control?
We have the evidence, now we need the political will, writes Dr Simone Pettigrew Read more »
Alcohol actually – How broadcasters use the UK to avoid Swedish alcohol legislation
The European Commission recently decided that UK-based broadcasters are allowed to continue circumventing the Swedish alcohol marketing ban on TV Read more »
Adults-only brands served up to children at the Australian Open
Just as match fixing presents moral and ethical hazards, so too does taking money from alcohol brands to sponsor the game, says Michael Thorn Read more »
Can’t handle the proof
Alcohol industry protests over cancer warning labels backfire Read more »
Buy a lady a drink
Matt Damon has an alcohol problem… but it’s not what you think, writes Kristina Sperkova Read more »
What is the message in Doctor Foster’s bottle?
Dr Laura Fenton writes about how alcohol is represented in the BBC’s drama series Read more »
‘Our children’s television viewing is bombarded with the thrills and spills of alcohol’
Our legislators need to take action and alter our harmful relationship with alcohol, writes Dr Bobby Smyth Read more »
Alcohol advertising ban crowns comprehensive control measures adopted in Lithuania
Nijole Gostautaite Midttun describes the controversy surrounding the new alcohol law Read more »
Kick alcohol sponsorship out of sport
Professor Carwyn Jones argues that industry attempts to resist marketing legislation on ethical grounds must be sidelined in favour of protecting children from harms caused by alcohol Read more »
The power of the media in shaping perceptions of alcohol issues
A blogpost based on BMC Public Health paper ‘Why media representations of corporations matter for public health policy: a scoping review’ Read more »
When does alcohol sponsorship of sport become sports sponsorship of alcohol?
Following Formula One’s sponsorship deal with Heineken, Eurocare vice-president Lauri Beekmann speculates over the real benefits to the funding of national and global sports for the major alcohol industry players Read more »
It’s time to stop work, it’s time to drink beers
The exclusive presence of the Carlsberg brand during this year’s Euro 2016 football tournament provides a ‘perfect opportunity’ to compare alcohol marketing in France with that of the UK, writes Dr Richard Purves Read more »