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Disney
goes ad-funded with new mobile portal
(Pocket Gamer, 2/14/08)
Generation
MySpace Is Getting Fed Up
(Business Week, 2/7/08)
MySpace
not their space (Houston
Chronicle, 2/4/08)
Mountain
Dew Makes MMO More Than Just a Game
(Advertising Age, 1/28/08)
McDonald's
Pulls Ads From Suggestive Online Content
(MediaPost, 1/28/08)
EA to offer
ad-funded video game on Internet
(Bloomberg News, 1/22/08)
The New Focus Groups: Online Networks
(Wall Street Journal, 1/14/08)
Web Playgrounds of the Very Young
(New York Times, 12/31/07)
Top Online Advertiser Making a Raw
Impression (ClickZ Network,
12/17/07)
Ads on Webkinz draw criticism
(New Jersey Star-Ledger, 12/17/07)
Webkinz Takes Heat For Taking Advertising
(MediaPost, 12/14/07)
Guess Who's
Seeing Web Traffic Soar: Kraft and Co. (Advertising Age,
12/10/07)
Texas Accuses Web Marketers Of Targeting Children Unlawfully
(Brandweek, 12/10/07)
Kids Bombarded by Unsuitable Web Ads (The Guardian Unlimited, UK,
12/6/07)
Putting the 'I' in viral makes
web ads infectious (Brandweek, 12/3/07)
Facebook users complain of
new tracking (Red Orbit, 11/21/07)
Dispute over push to get
social Web sites in classroom (Union Leader Correspondent,
11/23/07)
What kids learn in virtual
worlds (C-Net News, 11/15/07)
New Facebook, MySpace ad
programs prompt FTC complaint (C-Net News, 11/12/07)
Forum to focus on online
privacy (San Francisco Chronicle, 11/1/07)
Facebook to Add Shopping
Service to Its Menu (Advertising Age, 11/5/07)
Privacy Groups Propose
Do-Not-Track List (Advertising Age, 10/30/07)
Pay Up, Kid, or Your
Igloo Melts (New York Times, 10/28/07)
Virtual worlds
threaten 'values' (BBC News, 10/25/07)
Are kids ready for ads in virtual
worlds? (C-Net News, 10/16/07)
When the PC becomes a
parenting problem (C-Net News, 10/11/07)
The Hottest Thing in Kids
Marketing? Imitating Webkinz (Advertising Age, 10/8/07)
Coming soon to
kindergarten: anti-piracy ed (C-Net News, 10/2/07)
The virtual playground (Ft. Worth Star-Telegram,
10/1/07)
MySpace to Discuss Latest Effort to
Customize Ads for Members (New York Times, 9/18/07)
Selling to Kids - Virtually
(Channel 4.com, 9/4/07)
Facebook Gets Personal With Ad Targeting Plan
(Wall Street Journal, 8/24/07)
Virtual worlds for kids
take off (The Guardian, 8/9/07)
Sears Targets Tweens Online
(Chicago Sun Times, 8/9/07)
Playground Networking, Now
Online (Washington Post, 8/3/07)
Virtual Worlds Aren't Just
for Reaching Adults Anymore (Click Z, 7/05/07)
Play sites offer safe fun — and
lucrative advertising space (International Herald Tribune,
6/6/07)
FTC Urged To Probe Digital
Food Marketing To Kids (Media Post, 5/17/07)
Websites cultivate
market in the making: children (Toronto Globe and Mail,
5/3/07)
Mattel aims at preteens with Barbie
Web brand (AP 4/27/07)
Ad infinitum (food marketing to
children) (Boston Globe, 4/23/07)
Webkinz's plush creatures take on
e-lives (Associated Press, 4/9/07)
Tweens' tap into the Web
(Baltimore Sun, 4/5/07)
Kids' TV faces new
Net restrictions (CNet News.com, 1/24/07)
Child protection advocates
hit at Wal-Mart (Financial Times, 10/5/06)
Exploitative Internet marketing fuels child obesity
(Reuters, 9/5/06)
PBS to sell online ads
(Broadcasting and Cable, 8/24/06)
How Advertising Is
Becoming Child's Play (Science News Online, 7/29/06)
Is it a game or an advertisement?
