Message Recall
3 episodes - English - Latest episode: almost 3 years ago -Visual noise or valid communication? Message Recall is a podcast series discussing the history, tactics, and psychology of advertising in public spaces.
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Episodes
Beyond A Bet
July 18, 2021 23:00 - 38 minutes - 35.1 MBPeter and Tommy discuss the upcoming Gambling Act Review and ask whether it responds effectively to the gambling industry’s dramatic expansion into the markets of internet and mobile games. Online gambling had very little presence when the original act was passed, but now the landscape has changed completely. The episode looks at the effects of this boom, in particular at the opportunities presented to gambling advertisers by digital platforms. We investigate the impact of public messaging ...
All Consuming
January 12, 2021 13:48 - 28 minutes - 26.2 MBTommy and Anna investigate the evolution of digital billboards, their increasing dominance over public space and the impact on mental health and wider wellbeing. This episode gives voice to communities directly affected by digital Billboards and explores Subvertising, 'concretisation', and reviews why new Advertising technologies are an enhanced threat to personal agency and public choice. Featuring interviews with Leigh Coghill (Adblock Bristol/ Adfree Cities) and Dr Thomas Dekey...
The Hydra
August 19, 2020 08:53 - 35 minutes - 32.2 MBTommy and Anna explore how tobacco industries spent the 20th century dodging and manipulating government health and safety regulations around tobacco advertising, and continue to do so around the world today. Like the multi-headed hydra, each time an advertising method is cut off for them, tobacco companies have used perverse and enterprising tactics to continue selling their products to the masses. We discover how this industry banded together to spread confusion, fake science and misinfor...