{"id":441412,"date":"2025-12-12T02:16:16","date_gmt":"2025-12-12T02:16:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/441412\/"},"modified":"2025-12-12T02:16:16","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T02:16:16","slug":"teen-social-media-ban-group-funded-by-firm-making-gambling-ads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/441412\/","title":{"rendered":"Teen social media ban group funded by firm making gambling ads"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The birthplace of the 36 Months campaign and its influential push for Australia\u2019s teen social media ban was in the boardroom of advertising production company FINCH.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">36 Months managing director Greg Attwells said that the group was born during a single May 2024 meeting between him, FINCH founder Rob Galluzzo and Nova 96.9 radio host Michael \u201cWippa\u201d Wipfli, who all became co-founders.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Elsewhere at FINCH, staff were hard at work on another campaign: TAB\u2019s \u201cGet Your Bet On\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The television <a href=\"https:\/\/finchcompany.com\/projects\/hunchland\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">advert<\/a> \u2014\u00a0which was New Zealand\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/asa.co.nz\/decision\/24-108-entain-and-tab-television-and-ondemand\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">third-most complained-about ad in 2024<\/a> \u2014\u00a0 is just one of the many gambling-related projects worked on by FINCH over the past 10 years.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The birthplace of the 36 Months campaign and its influential push for Australia\u2019s teen social media ban was&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":441413,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[56442,16759,176206,210,517,158,203640,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-441412","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mental-health","8":"tag-auspol","9":"tag-gambling","10":"tag-gambling-advertising","11":"tag-health","12":"tag-mental-health","13":"tag-technology","14":"tag-teen-social-media-ban","15":"tag-united-states","16":"tag-unitedstates","17":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115704193699051769","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441412","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=441412"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441412\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/441413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=441412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=441412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=441412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}