(Chicago Tribune, 7/20/06)
Food groups increase use of
internet to target children (Financial Times, 7/19/06)
Hey, Kid, You Want to Buy a
Toyota Scion? (New York Times, 6/14/06)
Kids And Neopets: Who's
Getting Fed? (CBS.com, 2/9/06)
Videogames
Video
Games Normalize Killing, Doctors Say
(KETV, 2/7/08)
Under-fire
video games industry to sponsor politicians
(Guardian Unlimited, 2/4/08)
MySpace's Missed Opportunity (Huffington
Post, 1/15/08)
Video game industry seeks political clout
(New York Times, 1/15/08)
Pepsi
tackles childhood obesity with videogames in Mexico
(The Guardian Unlimited, 1/2/08)
US kids find it easy to buy
adult-rated videogames: survey (AFP, 12/5/07)
PlayStation's game plan:
scale ad rates for videos (Adweek,
12/3/07)
Videogame teaches teen
girls to slither up social ladder (CanWest News Service,
11/22/07)
Senators urge tougher rating for
"Manhunt" game (Reuters, 11/20/07)
Child Advocates Upset Over
"Manhunt 2" (Associated Press, 10/30/07)
Screen violence tied to boys'
aggression: study (Yahoo News, 11/5/07)
Serious gaming starts
at 6 (Advertising Age, 10/18/07)
Nintendo Wii takes a
murderous turn (USA Today, 10/3/07)
Here
Comes 'Halo 3' with a Side Order of Fries (Wall Street
Journal, 8/9/07)
Video Game Ads (CBS 3.com, 5/30/07)
EU to study ways to keep
violent video games from kids (AP, 1/16/07)
Burger King Sets High Score With
Its Adver-games (AdAge.com,
1/8/07)
Study: Violent video game effects linger in brain
(Reuters, 11/28/06)
Free speech,
not a free ride (Boston Globe, 11/22/06)
T should
put the brakes on violent video game ads (11/20/06)
In-Game Ads Burrow
Deeper (Wired, 10/5/06)
Lawyer Fighting To
Ban 'Columbine Simulator' (TechWeb
Technology News,
August 14, 2006)
Kids Kill In
Violent Christian Videogame (Alternet, 7/21/06)
PC In-Game Advertising
Revenue to Top $400 Million by 2009 (MediaBuyerPlanner,
6/14/06)
NPD Study: More and More
Children Using Consumer Electronics (AdAge.com,
5/31/06)
Burger King's 'King'
to Star in Video Games (Advertising Age, 4/14/06)
In-game ads link to the real
world (Christian Science Monitor, 1/26/06)
Television/ Movies
Toy Maker Hasbro Locks Up More Hollywood Deals
(Advertising Age, 2/20/08)
Parents
Group Slams Producers for Marketing PG-13 Films to Kids
(Brandweek, 1/17/08)
“George of
the Jungle” returns (New York
Times, 1/16/08)
Ad Groups Want to Block FCC
Rule-Making on Product Placement (Advertising Age, 12/17/07)
So That’s Why
They Drink Coke on TV (New York Times, 12/9/2007)
FCC Fines Two TV stations for
Violations of Children's-TV Ad Limits
(Broadcasting and Cable,
9/29/07)
Parents tricked by
Baby Einstein (Brisbane Times, 8/6/07)
Study
by Wake Forest professor says toddlers learn little
from TV
(Winston-Salem Journal,
7/3/07)
TV may harm toddlers' brain
development (Canadian Press, 5/08/07)
More toddlers have own TVs,
study finds
20% of children under age 3 have a set in bedroom
(Chicago Tribune, 5/7/07)
Ad infinitum (food marketing
to children) (Boston Globe, 4/23/07)
Kids need a respite
from TV (Eugene Guard-Register, 4/23/07)
Markey Wants to Put Kids TV
On Ad Diet (Broadcast and Cable, 4/17/07)
FTC Takes Issue
with Food Marketing to Kids (AdAge.com 4/17/07)
Growth spurt seen in
TV fare for babies (San Antonio Express-News,
4/17/07)
Disney Expands
Electronics With Themes Taken From Movies
(Media
Post, 4/12/07)
Chrysler, Sirius Introduce
'Backseat TV' With Kid Shows
(Media Post, 3/30/07)
Study Finds Food Is Top
Product Advertised to Kids (Washington Post,
3/28/07)
FCC Split Over TV
Violence Report (National Journal, 3/28/07)
BabyFirstTV growing up
fast (Hollywood Reporter, 3/26/07)
Diaper Demographic:
TV, Video Programming for the Under-2 Market
Grows Despite Lack of
Clear Educational Benefit
(Washington Post, 2/24/07)
Are Canadian
babies ready for their own TV channel? (CBC,
1/30/07)
CCFC to President Bush: Luring Babies to Screens is Not
Heroic
Watching television
won't turn babies into Einsteins
(Concord Monitor,
1/25/07)
TV ads stress
children (New Zealand Press, 1/02/06)
Baby
Frankenstein (Forbes, 12/19/06)
Pediatricians criticize use
of TVs in hospital (Boston Globe, 10/17/06)
TVs in bedrooms may make
kids fat (CanWest 10/16/06)
TV Hurts School
Performance (AP, 10/2/06)
Study: Advertisements for
high-fat foods permeate TV targeting toddlers (AP,
9/30/06)
Baby TV Comes to
Canada (Global National, 7/11/06)
Study says
violence still abounds in children's television
(Kansas City Star, 5/29/06)
Kaiser Tallies
Kids' TV Hours (5/24/06)
Round-The-Clock TV
Channel For Babies Debuts (Associated Press,
5/12/06)
Courting
Kids, Networks Aim Younger (TelevisionWeek,
2/20/06)
TV watching takes away from
family time (UPI, 2/7/06)
Baby Einsteins or baby
couch potatoes? (Wisconsin State Journal, 2/2/06)
In Tots' TV Shows, A Booming
Market, Toys Get Top Billing (Wall St. Journal,
1/27/06)
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