{"id":230,"date":"2009-03-03T13:51:51","date_gmt":"2009-03-03T13:51:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dailyfork.com\/lucky_charms_fined_for_marketing_to_children\/"},"modified":"2021-04-22T19:48:45","modified_gmt":"2021-04-22T19:48:45","slug":"lucky_charms_fined_for_marketing_to_children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyfork.com\/new\/lucky_charms_fined_for_marketing_to_children\/","title":{"rendered":"Lucky Charms Fined for Marketing to Children"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\" style=\"display: inline;\"><\/p>\n<table class=\"image left\" border=\"0\" width=\"130\">\n<tr>\n<td><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Lucky-Charms.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/dailyfork.com\/files\/lucky-charms.jpg\" width=\"130\"\/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p><\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.westislandchronicle.com\/article-308911-Wait-you-mean-marketing-to-kids-is-illegal.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">General Mills Canada was fined $2,000 for using the Lucky Charms website to advertise to children under the age of 13<\/a>. Their website included a game featuring Lucky the Leprechaun, but also contained a pop-up ad alerting users to a new version of the cereal. Apparently the pop-up was considered crossing the line, and was the cause of the fairly insignificant fine.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re not sure whether $2,000 really sends a serious statement to a company like General Mills, but we&#8217;re almost positive getting kids to play a game with Lucky the Leprechaun is a significantly more effective way of luring children to buy Lucky Charms than any pop-up ad they&#8217;ll ever come up with. <\/p>\n<p>\t\t    <!--googleoff: all-->\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>General Mills Canada was fined $2,000 for using the Lucky Charms website to advertise to children under the age of 13. Their website included a game featuring Lucky the Leprechaun, but also contained a pop-up ad alerting users to a new version of the cereal. Apparently the pop-up was considered crossing the line, and was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-general"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v15.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Daily Fork - Lucky Charms Fined for Marketing to Children<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"noindex, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Daily Fork - Lucky Charms Fined for Marketing to Children\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"General Mills Canada was fined $2,000 for using the Lucky Charms website to advertise to children under the age of 13. Their website included a game featuring Lucky the Leprechaun, but also contained a pop-up ad alerting users to a new version of the cereal. Apparently the pop-up was considered crossing the line, and was [&hellip;]\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/dailyfork.com\/new\/lucky_charms_fined_for_marketing_to_children\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Daily Fork - Food News, Restaurant Reviews, Dining Tips and Delicious Distractions\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2009-03-03T13:51:51+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2021-04-22T19:48:45+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/dailyfork.com\/files\/lucky-charms.jpg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Est. reading time\">\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"1 minute\">\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/dailyfork.com\/new\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/dailyfork.com\/new\/\",\"name\":\"Daily Fork - Food News, Restaurant Reviews, Dining Tips and Delicious Distractions\",\"description\":\"Just another WordPress site\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":\"https:\/\/dailyfork.com\/new\/?s={search_term_string}\",\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/dailyfork.com\/new\/lucky_charms_fined_for_marketing_to_children\/#primaryimage\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/dailyfork.com\/files\/lucky-charms.jpg\"},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/dailyfork.com\/new\/lucky_charms_fined_for_marketing_to_children\/#webpage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/dailyfork.com\/new\/lucky_charms_fined_for_marketing_to_children\/\",\"name\":\"Daily Fork - Lucky Charms Fined for Marketing to Children\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/dailyfork.com\/new\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/dailyfork.com\/new\/lucky_charms_fined_for_marketing_to_children\/#primaryimage\"},\"datePublished\":\"2009-03-03T13:51:51+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2021-04-22T19:48:45+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/dailyfork.com\/new\/#\/schema\/person\/344a3d021c122c2f5e35e6451886fc42\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/dailyfork.com\/new\/lucky_charms_fined_for_marketing_to_children\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/dailyfork.com\/new\/lucky_charms_fined_for_marketing_to_children\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/dailyfork.com\/new\/lucky_charms_fined_for_marketing_to_children\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"item\":{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/dailyfork.com\/new\/lucky_charms_fined_for_marketing_to_children\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/dailyfork.com\/new\/lucky_charms_fined_for_marketing_to_children\/\",\"name\":\"Lucky Charms Fined for Marketing to Children\"}}]},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/dailyfork.com\/new\/#\/schema\/person\/344a3d021c122c2f5e35e6451886fc42\",\"name\":\"admin37109\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/dailyfork.com\/new\/#personlogo\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/18e3cee52837ed0ac10348afc09abb3f726121fe9d7082c4c6d3210d0d96a3c2?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"admin37109\"},\"sameAs\":[\"http:\/\/dailyfork.com\"]}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyfork.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyfork.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyfork.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyfork.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyfork.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=230"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailyfork.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2960,"href":"https:\/\/dailyfork.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230\/revisions\/2960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyfork.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyfork.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyfork.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}