Thread by @CollectiveShout

Ad industry self-regulators @AANA_says and @Ad_Standards will merge boards this week in a move aimed at reducing 'unnecessary cost and complexity in the self-regulatory system'.

(Read more via @Mumbrellanews:

mumbrella.com.au/aana-and-ad-st…)

For 10 years we've documented the failures of the self-regulated ad industry and how rather than upholding community interests, self-regulation actually harms them.

(Read more on the failures of self-regulation here: collectiveshout.org/reasons_why_ad…)

#WomenNotObjects #EndSexploitation

In this recent blog we compiled a number of degrading, sexist and porn-themed ads that @Ad_Standards endorsed:

collectiveshout.org/how_ad_standar…

#WomenNotObjects #EndSexploitation

Last year we asked our election candidates to support a new ad regulation regime to ensure all ads in public spaces are free from images and messages that are unsuitable for kids - especially images + messages which sexually objectify women.

More: collectiveshout.org/write_to_your_…

Last year we made a submission to the @AANA_says Code of Ethics review.

We said the Code + self-regulation were failing our communities.

We urged them to consider evidence of the real-life harms of sexually objectifying portrayals of women.

More:
collectiveshout.org/submission_to_…

We recently asked the House of Reps Standing Committee on Social Policy and Legal Affairs to revisit its 2011 call for a self-funded co-regulatory system if the self-regulated system failed to clean up its act.

(Read more about the 2011 report: collectiveshout.org/reclaiming_pub…)

We'll be watching with interest to see how the merge plays out and whether it serves to stop degrading, sexist and porn-style representations of women in advertising.

#WomenNotObjects #EndSexploitation