While the festive season remains culturally sacred, Amazon’s Black Friday-January Sales juggernaut of consumerism is uniting campaigners - Adfree's Robbie Gillett writes for @redpeppermag.bsky.social #MakeAmazonPay @ethical-consumer.bsky.social www.redpepper.org.uk/economics-un...

Calling all #Cardiff Adblockers - here is another sneaky application just in time for #Christmas 🎁 Get objecting to keep your public spaces free from ads ✅

This is exactly why we are calling for restrictions on harmful ads on our streets & in our public spaces where we have not consented to seeing them & can't turn them off! 😶 This is a public health issue that the Government must address & listen to people not advertisers 😡

The latest State of the Nation report from @foodfoundation.bsky.social includes how the industry are already ramping up outdoor ads to target children & disadvantaged communities who already have worse health outcomes - here are some key stats from the report: 🧵

Note that the SUV in this clip is a Toyota. Our complaint got a Toyota ad banned in 2023 for "disregard[ing] their impact on nature and the environment". This is not what we want to see from our public broadcaster.

Another day another SUV ad from the BBC. Gone Fishing is supposed to be a celebration of the countryside, does it really need an extended clip of a massive SUV fording a river for no reason? Save it for Top Gear!

Last week Adfree co-founder Robbie Gillett spoke at the #COP30 Health Pavilion on how the fossil fuel industry uses advertising and marketing to maintain social licence and hide their true impact. Thanks to @who.int for hosting us at this fascinating event 🙌

We're incredibly thrilled to be speaking at this #COP30 side-event on the harms of fossil fuel advertising. Join from anywhere using the livestream link in the post below 🔗👇💚

Planning application alert in #Cardiff 📢 Stop this huge screen from distracting drivers & causing unnecessary light pollution - OBJECT NOW!

Very welcome news from Reading where the council is clamping down on outdoor ads for unhealthy food. "The issue with advertising is that it takes away that freedom of choice that we all have about what we eat" 🔥 rdg.today/reading-clam...

Reducing the influence of advertising will help create healthier food environments and enable the shift towards a more sustainable, just food system - as highlighted by the new EAT-Lancet report, a major scientific analysis of our global food system: adfreecities.org.uk/2025/11/eat-...

This is very shocking to see and must be distressing for those who live or work nearby. Our cities need more trees, not more ads. Let's hope the Gardai can quickly identify the culprit.

Does outdoor advertising make you feel proud of your neighbourhood? The government have published a Pride in Place Strategy which says it will support councils to restrict unhealthy ads & put communities in control of their local area. Read more in our latest blog:

"Car advertisements are as unrealistic as cigarette advertisements were... portraying glamorous aspirational scenarios that users cannot achieve: e.g. showcasing cars driving through empty cities. Congestion, air pollution, noise, crashes, and impacts of climate change do not feature." 🔥🔥🔥

Heading to #LabourPartyConference this year? Join us for an amazing (FREE!) panel event on creating healthy public spaces. Featuring: - Dame Henrietta Moore - Margaret Mullane MP - Areeba Hamid, exec-dir at Greenpeace UK - Cllr Julia Willams - Hugh Ellis, TCPA. bit.ly/adfree-labco...

Junk food & gambling ads right outside the @libdems.org.uk conference shows why we're here talking to councillors about policies to restrict harmful ads to protect #publichealth & #nature🌿 @ldnc-uk.bsky.social @assoclibdemcllrs.bsky.social @libdemlocalgov.bsky.social

We're off to Greater Manchester this weekend: come and find us at one of the three venues we're visiting to talk with communities and councillors about our public spaces and public health. Full details here: adfreecities.org.uk/events/

We were very pleased to see the issue of outdoor advertising & the health impact on local communities raised in the Lords last week - we will be discussing this issue at our fringe event at Lib Dem conference next weekend - 21st Sept 6.15-7.15pm - & supporting councillors to take action locally

Calling all #Lambeth Adblockers! 📢 Adblock Lambeth are holding a meeting on Monday 29th September - 6pm - 8pm @ The Prince Regent pub, Herne Hill. Get involved in planning their activities for the year ahead & find out more about what they have been up to - adfreecities.org.uk/lambeth/

Who watches the watchdog? Erm... no-one, apparently. We submitted a joint complaint to the ASA about their own misleading adverts, along with our @badvertising.bsky.social partners. The ASA won't investigate it. So who will?

Congratulations to the Vale of Glamorgan for becoming the first local authority in #Wales to introduce an Advertising & Sponsorship Protocol which restricts 'junk food', gambling & payday loans to protect the public health of local communities 🥳 Which Welsh Council will be next?...

Do you live in Cardiff and want to see fewer harmful ads? Tell your councillor to support a stronger ad policy for Cardiff.

Good to see that gambling advertising is understood as a public health issue at the Peers For Gambling Reform summit & there is a need for OHID to expand their gambling harms remit to cover the impact of ads @drbeccycoopermp.bsky.social

We are at the Peers For Gambling Reform summit today - Will from @endgamblingads.bsky.social highlights the 90+ councils who already ban gambling ads because they understand the impact they have on local communities. But we really need a NATIONAL BAN to protect people from gambling harms

Great to see that Norwich City Council have rejected new unnecessary digital ad screens in the city centre saying that additional screens would overwhelm the city's heritage & beauty with a proliferation of advertising @adblocknorwich.bsky.social www.eveningnews24.co.uk/news/2521730...

