What role should the Government have in promoting a particular type of lifestyle?
What responsibility do citizens have to take informed choices — 'to make their own weather'?
April 14, 2007 (Press Release) --
Advertising Agencies MA
Executive Summary
In a speech to the 2004 Incorporated Society of British Advertisers (ISBA) conference in March 2004, Tessa Jowell, Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, stated that the issues faced by the advertising industry are central to the future of public policy, dealing with questions 'at its very heart'. These questions are:
What role should the Government have in promoting a particular type of lifestyle?
What responsibility do citizens have to take informed choices — 'to make their own weather'?
How should business operate in this environment? How can business be socially responsible but still competitive?
The issues to which Ms Jowell was primarily referring were obesity and healthy eating; these, along with the other major health issues of smoking, drinking and exercise and the role advertising has within these issues, were the matters of most concern to the advertising industry in 2004.
So-called `unhealthy foods' can be classified into six categories: carbonated drinks; crisps and savoury snacks; fast-food restaurants; preprepared convenience foods; presugared breakfast cereals; and confectionery. These are known collectively as the `Big Six'. Key Note has calculated that just three of the Big Six — carbonated drinks, crisps and savoury snacks, and preprepared convenience foods (including frozen pizza) — represented almost a fifth of all food advertising expenditure in the year ending June 2004. Chain restaurants, such as McDonald's and KFC, are classified as retailers; if these are included, Key Note has found that expenditure in these categories accounts for 2.4% of advertising across all of the main product groups, including financial products, leisure, travel and pharmaceutical products. It is not, therefore, surprising that the industry is looking at this issue very seriously indeed: huge revenues would be at stake if any kind of advertising ban were imposed.
However, can the industry regulate itself effectively? And is it doing enough? Key Note commissioned BMRB Access to survey a representative sample of adults to discover what they thought about how advertising is aimed at children and to find out how aware they were of measures the industry is taking to educate children in order to be more media literate.
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Executive Summary
In a speech to the 2004 Incorporated Society of British Advertisers (ISBA) conference in March 2004, Tessa Jowell, Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, stated that the issues faced by the advertising industry are central to the future of public policy, dealing with questions 'at its very heart'. These questions are:
What role should the Government have in promoting a particular type of lifestyle?
What responsibility do citizens have to take informed choices — 'to make their own weather'?
How should business operate in this environment? How can business be socially responsible but still competitive?
The issues to which Ms Jowell was primarily referring were obesity and healthy eating; these, along with the other major health issues of smoking, drinking and exercise and the role advertising has within these issues, were the matters of most concern to the advertising industry in 2004.
So-called `unhealthy foods' can be classified into six categories: carbonated drinks; crisps and savoury snacks; fast-food restaurants; preprepared convenience foods; presugared breakfast cereals; and confectionery. These are known collectively as the `Big Six'. Key Note has calculated that just three of the Big Six — carbonated drinks, crisps and savoury snacks, and preprepared convenience foods (including frozen pizza) — represented almost a fifth of all food advertising expenditure in the year ending June 2004. Chain restaurants, such as McDonald's and KFC, are classified as retailers; if these are included, Key Note has found that expenditure in these categories accounts for 2.4% of advertising across all of the main product groups, including financial products, leisure, travel and pharmaceutical products. It is not, therefore, surprising that the industry is looking at this issue very seriously indeed: huge revenues would be at stake if any kind of advertising ban were imposed.
However, can the industry regulate itself effectively? And is it doing enough? Key Note commissioned BMRB Access to survey a representative sample of adults to discover what they thought about how advertising is aimed at children and to find out how aware they were of measures the industry is taking to educate children in order to be more media literate.
For more information, Please visit : http://www.bharatbook.com/detail.asp?id=9935
or email us at : info@bharatbook.com
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