According to USC, in 1970, the average person saw 500 ads a day. Now, in 2025, people view an average of 5,000 advertisements a day. While it may seem like we could simply “brush off” these images and videos and remain exempt from their messaging, studies show that ads can drastically change the...

In their first advertising campaign of 2019, razor manufacturer Gillette released a commercial bemoaning the entire male gender’s supposed complicity in phenomena ranging from bullying to sexual harassment. Although many viewers saw the ad as an encouragement for men to be “the best they can be,”...