An advert by a vegan charity featuring scenes of a human baby being taken from its mother has been banned. The advert by vegan charity Viva! featured the scenes to protest against the treatment of ...

How Charity Ads Fail By Elizabeth Greene. June 13, 2002 New study shows that few ads for nonprofit causes get noticed or remembered. Nonprofit organizations frequently promote themselves with magazine ...

Social Media Giving Day reminds us of the power of digital communities to spark real-world change. But in 2025, it’s Gen Z ...

If the ads are more upbeat — showing aid recipients who are smiling, for example — they may ignore the subject's strife and put the power to transform the subject's life in the hands of rich ...

The World Wildlife Fund’s (WWF) latest out-of-home campaign has entered the top 1% of charity adverts ever tested by System1. The advert from its ‘A Prescription for Nature’ campaign achieved a 5-star ...

Readers React: Article examines Sterling charity ads, but reader questions remain. Donald Sterling and wife Shelly arrive at the Night of 100 Stars Awards Gala in Beverly Hills in 2011.

After analysing a total of 541 fundraising images, one of the major findings was that Africa continues to be over-represented in charity adverts supporting international causes. Over half of the ...

The British charity Comic Relief gets a lot of flack for its celebrity-focused fund-raising ads. One of its videos, with pop star Ed Sheeran visiting a Liberian slum, was dishonored with the "worst ...

A 2021 YouGov study showed that 66 per cent of adults in the UK believed that the gambling industry wasn’t doing enough to protect those that could be susceptible to a gambling addiction.

Charities often debate how the subjects of their fundraising ads are portrayed — but those discussions rarely include the people in the pictures. Search Query Show Search. News.