Karen Middleton, University of Portsmouth, UK AdRegulationJA@gmail.com Kristina Auxtova, University of Edinburgh Business School, Scotland Lauren Gurrieri, RMIT University, Australia Sean Sands, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia Deadline: July 31, 2026 Call link Advertising regulation is becoming increasingly important as governments, industry bodies and international organizations respond to mounting concerns over online harms, misinformation, sustainability, and

Special issue of the Journal of Advertising on Social Change and the Role of Advertising Regulation: New Challenges and Opportunities. As advertising grapples with AI generated content, platform governance, online harms, sustainability claims and consumer vulnerability, this issue seeks theoretically grounded and empirically rich work that advances our understanding of how advertising regulation shapes markets and social outcomes. We warmly welcome conceptual, empirical and m