Tag: Stop Funding Hate

Stop Funding Hate and Ethical Consumer launch a campaign on how to make hate unprofitable

Stuart Mitchell

Stop Funding Hate and Ethical Consumer have teamed up to launch a new set of guides supporting individuals and organisations to challenge the hate and social divisiveness present in our media. Some UK publications are using hateful content to generate sensationalist stories, increase sales and push social division. Advertisers are a major part of their business model, providing up to half of many companies’ revenues. With hate crime on the rise in the UK, Stop Funding Hate and Ethical Consumer are making hate unprofitable by persuading advertisers to pull their…

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Ethical Marketing Podcast – 2 – Richard Wilson from Stop Funding Hate about Ad Placement and so much more

Stuart Mitchell

Today we launch the second of our podcasts. This month Hannah and I chat to Richard Wilson from Stop Funding Hate about Ad Placement, GB News, and a whole host of other topics. This month Hannah and Stuart chat to Richard Wilson from Stop Funding Hate about Stop Funding Hate GB News and Ad Placement as well as a whole host of other topics. Richard is the Director and co-founder of Stop Funding Hate, and sits on the Board as an Executive Director. He previously worked in fundraising for Amnesty…

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Co-op AGM backs Stop Funding Hate

Stuart Mitchell

96% of the Co-op Group annual general meeting has voted in favour of a motion on responsible advertising. The motion notes “the concern from the United Nations and hate crime experts that some media outlets in the UK are fuelling and legitimising prejudice and an increase in hate crime” and calls on the Board to review existing policy and “prepare an ethical advertising policy that puts controls in place to ensure adverts do not appear in media that are incompatible with co-operative ethics, values and principles”. The member motion was…

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Blackmail or Brand safety ?

Stuart Mitchell

At the end of November retailer Paperchase stopped a promotion that they were running with British tabloid the Daily Mail.  They did this after there was a backlash on social media from  customers over the brand working with the Daily Mail. This action was highlighted by UK activism group Stop Funding Hate. Since this hit the headlines there has been a clutch of people stating what they think, including quite a few people from within the marketing industry. The line from a lot within the industry seems to be that…

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Stop Funding Hate Launches Christmas Campaign with Buster the Dog

Stuart Mitchell

Stop Funding Hate has launched its own Christmas Campaign featuring the star of last years John Lewis ad. The campaign highlights the fact that companies such as John Lewis and Sainsbury’s are still advertising in divisive media such as the Daily Mail. Buster the Boxer, the star of John Lewis’s 2016 Christmas advert, has spoken out in a heartfelt video, pleading with John Lewis and other stores to stop funding hate. The Boxer dog was over the moon when he got the job with John Lewis last year but watching…

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