Advertising to Children stimulates and informs the debate on the ethics and effectiveness of marketing to children. The research tackles a wide range of issues including smoking and alcohol consumption.

Children represent a valuable target audience for advertisers, with over $200 billion in direct purchases and influenced spending. However, questions exist about both the effectiveness of marketing to children as well as the impact this advertising has on the children themselves. Current debates over smoking and alcohol consumption highlight this issue from all perspectives: marketers, parents, and policymakers. Advertising to Children presents cutting-edge research designed to stimulate and inform this debate. Well-known authors contribute their perspectives, with chapters organized in sections to address what children know and think about advertising, how advertising works with children, and what issues are at the forefront of societal and public-policy thinking. Editors M. Carole Macklin and Les Carlson have lead research in this field and lend their expertise. More than just a litany of hot topics, this book provides a wide-angle lens on the field, with insights from advertising, marketing, communication, and psychology.

Concern is growing about the effectiveness of television advertising regulation in the light of technological developments in the media. The current rapid growth of TV platforms in terrestrial, sattelite, and cable formats will soon move into digital transmission. These all offer opportunities for greater commercialization through advertising on media that have not previously been exploited. In democratic societies, there is a tension between freedom of speech rights and the harm that might be done to children through commercial messages. This book explores all of these issues and looks to the future in considering how effective codes of practice and regulation will develop.

In all circumstances, television advertisements affect children of different age and gender groups in terms of consumption. Advertisers consider children as the target audience because of ability to affect and lead children. Today, since television advertisements have an important and effective role in the conscious raising of children who will be socialised as the consumers of the future, we are confronted by the imperative to focus on television ads. This book examines research which highlights the effects of television advertisements on primary school age children and helps to understand their attitude towards advertisements.

This important source for students, researchers, advertisers and parents reviews the debates and presents new research about advertising to children. Chapters cover food and alcohol advertising, the effects of product placement and new media advertising, and the role of parents and teachers in helping children to learn more about advertising.

A study which examines the question of whether children understand television advertising and the effects of advertising on children. Young has jointly published with R. Calam "Children, Television Viewing and Family Beliefs: An Empirical Study".

Looks at the way corporations and advertisers target children as a profitable demographic, as well as their methods for getting past parental safeguards to make products of all kinds appeal directly to even the youngest children.