Marketing And Advertising To Children
In an era of diverse marketing and advertising platforms,
entertainment and modern culture, children from all over the world
are exposed to a great number of marketing and advertising
activities.
Children represent a huge market for advertisers. In addition to
the purchasing spend they represent and the influence they exert
on their parents’ shopping decisions, children who have not yet
formed their tastes, desires and preferences become an ultimate
target for advertisers and remain as such throughout adulthood.
Children today enjoy wide access to technology and marketing
communications and it is evident that children are increasingly
media literate. Due to their vulnerability, inexperience and lack of
ability to critically reflect on the received information, advertisers
should be especially diligent in protecting these young consumers
from harmful, potentially deceptive and offensive information.