Anosmia prevents people from smelling any odors.
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People with anosmia have no sense of smell, and there is no cure for the condition.
Nottingham City Council are in trouble over a series of anti-begging posters – it’s important to know if their claims stack up.
Your brain picks up more than you’re aware of.
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It has long been claimed that subliminal messages work. Now two studies have set the record straight.
The advertising industry has a long and chequered history of objectifying women.
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When the inevitable backlash happens, little changes.
Something’s not right.
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Social media feedback has made businesses think twice about what makes a good customer.
On the set in Soweto of a makeover television show.
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TV talk and makeover shows have a preference for spectacle and conflict. But new collaborative models may be the future.
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Marketers take advantage of the fact that children sometimes can’t recognise the difference between product placement and advertising.
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The food industry says it wants to help in the fight against obesity – but it needs regulation.
The advertising Don.
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It’s the adverts we notice least which work the most.
Tracking what you stop to pay attention to and what you ‘don’t see’ can tell us a lot about what might be going on inside your mind.
Eye-tracking technology helps us understand how people interact with their environment. This can improve policy and design, but can also be a tool for surveillance and control.
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Both Trump and Clinton’s reference to children in their campaigns could be cause for concern.
Self-regulation of advertisements in South Africa is facing a rethink.
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The current system for regulating advertising in South Africa is dependent on the buy-in of the advertiser. But this may be about to change.
Promotional messages are everywhere.
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As customers gain more control of their media environment, advertisers have to go to greater lengths to get their brand name seen, known and remembered.
Gotta catch ‘em all.
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The spontaneous success of Pokémon Go shows how powerful internet memes can be.
Collingwood president Eddie McGuire recently courted controversy with comments about journalist Caroline Wilson.
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The growing trend for ads to attract media attention for being outrageous or offensive has led to a conflation of sex and sexism that is doing great harm.
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Action on Sugar doesn’t think much of David Cameron’s childhood obesity strategy, but will May do any better?
The idea of regulating what is ‘true’ in political speech is neither new nor easy.
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‘Mediscare’, Brexit and the negative-gearing campaign have all demonstrated that it is time for tighter regulation on truth in political advertising.
In the pink? Betting companies have been on our screens in the hunt for gamblers.
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There were 1.39m gambling ads on television in 2012.
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It costs multiple millions to sponsor a global sports event. Why bother when non-sponsors cleverly associate themselves for next to nothing?
Bold claims from adland have left us inured to deception.
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Advertising complaints hit 37,000 in the UK last year, but companies keep chancing their arm.