TY - JOUR
T1 - Tobacco on the web
T2 - Surveillance and characterisation of online tobacco and e-cigarette advertising
AU - Richardson, Amanda
AU - Ganz, Ollie
AU - Vallone, Donna
PY - 2015
Y1 - 2015
N2 - Background Despite the internet’s broad reach and potential to influence consumer behaviour, there has been little examination of the volume, characteristics, and target audience of online tobacco and e-cigarette advertisements. Methods A full-service advertising firm was used to collect all online banner/video advertisements occurring in the USA and Canada between 1 April 2012 and 1 April 2013. The advertisement and associated meta-data on brand, date range observed, first market, and spendwere downloaded and summarised. Characteristics and themes of advertisements, as well as topic area and target demographics of websites on which advertisements appeared, were also examined.Results Over a 1-year period, almost $2 million werespent by the e-cigarette and tobacco industries on the placement of their online product advertisements in the USA and Canada. Most was spent promoting two brands: NJOY e-cigarettes and Swedish Snus. There was almost no advertising of cigarettes. About 30% of all advertisements mentioned a price promotion, discount coupon or price break. e-Cigarette advertisements weremost likely to feature messages of harm reduction (38%) or use for cessation (21%). Certain brands advertised onwebsites that contained up to 35% of youth (
AB - Background Despite the internet’s broad reach and potential to influence consumer behaviour, there has been little examination of the volume, characteristics, and target audience of online tobacco and e-cigarette advertisements. Methods A full-service advertising firm was used to collect all online banner/video advertisements occurring in the USA and Canada between 1 April 2012 and 1 April 2013. The advertisement and associated meta-data on brand, date range observed, first market, and spendwere downloaded and summarised. Characteristics and themes of advertisements, as well as topic area and target demographics of websites on which advertisements appeared, were also examined.Results Over a 1-year period, almost $2 million werespent by the e-cigarette and tobacco industries on the placement of their online product advertisements in the USA and Canada. Most was spent promoting two brands: NJOY e-cigarettes and Swedish Snus. There was almost no advertising of cigarettes. About 30% of all advertisements mentioned a price promotion, discount coupon or price break. e-Cigarette advertisements weremost likely to feature messages of harm reduction (38%) or use for cessation (21%). Certain brands advertised onwebsites that contained up to 35% of youth (
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U2 - 10.1136/tobaccocontrol-2013-051246
DO - 10.1136/tobaccocontrol-2013-051246
M3 - Article
C2 - 24532710
AN - SCOPUS:84932598224
VL - 24
SP - 341
EP - 347
JO - Tobacco Control
JF - Tobacco Control
SN - 0964-4563
IS - 4
ER -