No More Sports-Betting Ads!

No More Sports-Betting Ads!

No matter if it's cricket, AFL or NRL, every time we watching sport on tv, we are being bombarded with sports-betting advertisements. Sports betting is now the fastest growing level of addiction and it's because of the over-saturation of ads that we are seeing in every game.

Recent research found that;

  • Over 90% of children can recall having seen a sports betting advertisement.
  • Many children have a very detailed recall of the content of betting advertisements – including brand names, plot lines, and ‘deals’.
  • Parents thought that gambling marketing should be designated to certain times when children were unlikely ...

No matter if it's cricket, AFL or NRL, every time we watching sport on tv, we are being bombarded with sports-betting advertisements. Sports betting is now the fastest growing level of addiction and it's because of the over-saturation of ads that we are seeing in every game.

Recent research found that;

  • Over 90% of children can recall having seen a sports betting advertisement.
  • Many children have a very detailed recall of the content of betting advertisements – including brand names, plot lines, and ‘deals’.
  • Parents thought that gambling marketing should be designated to certain times when children were unlikely to be watching television.

We’ve done this before. Adverts for cigarettes were pulled out of sports for the same reasons we need to pull gambling ads. The advertising normalises a product that causes enormous damage to people's lives. It's time that the sports-betting ads are banned!

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