Alt Image Text

Dora the Explorer Hawks Junk Food to Kids Like a Drug Pusher in New Ad

Brand Marketing

Food advocates are back with a new ad slamming Nickelodeon for accepting ads for junk food. The ad from the Center for Science in the Public Interest and five other [...]


Alt Image Text

FTC Reports Food Marketing to Children Down 19.5%

Brand Marketing

Nutrition watchdogs should be pleased. Food companies are spending less money marketing to children and youth, a new Federal Trade Commission report found. Compared to 2006, food marketing targeting 2- [...]

Alt Image Text

Data Points: How We Eat

Brand Marketing

The rise of TV cooking shows and culinary/nutrition content in magazines insures that Americans are constantly bombarded with pictures, ads and articles about food. Yet for all the focus on [...]

Alt Image Text

Food Trade Groups Prepare ‘Nutrition Keys’ Labeling

Brand Marketing

Soon it’s going to be a lot harder to justify those indulgent product choices at the supermarket. In the coming months, consumers will begin to see new icons on the [...]