March 12th from SAFER Move. According to “A technical report on the harmful use of alcohol related to cross-border alcohol marketing, advertising and promotional activities, including those targeting youth and adolescents” developed by the World Health Organization, alcohol is “a commodity of concern to public health.” Alcohol marketing methods are expected to boost alcohol expenditure, and … Read More →
Overview Exposure to alcohol marketing increases the acceptability of drinking alcohol, at an earlier age of onset and influences drinking behaviours, including heavy episodic drinking. The digital ecosystem provides opportunities for marketing companies to position increasingly covert advertising. These new advertisements target individual consumers based on the data that has been gathered about them, allowing … Read More →
March 18, 2022 by Megan Cook, Yvette Mojica-Perez & Sarah Callinan. From the Foundation for Alcohol Research and Education (FARE). A new report has found that alcohol companies rely on people who drink the most for sales, with more than a third of alcohol consumed in Australia drunk by only five per cent of the … Read More →
March 2022 by Emily Nicholls. From the Institute of Alcohol Studies (IAS). This report examines how No and Low Alcohol (NoLo) beverages are marketed and promoted in the UK and explores how and why consumers drink them. Whilst a more nuanced understanding of the expanding NoLo market and changes in drinking practices is important for … Read More →
In a new analysis published in The Lancet Global Health, Pepita Barlow and colleagues reveal the global scale of alcohol industry attempts to disrupt national public health policies, deploying arguments—many employing motifs used for decades to fight tobacco control—in high-level World Trade Organization (WTO) discussions. The authors found that more than half (55·2%) of the … Read More →
10th March 2022 from The National Tribune. Using novel computational and machine learning methods, researchers from The Foundation for Alcohol Research and Education (FARE) and The University of Queensland (UQ) have started a three-year study to better understand how young people are targeted by alcohol companies via social media. This research comes as investigations by … Read More →
4th March 2022 from Mirage. New research published today in the Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health has found that Australian children are exposed to enormous volumes of alcohol advertising during live sports broadcasts each year. The research analyzed the volume of alcohol ads placed by alcohol companies during sport on free-to-air … Read More →
7th September 2017 from Movendi International. In the United States several brewing companies are facing scrutiny for using sexually predatory designs and imagery of women on their beer labels. The illustrations under scrutiny contain names like “leg spreader”, sex and candy”, and “naughty girl”. It is clear that these marketing tactics raise questions about sexism … Read More →
March 4th, 2022 by Kelly Mcclure. From Salon. Having four drinks a day can age a person’s brain considerably over time, states new study. The study, published in the journal Nature, provides data indicating that people who drank a pint of beer, or a 6-oz glass of wine on a daily basis over a month … Read More →
March 2022, by Sophie Cousins. From The Lancet. The website internationalwomensday.com promises to celebrate women, provide guidance and resources to support International Women’s Day (IWD) events, and provides a means to donate to female-focused characters. Although it is unclear who runs the website, there are several partners supporting it, such as DHL, Nottingham Trent University, … Read More →