Abstract
False advertising might be understood as a type of publicity that with falseness promise a certain quality, benefit or satisfaction from a product or service. One of the areas that is vulnerable to experience this bad praxis is the children's marketing. The children's advertising present peculiarities worthy of study. The use of deceitful strategies to seduce these consumers is not always judged or contemplated by the national legislation. This reasearch tries to analyze the advertising communication in containers of children's products taking also into account the receiver's nature, his behavior when is facing the media and the factors that intercede in this communicational process. The objective is to investigate towards a categorization of the persuasive strategies, placing an emphasis on the used formats and the main characteristics of the persuasive arguments. It was analyzed a representative sample of products and services in different areas such as toy industry or the food sector. The results show and describe false advertising patterns according to the type of children's product. The article concludes with some specific legislative and educational proposals to the national context.
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