Great to see this in the Vale of Glamorgan. More and more Welsh councils are taking such steps - but wouldn't it be great to see parties campaigning for a national ban at next year's Senedd election? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... @adfreecities.bsky.social #AdvertisingShitsInYourHead

We can't afford billionaires. We can't afford extreme wealth. But we CAN afford living wages and a good life for all workers. So we're joining @makethempay.bsky.social with the Billionaires Out of Fashion bloc. Join us!

Three dilapidated billboards in east Bristol have got us thinking about how the space could look different. What would you rather see instead of corporate advertising? #BetterWithoutBillboards

🌼 Heading to #GreenGathering this weekend? So are we! We're bringing our anti-advertising monstrosity #BillboardDystopia to the Campaigns Field, and running workshops in the Campaigns Dome on Friday at 12pm and Saturday at 2pm. Hope to see you there 💚 www.greengathering.org.uk/campaigns-fi...

France set to pass advertising ban on ultra-fast fashion brands like Shein and Temu 🙌 This is the kind of bold action we need to break the cycles of consumerism that are so harmful to people and planet. www.reuters.com/sustainabili...

Former president of WPP UK - an ad firm representing some of the world's worst polluters - is now able to influence UK foreign policy. Is this what being a climate leader looks like? novaramedia.com/2025/07/16/d...

🐮 Demand for industrial animal farming is driven by advertising and marketing. 👩‍🌾 This petition calls on government to promote plant-based foods, and end any support for campaigns promoting meat and dairy. Please sign and share: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/71...

"I'm not lovin' it" says this thought-provoking cow mural by artist Louis Michel. The manager of the McDonald's opposite wasn't loving it either, and threatened legal action. Are they scared that people might stop and think about the reality behind their marketing? realmedia.press/mcdonalds-mu...

CO2 emissions from UK aviation are higher than ever. But flights are advertised as a harmless bit of fun. Join Adfree co-director Robbie Gillett to explore the role of advertising in driving aviation demand, and the strategies we have to challenge it. climatecatalyst.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Live from Parliament: it's frustrating to see some MPs pointing to existing regulation to address miselading and harmful advertising, when we know from our own engagement with the ASA that regulation is failing to do this: adfreecities.org.uk/tag/asa/. We need government to act.

We're live from the Parliament debate on fossil fuel ads: it's good to see @simonforstroud.bsky.social stating that “Fossil Fuel advertising isn’t just misleading, it’s dangerous", and that reducing advertising works to reduce consumption. We hope other members take this on board.

Live from Parliament: Great to see @carladenyer.bsky.social quote our research on the links between outdoor advertising and inequality, and calling for national interventions on harmful advertising including gambling ads, given local councils' limited powers to address the harms

We're live at the debate in Parliament on fossil fuel advertising and bringing you updates as they happen! @jacobcolliermp.bsky.social says of fossil fuel advertising that “We’re now in an era of compliant deception” and points to the harmful positive associations created through sports sponsorship

Advertising and sponsorship help drive the dangerous rise in SUVs, which are 82% more likely to kill children. So along with @cleancitiescampaign.org @mumsforlungs.bsky.social & others we're calling on @wimbledonltc.bsky.social to drop their SUV sponsors. www.londondaily.news/call-to-drop...

Imagine if there was pro-veg messaging instead of meat ads. Imagine if food labels had to declare animal suffering. Imagine if ALL unhealthy food ads disappeared. We take a look at the initiatives showing us a kinder future, beyond misinformation: adfreecities.org.uk/2025/06/beyo...

🚨 𝗨𝗥𝗚𝗘𝗡𝗧: On Mon 7 July, MPs will debate a ban on fossil fuel ads and sponsorship. This is a pivotal moment for the UK to tackle Big Oil like it did Big Tobacco. ✉️ Ask your MP to show up. It takes just 2 mins. 👉 Use our email template tool: actionnetwork.org/letters/urge...

Adverts never show us the reality for farmed animals. Check out The Animal Law Foundation's great work to understand and expose #FoodChainMisinformation, and their billboard installation in London which shows what's really behind the happy chicken images we're shown.

We're very concerned to learn that the EU is likely to roll-back important anti-greenwash rules after pressure from right-wing groups. These regs protect us all from harmful corporate greenwash. www.edie.net/anti-greenwa...

It's #CleanAirDay so we're taking a look at the ways in which advertising drives air pollution. From cars, to flights to fossil fuels: if it pollutes there's probably an advert for it! adfreecities.org.uk/2025/06/push...

1🧵We are grateful to @TheLancet for showing climate leadership by extending its ethical advertising ban to the banks funding the fossil fuel crisis. It is time for all medical organisations to divest their banking and investments away from climate destroying infrastructure.

Great to see #Kingston upon Thames becoming the 11th #London borough to introduce a 'healthier' Advertising & Sponsorship Policy acknowledging the impact that outdoor ads have on #publichealth 👏https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cj93k84lxyro

Brilliant result from Hackney where a billboard without planning permission has now been removed 👏 Our high streets are better without corporate advertising. @adblockhackney.bsky.social

Adblock Bristol are looking for your help to keep the Burg Arts community billboard in Bristol running, showcasing local artwork for a brighter alternative to ads in public space! If you can, please consider dropping them a few quid for this brilliant project 💰🎨🙏

Large SUVs are increasingly being advertised as "safe", family vehicles. And yet as this report makes shockingly clear they are in fact putting us all, and especially children, at risk on the roads. @transenv.bsky.social & @cleancitiescampaign.org #Carspreading www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

We had a great time at the @livingstreets.bsky.social Walking Summit this week! We led a walkshop looking at how outdoor advertising shapes & alters how we feel about public spaces. We finished by doing a "cover-up", reclaiming space from advertising to share our visions for a walkable city ❤️