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AAA PITTSBURGH 2025 is a Wrap!

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New JCIRA podcasts have been posted.
Listen to them on:

1. YouTube playlist: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLeKSkmyS85Sz2qrIo8U62YsN_S5Zx76HO&si=6vpAjusqYyov1yJF
2. The RSS website: https://www.sukkiyoon.com/podcast
3. Keyword search “Curious and Interesting” on Apple Podcast, Google Podcasts, and Spotify
Episodes include:
- Eco-labels and influencers as drivers of sustainable consumerism
- Femvertising: Empowerment or exploitation?
- How do we measure ad creativity?
- Video ads for brand activism
- Consumer reactions to deceptive advertising claims
- Diversity washing in influencer marketing
- Green consumerism across cultures
- Synced advertising: Privacy and brand impact
Each episode is an open-access, two-minute, layman’s language summary of a paper to be published in JCIRA in the fourth issue of 2024.