The documentary Consuming Kids: The Commercialization of Childhood by Adriana Barbaro and Jeremy Earp clearly shows how the ever-evolving industry of advertising has targeted children, and the detrimental effects advertising can have on them. As mentioned by Barbaro and Earp (2008) throughout the documentary, once the “floodgates opened”, multiple advertising companies began to do their best to bombard children with as many advertisements as possible, insinuating as many brands as possible into their lives, and eventually attempting to make them “brand-loyal.” (Barbaro & Earp, 2008; Eagle, Bulmer, Bruin, & Kitchen, 2005). It is then imperative to understand and analyze why such companies do so, and the universal consequences of such tactics. Through analysis of the advertising activities of these companies, this paper will demonstrate how damaging the advertising industry is towards children, the universal consequences of such tactics, and what needs to be done in regards to such advertising companies to prevent even further damaging consequences for children in the future. While the first half of this paper will deal with how the advertising market has evolved over time, the second half will examine the effects and significant ramifications of advertising, and potential solutions for bettering advertising will be proposed. Thus, an analysis of the evolving advertising market, including discussion on the effects and consequences of advertising to children today will not only prove how children’s marketing is a social problem, but also propose how children’s lives can be improved through advertising regulation.
Advertising is the paid service of promoting a product and influencing consumers’ attitudes through various forms of medi...
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Commercials make the viewer think about the product being advertised. Because of the amount of television children watch throughout the week, it allows the children to be exposed to the information over and over again. Per year, children are known to view thousands of fast food commercials. On a daily basis, a teen will usually view five advertisements and a child aged six to eleven will see around four advertisements (Burger Battles 4). Businesses use this strategy to “speak directly to children” (Ruskin 3). Although the big businesses in the fast ...
In the article “Report of the APA Task Force on Advertising and Children” talks about commercials targeting kids. First of all, Advertising didn’t take off until the arrival of various mass media;printing, radio, and television. Secondly, The British Parliament passed legislation in 1874 intended to protect children from the efforts of merchants to induce them to buy products and assume debt. Thirdly, Opportunities to advertise to children further expanded with the explosive growth the internet and thousands of child-oriented Web sites with advertising content have appeared in the past few years. After that, The growth in advertising channels reaching children and the privatization in children’s media use---have resulted in dramatic increase
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For decades, targeted advertisement directed to children and teenagers was a somewhat controversial issue. Every year young people are exposed to 40,000 advertisements on television only, not counting number of advertisements on the Internet or on billboards. This exposure could be responsible for excess weight in children and consumption of alcohol and tobacco by teenagers (Strasburger 2001). Despite existent positive effects of targeted advertisements, negative impacts significantly outweigh them, and it is clear that targeted advertising carries noticeable harm for children`s education, health, psychology and social life. This essay will evaluate impact of targeted advertising on children and adolescents considering its possible positive and negative effects. Which include obesity and ‘sexualization’ ...
The land of the free, brave and consumerism is what the United States has become today. The marketing industry is exploiting children through advertisement, which is ridiculously unfair to children. We are around advertisement and marketing where ever we go; at times, we don't even notice that we are being targeted to spend our money. As a matter of fact, we live to buy; we need and want things constantly, and it will never stop. The film, Consuming Kids , written by Adriana Barbaro and directed by Jeremy Earp, highlights children as this powerful demographic, with billions of dollars in buying power, but the lack of understanding of marketers’ aggressive strategies. Children are easily influenced and taken advantage of, which is why commercialization of children needs to stop. Commercialization to children leads to problems that parents do not even know are happening such as social, future, and rewired childhood problems. Government regulations need to put a stop to corporations that live, breathe and sell the idea of consumerism to children and instead show that genuine relationships and values are what are important.
Why do advertisers advertise to kids so much? Can’t they just advertise to adults? Well yes but kids at such a young age don’t have a machered brain like older kids/adults do so little kids are easily persuaded. What comes with being easily persuaded being tricked and that is what advertisers do to kids. Advertisers are using colors to catch kids attention advertisers are also going on kids favorite games and putting their ads on the game with the bright colors to catch kids attention and watch the ad. Or sometimes advertisers will say that if you watch the ad that u will get more coins or more clothes for your character Which most of the time with kids they will whatch the ad because kids most the time want the best things for their
Marketing and advertising is a ubiquitous stimulus on many youngsters accompanied by parents as well. Parents are having a tough period trying to raise their kids the way they want but kids, the captive audience are continually being swayed progressively more and more through media and advertisements. Similarly, marketing to children has become a public pandemic due to several explanations. Calvert (2008) addresses product marketing to children and shows that although marketers have targeted children for decades, two recent trends have increased their interest in child consumers. (p.205). The binary of those latest trends are, children’s discretionary income and their control to sway their parents consumptions and the increasing number of
Across America in homes, schools, and businesses, sits advertisers' mass marketing tool, the television, usurping freedoms from children and their parents and changing American culture. Virtually an entire nation has surrendered itself wholesale to a medium for selling. Advertisers, within the constraints of the law, use their thirty-second commercials to target America's youth to be the decision-makers, convincing their parents to buy the advertised toys, foods, drinks, clothes, and other products. Inherent in this targeting, especially of the very young, are the advertisers; fostering the youth's loyalty to brands, creating among the children a loss of individuality and self-sufficiency, denying them the ability to explore and create but instead often encouraging poor health habits. The children demanding advertiser's products are influencing economic hardships in many families today. These children, targeted by advertisers, are so vulnerable to trickery, are so mentally and emotionally unable to understand reality because they lack the cognitive reasoning skills needed to be skeptical of advertisements. Children spend thousands of hours captivated by various advertising tactics and do not understand their subtleties.
Today’s children are unique in many ways from previous generations, but perhaps the most influencing on our young children today is Television advertisements. "In 1997, the nation’s estimated 34 million children age 12 and under will have spent or influenced spending of a record $500 billion" (Horovitz 1997). There is obviously a great deal of interest in this subject, many books have been written, and many studies and reports done on the effects of TV advertising on children. In the following paragraphs we will look at some of the reasons why we advertise to children, some different positive and negative effects of TV advertisement on children, how people can cut through the hype of TV ads and pick good things for their children.