Adbusters

Adbusters Media Foundation
Founded1989 (1989)
FounderKalle Lasn and Bill Schmalz
Location
Key people
  • Kalle Lasn, co-founder and editor-in-chief
  • Bill Schmalz, co-Founder and co-publisher
  • Darren Fleet, senior editor
  • Stefanie Krasnow, senior editor
  • Douglas Haddow, senior editor
WebsiteAdbusters.org
Adbusters
(the foundation's magazine)
Cover of Issue # 98 (Nov/Dec 2011) of Adbusters
FounderKalle Lasn and Bill Schmalz
FrequencyBi-monthly
First issue1989
CountryCanada
LanguageEnglish
WebsiteAdbusters.org
ISSN0847-9097
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The Adbusters Media Foundation is a Canadian-based not-for-profit, pro-environment[1] organization founded in 1989 by Kalle Lasn and Bill Schmalz in Vancouver, British Columbia. Adbusters describes itself as "a global network of artists, activists, writers, pranksters, students, educators and entrepreneurs who want to advance the new social activist movement of the information age."[2]

As anti-capitalist or opposed to capitalism,[3] it publishes the reader-supported, advertising-free Adbusters, an activist magazine devoted to challenging consumerism. The magazine has an international circulation peaking at 120,000 in the late 2000s[4] with circulation of 60,000[5] in 2022. Past and present contributors to the magazine include Jonathan Barnbrook, Morris Berman, Brendan Connell, Simon Critchley, David Graeber, Michael Hardt, Chris Hedges, Bill McKibben, Jim Munroe, David Orrell, Douglas Rushkoff, Matt Taibbi, Slavoj Žižek, and others.

Adbusters has launched numerous international campaigns, including Buy Nothing Day, TV Turnoff Week and Occupy Wall Street,[6] and is known for their "subvertisements" that spoof popular advertisements. In English, Adbusters has bi-monthly American, Canadian, Australian, UK and International editions of each issue. Adbusters's sister organizations include Résistance à l'Aggression Publicitaire[7] and Casseurs de Pub[8] in France, Adbusters Norge in Norway, Adbusters Sverige in Sweden and Culture Jammers in Japan.[9][10]

  1. ^ "About" Archived 31 October 2011 at the Wayback Machine. Adbusters Media Foundation. Retrieved 3 October 2011.
  2. ^ "About Adbusters Archived 31 October 2011 at the Wayback Machine." Adbusters Media Foundation. Retrieved 19 December 2010.
  3. ^ Eric Pfanner. Fighting guerrilla graffiti, The New York Times, 15 March 2004
  4. ^ Hackett, Robert; Carroll, William (29 July 2006). Remaking Media: The Struggle to Democratize Public Communication. Routledge. ISBN 9781134159369.
  5. ^ "Adbusters Jan/Feb 2022 - Magdogs Marketplace". Retrieved 12 April 2022.
  6. ^ Yardsley, William (28 November 2011). "The Branding of the Occupy Movement". The New York Times. Retrieved 5 April 2012.
  7. ^ "Résistance à l'Aggression Publicitaire" (in French). Antipub.org. 13 February 2014. Retrieved 29 March 2014.
  8. ^ "Casseurs de Pub" (in French). Casseurs de Pub. Retrieved 29 March 2014.
  9. ^ "Buy Nothing Day Japan - Fight Pollution of Culture and Nature". Bndjapan.org. Retrieved 3 January 2017.
  10. ^ "Infoseek[インフォシーク] - 楽天が運営するポータルサイト". Adbusters.cool.ne.jp. 1 January 2000. Archived from the original on 29 May 2012. Retrieved 3 January 2017.