Article
Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
L. E. Carters-White, C. Patterson, A. Nimegeer, S. Hilton, S. Chambers
Summary: The study found two competing frames within newspaper coverage: public health and industry. The public health frame rejects HFSS product corporations sponsoring sports, calling for restrictions or bans, while the industry frame portrays sport sponsorship as corporate social responsibility, positioning the industry as good moral actors and part of the solution to obesity in children and adults.
Article
Environmental Sciences
Rachel Prowse, Kate Storey, Dana Lee Olstad, Valerie Carson, Kim D. Raine
Summary: Unhealthy food and beverage availability and sponsorship undermine healthy food practices in sport and recreation. Parents' reactions to food and beverage marketing were influenced by their perspectives on healthy food availability, marketers' motives, and mixed messages within the facility. Increasing parents' awareness of food marketing in facilities can help reduce the frequency of children's requests for unhealthy food. However, the misalignment between healthy eating promotion and the foods and beverages available in sport and recreation facilities contributes to parents' distrust of social marketing initiatives.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH AND PUBLIC HEALTH
(2022)
Article
Business
B. David Tyler, Joe Cobbs, Bridget Satinover Nichols, Vassilis Dalakas
Summary: This study found that unfairness and cultural differences are the factors most closely associated with schadenfreude. Fans with heightened emotional engagement tend to perceive the sponsoring brand as more sincere, thus increasing their interest, favorability, and intended consumption of the brand.
JOURNAL OF BUSINESS RESEARCH
(2021)
Article
Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Tara Boelsen-Robinson, Anne-Marie Thow, Nancy Lee, Tim Gill, Stephen Colagiuri
Summary: This study explores adults' perceptions and policies regarding sponsorship of unhealthy commodities in elite sports. Participants recognized the contradiction between the healthy messages of sports and the marketing of unhealthy products, while acknowledging the commercial value of sponsorship to sporting clubs. Concerns were raised about the impact of effective marketing techniques on children's exposure to unhealthy habits during sports viewing. Participants supported policies that reduced children's exposure to unhealthy commodities but expressed concerns about the financial risks to sporting clubs. Governments and sports associations were seen as responsible for implementing changes.
Article
Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Christina Zorbas, Florentine Martino, Tara Heneghan, Jane Potter, Melanie Chisholm, Adrian J. Cameron, Gary Sacks, Jaithri Ananthapavan, Kathryn Backholer
Summary: This study investigated the engagement and attitudes of Victorian parents and club officials towards the sponsorship of junior sports by unhealthy food and beverage companies. The results showed that most parents were concerned about their children's exposure to such sponsorship, while club officials believed that higher-level regulations and support are needed for transitioning towards healthier sponsorship models.
AUSTRALIAN AND NEW ZEALAND JOURNAL OF PUBLIC HEALTH
(2023)
Article
Substance Abuse
Helen Dixon, Maree Scully, Jeff Niederdeppe, Emily Brennan, Kerry O'Brien, Brian Vandenberg, Simone Pettigrew, Melanie Wakefield
Summary: This study aimed to test whether exposing spectators to counter-advertisements exposing alcohol harms alone, or exposing alcohol harms and alcohol sponsorship, before watching an alcohol-sponsored sporting event promotes less favorable attitudes and intentions towards alcohol brands and alcohol in general. The findings showed that participants exposed to counter-advertisements exposing alcohol sponsorship and harms had higher awareness of sponsor brands, less favorable attitudes towards sponsor brands and drinking beer, lower purchase intentions for sponsor brands, and perceived less image-based similarity and fit between the sporting event and sponsor brands. Both counter-advertisements also promoted lower perceptions of the appropriateness of consuming alcohol while watching sport, higher awareness of alcohol harms, and higher intentions to reduce alcohol consumption.
Article
Hospitality, Leisure, Sport & Tourism
Nina Siegfried
Summary: Since its founding in 1949, the National Wheelchair Basketball Association (NWBA) has grown to over 200 teams in the U.S. and Canada. Despite this success, NWBA programs still face funding challenges. To address these challenges, interviews were conducted with professionals in charge of sponsorship management in NWBA programs. The findings highlight unique ways NWBA programs attract sponsors, such as focusing on sponsors with an interest in the disability community and emphasizing the team's assets. Communication, evaluation, and cross-marketing opportunities were found to be key in retaining sponsors. The study offers insights for successful sponsorship acquisition and retention in current and future programs.
SPORT MANAGEMENT REVIEW
(2023)
Article
Nutrition & Dietetics
Christine Mulligan, Lauren Remedios, Tim Ramsay, Elise Pauze, Mariangela Bagnato, Monique Potvin Kent
Summary: This study found that child-targeted ads and those using characters, especially spokes characters, have a strong overall impact on children's food preferences, purchase intents, and pester power. These findings support the implementation of comprehensive marketing restrictions to protect children.
FRONTIERS IN NUTRITION
(2023)
Article
Medicine, General & Internal
Elisabeth Demers-Potvin, Martin White, Monique Potvin Kent, Claudia Nieto, Christine M. White, Xueying Zheng, David Hammond, Lana Vanderlee
Summary: This study examined adolescents' media viewing habits, associations between media viewing and self-reported exposure to unhealthy food and beverage advertising, and differences in trends among younger and older adolescents in six high and upper middle-income countries. The findings showed that adolescents spend a significant amount of time on screen-based media and have high rates of social media usage. Additionally, a considerable percentage of adolescents reported exposure to unhealthy food and beverage advertising. These findings support the need for policies that restrict marketing of unhealthy food and beverages appealing to adolescents on screen-based media.
