What does the article examine? The article reports findings of a research project which examined the persuasion knowledge of young boys in relation to so called “brand-integrated magazines” and compared them to traditional product...
My latest book, Marketing Ethics & Society, edited together with Lynne Eagle and published by Sage has just been published. Aiming to provide insights into the important ethical challenges faced by marketers, the book...
What does the article examine? The article examines how consumers react to advertising of over-the-counter (OTC) medicines, in this case specifically painkillers (analgesics). Which concepts are discussed in the article? The article draws on...
Special Issue of Marketing Intelligence and Planning Contributing to the dialogue between researchers and practitioners, this special issue of the journal focuses on the ethical dimensions of medical / pharmaceutical marketing in the Web...
Have you wondered what some of the junk food companies get up to online? Why they are avoiding good old fashioned TV and invest millions in making fun games? And if all those games...
I’ve recently been looking a lot at various advergames across different platforms (such as mobile phones, online etc). An interesting point I noticed was the “age rating” given by Apple’s iTunes store – which...
So… the alcohol industry has slammed a report by Gerard Hastings and Nick Sheron in BMJ that brandished the self regulation code as “clumsily imposed”, and asks for much tighter regulation – similar to...
