Tag: PSA

Stand Up To Cancer And Major League Baseball Hit Home With Powerful New PSA – “Whatever It Takes”

Stuart Mitchell

Stand Up To Cancer (SU2C) is set to launch a new public service announcement (PSA) campaign in collaboration with SU2C Founding Donor Major League Baseball. The PSA, titled “Whatever It Takes,” features Major League players and moments from MLB’s Championship Season that underscore the message that the end of the fight against cancer is unlikely to come from a single “home run,” but rather will be the result of numerous and smaller, yet meaningful, scientific advancements that keep the fight moving forward. The broadcast PSA will debut Saturday, Oct. 28,…

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“Drive2Life” PSA Contest Invites Teens to be Creative to Help Stop Speeding

Stuart Mitchell

Speeding continues to be one of the leading causes of traffic crashes, responsible for more than a quarter of all traffic fatalities.  The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration reports that 9,536 people died in speeding-related crashes in 2015, which is why The National Road Safety Foundation is inviting teens from throughout the U.S. to submit their ideas for messages to help educate their peers and others about the dangers of speeding.  Entries are now open for the annual Drive2Life PSA Contest, with the theme “help prevent speeding.”  Scholastic, the global children’s…

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Will Ferrell in PSAs Encouraging Families to Put the Device Down During Dinner

Stuart Mitchell

Common Sense today announced the release of The Common Sense Census: Media Use by Kids Age Zero to Eight, the third installment in an ongoing series of national surveys tracking the use of media and technology among U.S. children from birth to age 8. Among the key findings is the spike in the number of young children who have their own tablet device (now 42 percent, up from 1 percent in 2011) and the amount of time children age 0 to 8 are spending with mobile devices (48 minutes, up…

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Ad Council releases new High Blood Pressure Control PSAs

Stuart Mitchell

The Ad Council have released new PSA’s to educate people more about High Blood Pressure Control. About 85 million Americans (1 in 3 adults over age 20) have high blood pressure, but only half of those individuals have their condition under control. Uncontrolled high blood pressure can lead to heart failure, heart attack, stroke, vision loss, kidney disease, and even death. However, people with high blood pressure can create a treatment plan with their doctor that can help reduce their risk for heart attack, stroke, and other  related health issues.…

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New PSAs focus on the importance of adopting teenagers from foster care

Stuart Mitchell

New public service advertisements (PSAs) launched today by the Children’s Bureau at the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Administration for Children and Families (ACF) in partnership with the Ad Council, AdoptUSKids and KBS, highlight the importance of adopting teens from foster care and emphasize that adoptive and potential adoptive parents do not have to be a perfect parent in order to adopt youth from foster care. Older children in foster care, particularly teenagers, have a hard time being adopted from foster care. Of the estimated 428,000 youth in…

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