Topic: Have you seen gambling advertisements on TV? Opinion. - page 14. (Read 1737 times)

I've seen gambling ads on TV, YouTube and other platforms. Often they can be skipped after 5-12 second of watching (does not work with TV). So far my kid does not pay much attention to it, does not focus much on the context. While gambling ads are not frequent during tv breaks (from 5 ads during break, maybe 1 would be gambling related), on the internet, ads must be regulated. There are platforms huge cartoon libraries and before cartoon starts, kids watch unskippable war and violence related ads. Watching bombs, explosions, military technics and blood before watching Bambi is wrong.

I have never seen gambling advertisements on television because the government prohibits advertisers from using the media to promote their companies. And if kids watch it, they will ask adults about the game and how to play it. And after getting more information, they may try playing it with their friends.

We don't need to lie to them and provide sufficient explanation that it is gambling. I agree that gambling advertisements like this should be reduced and not be shown during hours when children are still active. Maybe it doesn't need to be banned but reduced so children don't see it too often or even see the advertisements.

The gambling ads should not be banned or disallowed. The TV just needs to control the time to broadcast it. In my country, I recall that adult advertisements were predominantly broadcasted around midnight when all the children had already gone to sleep. It's very effective in preventing our child from watching it yet tv was not also losing its frequency to be broadcasted.

The most popular sport in my country is football and it is viewed by the entire population age notwithstanding. It is normal to see several gambling advertisements, before, during, and after these soccer games. Most of the major sponsors of these games are gambling firms because they are the once that can afford it. Even most football them are bankrolled by different casinos so it is normal to see the ads on their jerseys. Large billboards and smaller ones are common in the streets of my country without any form of restrictions. Gambling advertisement is not regulated in my country but they are mandated to add the 18+ sign which shows that anyone below eighteen years is not qualified to gamble.  

You don't have to lie to kids about what they can easily get the right answers from friends and the internet. Your responsibility as an adult is to tell them the truth about gambling and inform them about the risks involved.  They should also know that they cannot gamble until they get to the statutory age. But it would be great if the government control these adverts so that they would not give rise to underage gambling and addiction

Gambling ads are pretty common here but they do have some restrictions. One of them being that they should not be shown between shows/cartoons that have been made for kids. Most often they are shown during sports events and everything related to sports because a large % of the funding for those events is coming from the gambling companies.
If done responsibly, i think the gambling ads/sponsorships are a necessary "evile" because without them, a lot of the events would literally never happen.

I think there is nothing we can do apart from accompanying our children when they are watching sports matches on television, because the gambling sites provide their funds for events in these sports, so that the events can continue so it is almost impossible for us to see that the advertisements do not appear at sporting events, and I witnessed this very massive.
In my country, usually advertisements that into the adult category, such as cigarettes and gambling which should also be included, will be broadcast starting at 10 pm, but for sports broadcasts from abroad, of course these advertisements will still appear, especially for those of us who watch them not on local television but cable television, so there is almost nothing to do because many sporting events are sponsored by gambling sites.

My country has a pretty strict control of ads on TV so the only gambling ads I've seen on TV is probably the Lottery results or during any big Pacquiao fights. Although I don't like the TV regulatory board in my country because of how much they censor and cut their shows to accomodate more advertisement to the point that airtime for ads are larger than actual shows and their morality so backwards, I still agree that gambling ads shouldn't be a thing because you can't filter out your audience, there will definitely be kids that's going to see them and we can all agree that it's not the time for them to learn about it.

Yes, it's very prevalent now a days, not just on TV though, it's on mobile phones, on the internet. And we all know that in this age, every kid in the world has access t to least one if all.


It's very different to answer, because we are not on our kids 24x7 and as much as we want to see what they are watching or seeing in those gadgets, sooner or later they will have to encounter it and maybe some of them are curious about it. So I guess that best thing to do as parent is just somewhat be on the lookout, maybe from time to time check their gadgets for something unusual. If they ask about it, then explain to them that they shouldn't be involving themselves at the young age about gambling. So it's about our responsibility as a parent or guardian to our kids and children.

Gambling ads don't just come up on TV here in my country, I mean obvious gambling ads. And depending on the the channel your are watching, assuming you are watching one of the spots channel then such ads will come up. I have seen a couple of football betting sites ads during commercials whenever am watching any football match. Besides this channel, you don't see them on other channels that are not directly related to such.
But online is a different story entirely. There are no regulations so you see different gambling ads online.

We have gambling ads on TV. We see gambling ads while watching live streams. We also see gambling ads watching videos on YouTube. There are gambling ads scattered all over social media. There are even SMS and email messages promoting gambling sites. And then we're seeing gambling platforms printed on the uniforms of athletes. Even usernames of eSports players have gambling sites attached to them.

So, it's really very hard to insulate our kids from all kinds of gambling promotions. But I don't think we have to lie to them. We need to speak the truth and educate them about gambling, perhaps that it's not for them, or that it's not for people who don't have so much money lying idly around. And, of course, don't show them that you're gambling.

