Adfree Cities

A network of groups challenging corporate outdoor advertising and reclaiming public space for art, community and nature.

[Adfree Cities @adfreecities]

We’ve made a decision to leave X. We will no longer post from this account or monitor it regularly.

Find us now on
✅Instagram @adfreecities
✅Bluesky @adfreecities.bsky.social
✅LinkedIn: Adfree Cities

And follow the Better Without Billboards podcast: https://t.co/n8wJZ2O3fK

[Adfree Cities @adfreecities]

It has become untenable for us to remain on X due to the contradiction between our values of community, cooperation and justice, and the values and politics of X’s owner, which are now increasingly intertwined with the architecture of the platform.

[Adfree Cities @adfreecities]

We’ve made a decision to leave X. We will no longer post from this account or monitor it regularly.

Find us now on
✅Instagram @adfreecities
✅Bluesky @adfreecities.bsky.social
✅LinkedIn: Adfree Cities

And follow the Better Without Billboards podcast: https://t.co/n8wJZ2O3fK

[Adblock Hackney @AdblockHackney]

Spotted in Hackney. Don't buy into consumer capitalism that's killing the world.
End Genocide & Ecocide
#ZapGames #BlackFriday

[Adfree Cities @adfreecities]

@adblockcardiff Fantastic news! Deffo call it a victory for the campaign 😃

[Natalie Bennett @natalieben]

Gambling - an industry out of control doing enormous damage to individuals and communities

[Possible @_wearepossible]

With the environmental damage from the hyper-consumerism of #BlackFriday increasingly well documented, our friends at @AdfreeCities have examined the array of campaigns and initiatives to counter the surround-sound of advertising this year 👇🏽

https://t.co/sFmQZP7NUD

[Global Witness @Global_Witness]

🚨We’ve taken over https://t.co/qCX7pKuTva to demand #BigOil pay up for its role in climate disaster

Fossil fuel companies are raking in billions while record heat, floods and hurricanes destroy lives🌪️🔥

This #COP29, it's #PaybackTime for polluters💰
➡️ https://t.co/8viBcd0pFq

[Adfree Cities @adfreecities]

Great Britain lags behind Europe on gambling ad regulation.

We covered this in depth on a recent podcast episode which you can listen to here: https://t.co/nMxP0G7qay

https://t.co/coyETOK0SQ

[Scientists for Global Responsibility @ResponsibleSci]

Why is it that SUVs - vehicles designed for rugged outdoor pursuits - now clog up our streets?

Hear from Veronica Wignall @adfreecities on the malign influence of high carbon advertising in the UK, and why a tobacco-style ban is key to reduce emissions.

https://t.co/pSXVdrN7cs

[Adfree Cities @adfreecities]

We signed this letter to call for lobbyists to be locked out of COP29. Every year, lobbyists from polluting industries swarm the conference to ensure a favourable result for the fossil fuel industry. It can't go on that way. We need change.

[Fossil Free Parliament @MP_FossilFree]

🚨 BREAKING: 145 civil society groups have called on @Ed_Miliband to lock fossil fuel lobbyists out of the UK’s delegation to COP29.

Big polluters should have no place at the year’s most critical climate talks ⬇️⬇️

[Coalition to End Gambling Ads @EndGamblingAds]

Sick of seeing gambling ads?

Use our letter generator to write to your MP to demand change. It’ll take less than 30 seconds.

https://t.co/hIhu8T5c00

[Adfree Cities @adfreecities]

@globalactplan & @NEF thanks for the info on surveillance advertising & @SmartphoneFreeC something to think about in your campaign too?

[Adfree Cities @adfreecities]

What impact does advertising have on children? Our new briefing ‘Consuming Childhood’ looks at the ways that children are manipulated by ads. You can also start a conversation about this with your kids through our #Adspotters project https://t.co/8t7svcPdAb

[Adfree Cities @adfreecities]

@UKSustain @CheshireEast Amazing! Well done 💚

[Beryl Murphy @BerylMu01585530]

I've signed the petition demanding Network Rail take down the advertising screens at London Euston railway station via @AdfreeCities. You can add your name here: https://t.co/jhrFuofZDW

[Adfree Cities @adfreecities]

Have you listened to our latest podcast episode yet?

Grab your stetson and chaps and explore the Wild West of advertising regulation in the UK 🤠

https://t.co/nMxP0G7Y06

[Gambling with Lives @GambleWithLives]

When an industry consistently ruins the lives of its best customers, it must spend a lot on advertising to replace them.

#StopGamblingSuicides

[Adfree Cities @adfreecities]

If you're on the tube this week look out #ForCharlie. And wherever you are, head to https://t.co/WC7D4HfYDd. Get informed about the treatment of farm animals on RSPCA Assured farms (very far from the charity's #welfarewashing "kindness" ads) and call on RSPCA to drop the scheme

[Adfree Cities @adfreecities]

We were happy to give evidence to the @HLFoodObesity to inform this report & are pleased to see an understanding of the impact of outdoor advertising on health & the need for a comprehensive national ad ban for unhealthy food & drink @ADPHUK @UKSustain @OHA_updates @BiteBack2030

[House of Lords Food, Diet and Obesity Committee @HLFoodObesity]

📢 The Government urgently needs a plan to fix our broken food system 🛠️🍽️ and end the public health emergency 🚨 of unhealthy diets and obesity.

This is the key conclusion of our new report, out today. 📝

Read it here: https://t.co/fOTuckhDy7

[Adfree Cities @adfreecities]

Our new briefing with @FPH is now live! Public health experts in local government are calling for limits to fossil fuel advertising and sponsorship, just as we did for tobacco ads and increasingly for junk food ads.

Read the full briefing now:
https://t.co/g97pjB7Xae

[Adfree Cities @adfreecities]

Fossil fuel advertising is a public health issue! 😷

Tomorrow Adfree Cities, @badvertising11 and @FPH launch a new briefing calling for local government action to limit fossil fuel advertising and sponsorship.

https://t.co/R32tRqZXnY