Critics contend some fast food chains' ads are too risque and need to be scaled back. Restaurants like Hardee's, Carl's Jr. and Burger King use sexual innuendo to sell burgers.

Fast food restaurants spend a lot of money on TV and print commercials. In 2012, the industry spent $4.6 billion on advertising, with much of that money geared toward targeting children and teens ...

A print ad from 2017 showed actual BK restaurants on fire, with the line, "Flame grilled since 1954;" or last year, for the introduction of its new app, BK adopted GPS technology.

In good news, fast-food TV ads viewed by children ages 6 to 11 decreased 10 percent between 2009 and 2012, according to the report, from researchers at the Yale Rudd Center for Food Policy & Obesity.

NEW YORK -- Provocative may be the stuff of fast-food ads in good times, but in tough times, tolerance for the risqué runs short, especially among franchisees. Fast-food chains Burger King and ...

But the study concerned national advertising from 2009, and the youth-focused marketing practices of fast food have since then improved, by some measures.

2022 has already graced us with some disruptive print ads that have made a serious impact in terms of creativity, messaging and delivery. Here, print and design experts Solopress investigate the five ...

While fast-food purveyors may have reduced advertising during traditional kids shows, researchers found that youngsters were still being exposed to similar ads geared at adults and teens during TV ...

Powell, for example, found fast-food commercials account for as much as 23 percent of the food-related ads kids see on TV. Others have estimated children see fast-food commercials tens of ...

Advertising to kids. In recent years, fast-food restaurants such as McDonald's have pledged to advertise more foods that are "better for you" to children under 12, abiding by their pledge to ...

Hispanic preschoolers see 290 Spanish-language fast food TV ads each year, the study concluded. The study will be presented today at the American Public Health Association’s annual meeting.