Article
Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Nan Lei, Zechen Liu, Lin Xiang, Lihong Ye, Juan Zhang
Summary: This study assessed F&B ads on television during the Chinese New Year holiday in Beijing targeted at children aged 4-14 years. More than 55% of the ads were classified as unhealthy for children, with savory snacks, milk drinks, and cakes/sweet biscuits being the most frequently advertised categories. Unhealthy F&B ads were more likely to use promotional characters, brand benefit claims, and health claims than permitted F&B ads.
Review
Endocrinology & Metabolism
Alexandra Chung, Christina Zorbas, Devorah Riesenberg, Ainslie Sartori, Kelly Kennington, Jaithri Ananthapavan, Kathryn Backholer
Summary: Unhealthy food marketing can influence people's preferences and consumption, and should be restricted by government policies; Existing studies mainly focus on advertising prevalence, but lack evaluation of the impact of implemented policies; Policy implementation requires collaboration, leadership, and overcoming industry lobbying, among other factors.
Article
Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Monique Potvin Kent, Julia Soares Guimaraes, Meghan Pritchard, Lauren Remedios, Elise Pauze, Mary L'Abbe, Christine Mulligan, Laura Vergeer, Madyson Weippert
Summary: This study examined and compared children and adolescent's exposure to food advertising on television in Canada over a year in a self-regulatory environment. It found that children viewed an average of 2234.4 food ads/person/year, while adolescents viewed 1631.7 ads. Despite self-regulatory policies, children's exposure to unhealthy food and beverages remains high.
Article
Nutrition & Dietetics
Claudia Nieto, Alejandra Jauregui, Alejandra Contreras-Manzano, Monique Potvin Kent, Gary Sacks, Christine M. White, Elise Pauze, Lana Vanderlee, James F. Thrasher, Simon Barquera, David Hammond
Summary: The study examined adults' self-reported exposure to various marketing strategies and locations across five countries. The findings revealed that adults in Mexico reported the highest exposure to unhealthy food marketing strategies and locations.
JOURNAL OF NUTRITION
(2022)
Article
Pediatrics
Claudia Nieto, Fiorella Espinosa, Isabel Valero-Morales, Emma Boyland, Monique Potvin Kent, Mimi Tatlow-Golden, Eduardo Ortiz-Panozo, Simon Barquera
Summary: This study examined the extent and nature of Mexican children's and adolescents' exposure to digital food marketing during recreational internet use. The results showed that ready-made foods were the most frequently marketed products, and brand characters were the most commonly used marketing technique. Children and adolescents typically saw 2.7 food marketing exposures per hour, 8 daily exposures during weekdays, and 6.7 during weekends. Most of the marketed products were not suitable for marketing to children. The findings highlight the need for evidence-based mandatory regulations on digital media by the Government.
Article
Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Kelly Garton, Sarah Gerritsen, Fiona Sing, Karen Lin, Sally Mackay
Summary: This study examines the limitations of the voluntary Children's and Young People's Advertising (CYPA) Code in protecting children from harmful food and beverage marketing practices on digital platforms in New Zealand. The findings reveal that many companies continue to market unhealthy food and beverages to children despite the existence of the voluntary code, indicating limitations and loopholes in the current regulations.
Article
Substance Abuse
Philip Gendall, Christine Eckert, Janet Hoek, Jordan Louviere
Letter
Substance Abuse
Nick Wilson, Amber L. Pearson, George Thomson, Richard Edwards
Article
Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Louise Delany, Louise Signal, George Thomson
Article
Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Ryan Gage, Chris O'Toole, Andrew Robinson, Anthony Reeder, Louise Signal, Christina Mackay
PHOTOCHEMISTRY AND PHOTOBIOLOGY
(2018)
Review
Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
T. Chambers, A. L. Pearson, I. Kawachi, J. Stanley, M. Smith, M. Barr, C. Ni Mhurchu, L. Signal
Article
Psychology, Developmental
Marcus Gurtner, Ryan Gage, George Thomson, Richard Jaine, James Stanley, Moira Smith, Michelle Barr, Tim Chambers, Louise Signal
CHILD CARE HEALTH AND DEVELOPMENT
(2019)
Article
Substance Abuse
Lindsay Robertson, Claire Cameron, Janet A. Hoek, Trudy Sullivan, Louise Marsh, Elizabeth Peterson, Philip Gendall
Article
Behavioral Sciences
Moira Smith, James Stanley, Louise Signal, Michelle Barr, Tim Chambers, Alexis Balina, Cliona Ni Mhurchu, Nick Wilson
Article
Business
Leah Watkins, Robert Aitken, Ryan Gage, Moira B. Smith, Tim J. Chambers, Michelle Barr, James Stanley, Louise N. Signal
JOURNAL OF CONSUMER AFFAIRS
(2019)
Article
Sociology
Kevin Dew, Louise Signal, Jeannine Stairmand, Andrew Simpson, Diana Sarfati
JOURNAL OF SOCIOLOGY
(2019)
Article
Health Policy & Services
R. Gage, N. Wilson, L. Signal, M. Barr, C. Mackay, A. Reeder, G. Thomson
JOURNAL OF COMMUNITY HEALTH
(2018)
Article
Medicine, General & Internal
Ryan Gage, Michelle Barr, James Stanley, Anthony Reeder, Christina Mackay, Moira Smith, Tim Chambers, William Leung, Louise Signal
NEW ZEALAND MEDICAL JOURNAL
(2018)
Letter
Medicine, General & Internal
Martin Witt, Richard Edwards, Janet Hoek, George Thomson
NEW ZEALAND MEDICAL JOURNAL
(2018)
Article
Communication
Philip Gendall, Janet Hoek, Katherine Gendall
JOURNAL OF HEALTH COMMUNICATION
(2018)
Article
Business
Karine Gallopel-Morvan, Janet Hoek, Sophie Rieunier
JOURNAL OF CONSUMER AFFAIRS
(2018)