In my country gambling and casino have not been legalized by the government parliament so no advertisement of gambling and casino sites are given on government television channels. However, gambling and casino sites are advertised on television channels of private companies, various social media, YouTube channels, Facebook, various gaming sites. Although gambling and casinos are not officially legalized in my country, various gambling and casino establishments have been established in different parts of my country in violation of government laws. Moreover, the popularity of new online gambling and casino sites is constantly increasing in my country, which we are constantly advertising on various social media and YouTube and private television channels.

No, do not lie to kids. Always tell them the truth or don't tell them at all.

The frequency of gambling ads should be reduced not because of kids alone but for the sake of everyone else who make be struggling with quitting and gambling and then get triggered by it. Parents can protect their kids by downloading some sort of software to block ads and gambling websites if it is possible.

Currently, sports betting advertisements are even on the uniforms of teams and athletes, unfortunately this is something that cannot be returned.
What should you respond to your child? That sports betting is something for adults, that it is highly addictive and is harmful to us if used abusively, in the same way that you should make your children aware of the use of alcohol and cigarettes, which is also something that is permitted, however with high risk for people who use it indiscriminately.

There is no other way to deal with this, we need to teach our children that this is something "normal" and make them aware of the risks and conscious use only after they reach an age of maturity for this.

In my country, we have regulation board which manages and examines every tv shows and movies if it is suitable for its audiences. I don't think it's a good idea to show gambling advertisements on tv since kids might see it. And as we all know, at that kind of age, they tend to be very curious and showing them things about gambling might affect them. It's not good if kids were exposed in gambling in such a very young age for they still don't have the capacity to understand such things.

So, it's better if kids still have supervision with their parents or adults and so by any chance they saw gambling advertisements and they asked about it, someone can explain and tell them that it is still not appropriate for their age. I think there should be laws and policy about that, gambling advertisements should only be posted in appropriate avenues and tv is not one of them.

I'm not really getting used to TV ads like that on gambling, but most often it was seen on social media platform like Facebook and google play store. My kids and I didn't watch public television anymore, we're more exposed with social media like Facebook, youtube and google. It's kinda disturbing ads when you watch your favorite streaming videos, then suddenly their pop ups programs will appear and influencing through the winning platforms they had. I think that's not an interesting idea about advertisement, since gambling couldn't bring good future to everyone of us, but rather negative effects especially for the kids.

I have seen multiple ones but it's not that bad compared to what you are seeing in social media that asks you to play mostly on TV you've just seen their logo and very short intro on their platform and they're even not showing gambling activities because they are just partnering with the events because gambling is not allowed to be shown on TV here in our country.
 
With watching via YouTube I always use the kids account if they are watching or if not they tend to not watch TV and have seen some of those ads. We just tell them not to do it as it is a bad thing, but mostly they will ask more questions as they haven't noticed the ads.

Advertisements on televisions are very annoying and with commercial operations of television, communication companies, it is financial benefit source for them. They can ignore risk of exposure on kids to add those advertisements on television channels. However if gambling is allowed in your nation, they do not do anything wrong and illegally but as parents, you must choose channels without those advertisements or as least as possible for your kids to watch.

It is hard and requires your deep care for your kids who are very young and have yet educated and are matured enough to control their activities. I believe it is best to keep them away from gambling before they are no longer teenager and even a little bit older too.

I don't remember watching gambling ads on TV when I was a kid. I couldn't tell if it's different now since I rarely watch nowadays. I think television networks are much more regulated so gambling ads are filtered better compared to social media.

If we're talking about sponsorship banners on some sporting events then I think that's something TV networks can't handle because it's out of their contract. That's more likely an agreement between the sporting organization and the gambling promoter.

It's slowly happening in major sports organization. The Premier League has already ordered clubs to drop gambling sponsors in their shirts. Will that be enough to stop kids from getting exposed? I don't think so.

If they somehow take the initiative about gambling due to the commercials on TV, then you might as well have a serious conversation with them. Avoiding the topic could still work, but there's nothing wrong with talking about it this early when some kids pick up the situation and become more curious the more you try to push them away.

While I agree with what you said about the need for gambling ads to appear less frequently, there's not much we can do aside from looking for another solution because losing viewers and receiving complaints won't stop them from broadcasting gambling ads.

gambling is allowed in my country, the laws are very favorable to gambling in my country and the government of my country even encourages more gambling companies to come to my country. There are always advertisements for gambling websites on TV and newspapers and announcements of lottery winners are always on TV and precisely at night. but when advertisements about gambling are shown, it says prohibited for minors and it is up to each mother and father to explain to children that they should not play what they are seeing on TV, this is no different from cases in which parents They are watching TV and there is advertising for a film that involves violence and sex and the parents immediately explain to the child that they cannot do that

Another example is that there are parents who give cell phones to children aged 2 to 3 years old and above so they can watch Mikey and other animes on YouTube, these parents constantly control what the children watch, so in my opinion there is nothing wrong with having advertising gambling games on TV, parents must educate their children well so that they do not create an account at a casino while they are minors. Also, for someone to play at the casino they need money, so a child of 9 or 10 years of age cannot have money to go and play at an online casino, all it takes is for the father not to give him his debit card and not to give him cryptocurrencies that the child does not You will have money to play. There are many ways to prevent children from playing at online casinos because they are underage