The report encourages advertisers, the media and the fashion industry to promote more positive body image messages. The report includes a Voluntary Industry Code of Conduct on Body Image which recommends using healthy weight models, realistic and natural images of people and disclosure when images of people have been digitally manipulated. The report also recommends...

Broadcast and cable stations donated an average of 17 seconds an hour to public service advertisements, totaling one-half of one percent of all TV airtime, according to this study. The most frequent time period for PSAs to air was between midnight and 6 a.m., accounting for 46% of donated PSAs across all stations in the...

A look at the way in which the Australian advertising industry is adapting to the challenges of the modern age of communication.

Rex Wong is a US-based IT entrepreneur and founder of AdSense. He's now the head of DAVE Networks which helps companies use video to develop online social communities. He talks with the Media Report about the way in which online companies are using people's web profiles to attract advertisers.

In recent months, two significant new studies have been released about food advertising to children on television: one in March 2007 from the Kaiser Family Foundation, and the other in June 2007 from the Federal Trade Commission. While the two studies are similar, this analysis documents how they compare, both in terms of findings and...