article_snippet: Junk food firms are targeting children with adverts for Haribo sweets and Coca-Cola on YouTube, an investigation has found.
article_snippet: Children watching video bloggers would breach the strict guidelines in place for television which ban them being screened close to children’s programs.
article_snippet: But there are no rules in place for YouTube and YouTube are being played before popular short films watched by up to five million children.
article_snippet: Experts say that Children watching video bloggers give children a subconscious craving and make children inclined to ‘grab the nearest sugary thing around.
article_snippet: But a spokesman for YouTube said gambling adverts weren’t shown to children and teenagers as gambling adverts could only be seen by viewers who had confirmed gambling adverts were over 18.
article_snippet: Although the watchdog Ofcom has enforced strict rules banning junk food adverts being screened close to children’s TV programs, children do not apply to YouTube.
article_snippet: Experts have warned of the dangers of advertising such products to young people, adding if young people were broadcast on terrestrial children
article_snippet: ’s television, young people would likely break Advertising Standards Authority rules .
highlights_snippet: Children watching video bloggers also being unwittingly exposed to Children watching video bloggers .
  
highlights_snippet: Children watching video bloggers, if broadcast on terrestrial children's TV, would be likely to break Advertising Standards Authority rules .