The growing number of children in online game rooms and interactive websites provides ample opportunities for advertising campaigns aimed at kids. Combined with an ever-increasing number of ...

If a toy is moving in an ad, it better move once a child gets a hold of it. That’s the latest word from the Children’s Advertising Review Unit of the Council of Better Business Bureaus, Inc., which ...

In the 80s and 90s, ads showing boys with toy trucks and girls playing with dolls were a fixture on TV. Sociologist Elizabeth Sweet says the concept of boy vs. girl toys has ebbed and flowed ...

Toy advert jingles are sexist and reinforce 'rigid gender norms', woke scientists claim. Researchers claim that the sounds used in many toy commercials are influencing the way children perceive ...

Television commercials that advertise free toys — which have become a staple in most kids' meals — contribute to how frequently families visit fast food restaurants, new research reveals. A study ...

The MTA said Thursday that it would allow ads for a sex toy company to appear in the subway one day after the images were deemed too racy for city straphangers. The reversal came after accusations of ...

A few years ago, we could have commuted alongside (and blithely ignored) a series of subway ads that set pastel-colored sex toys on beige backdrops with the accompanying slogans, “Toys, for sex” and ...

In the 80s and 90s, ads showing boys with toy trucks and girls playing with dolls were a fixture on TV. Sociologist Elizabeth Sweet says the concept of boy vs. girl toys has ebbed and flowed ...