ChasNote

Ugh. Does it get lower? From Ad Age, McDonalds is running ads on elementary-school report cards in Florida.

“The Golden Arches picked up the $1,600 cost of printing report-card jackets for the 2007-2008 school year in Seminole County, Fla., in exchange for a Happy Meal coupon on the card’s cover. With 27,000 elementary school kids taking their report-card jackets home to be signed three or four times a year, that’s less than 2 cents per impression.”

Meanwhile,

“Last summer, McDonald’s joined the Better Business Bureau’s Children’s Food and Advertising Initiative. Participants, including Kraft Foods, General Mills and Burger King, have agreed to limit advertising to children under 12 and focus on better-for-you options. The reductions were to have been apparent by January 2008. The McDonald’s sponsorship will carry through the end of this school year.”

Here’s “sponsored printing” that I support, a Dutch service called StudyPrint (from Springwise).