Posted on 11/29/2016 9:25:40 AM PST by ColdOne
Brands advertising on Breitbart have drawn flak in recent weeks, with activists saying the website espouses racist and anti-Semitic views. A screen shot showing an advertisement for Kellogg’s Frosted Mini Wheats was part of an online campaign to get marketers to abandon the site.
“We regularly work with our media-buying partners to ensure our ads do not appear on sites that aren’t aligned with our values as a company,” said Kris Charles, a spokeswoman for Kellogg, which also makes Frosted Flakes and Special K cereal. “We recently reviewed the list of sites where our ads can be placed and decided to discontinue advertising on Breitbart.com. We are working to remove our ads from that site.”
AppNexus, one of the biggest digital advertising services, barred Breitbart from using its ad-serving tools earlier this month because, it said, the publisher violated its hate-speech rules.
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Thanks. Have plans to buy no more of that sh*t.
“I’m just glad they don’t make Cap’n Crunch”
I’ll send you my number; call me when you get the urge. And vice-versa!
Actually my family found the movie The Giver the best movie of 2015. My kids read the book growing up and they well remember the message, a very important one. Jeff Bridges was outstanding.
You must have missed the memo. Kellogg’s has long been on my ban list for their support of LGBT and gay marriage. Quaker Oats has recently been added for hating Trump. Post Cereal is banned for their crappy customer service.
I’ll buy someone else’s Raisin Bran Flakes. Hope their PR reads this. How much cereal are they shipping to Turkey and Syria?
I’ll buy someone else’s Raisin Bran Flakes. Hope their PR reads this. How much cereal are they shipping to Turkey and Syria? Guess Kellogg would rather lose our business than hear truth about Islamists. Sounds kind of shoot off their mouth while they shoot both their own feet, eh?
The Kellog Snow Flakes have been triggered.
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