11 Apr 2012
| by John Reynolds
Authority (ASA), challenging whether the ad, which was heard in December last year, linked alcohol to sexual ...
time, including the possibility of meeting a potential sexual partner.
The ASA said AB InBev should ...
11 Apr 2012
| by Callum Galbraith
it is envisaged that advertisers will be penalised by the Advertising Standards Agency (ASA) if they place ...
opposition from within the industry and the ASA will need enhanced powers.
Further, there are issues ...
should be used to regulate the media.
If the ASA is not be involved, it is unclear how the proposal ...
04 Apr 2012
| by John Reynolds
The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has banned American Apparel from running a series of ads...viewed in October last year, as well as an ad in a free lifestyle magazine called Crack.
The ASA ...
, an ad it ran featuring a semi-naked young woman was banned by the ASA.
In this case, the complainant ...
was upheld, it would be applying a rule of censorship that was completely out of date.
The ASA, in its ...
26 Mar 2012
| by Gemma Charles
advertising.
"We will work with the ASA and Ofcom to examine ways to ensure that adverts promoting alcohol ...
Standards Authority (ASA) to "ensure the full and vigorous application" of ASA powers to online and social ...
behaviours in partnership with the ASA and other relevant bodies, are also mooted. ...
19 Mar 2012
| by Dean Woolley
Compliance is having an increasing impact on brands and nowhere is this felt more keenly than in advertising.
Industries such as alcohol, tobacco and even food manufacturers are all feeling the constraints of the ASA's ever more frequent introduction of regulations.
These regulations have evolved ...
07 Mar 2012
| by John Reynolds
The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) received two complaints about tweets from glamour model Price and footballer Ferdinand, which formed part of promotional activity for Snickers owner Mars, undertaken by Abbott Mead Vickers BBDO.
The celebrity tweets were probed by the ASA after they seemingly ...
29 Feb 2012
| by Loulla-Mae Eleftheriou-Smith
the airline's infamous charity calendar in marketing activity, despite the latest ad ban by the ASA....."
O'Leary thanked the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) for its ruling against two press ads ...
.
He claimed that the ruling "serves to confirm yet again what a bunch of complete idiots the ASA are ...
'Leary countered that the airline sent the ASA copies of women's magazines Cosmopolitan, Marie Claire and Vogue ...
08 Dec 2011
| by Catherine Davies and Michael Gardner
to resolve the dispute before involving the ASA, write Catherine Davies and Michael Gardner of Wedlake Bell...The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has long offered an alternative remedy to expensive ...
, competitor complaints have clearly become something of a drain on ASA resources.
In the ASA's Final ...
competitors' adverts.
Previously, the ASA only encouraged complainants to resolve any disputes ...
25 Nov 2011
| by Nicola Clark
The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has confirmed it is refusing to investigate Littlewoods...bought by their mums, has already attracted 456 complaints to the ASA. Only Phones4U's horror-themed ads have received more complaints, just over 500 in total.
An ASA spokesman confirmed members ...
that it is mothers who provide presents rather than Father Christmas".
However, the ASA insists after "careful ...
23 Nov 2011
| by Matthew Chapman and Daniel Farey-Jones
Outdoor told the ASA that after consulting the CAP Copy Advice team it declined to run the ads ...
sites across some National Rail stations.
Fellow outdoor company Clear Channel told the ASA ...
Authority (ASA) judged the outdoor ad complaints under its new tougher guidelines introduced as a result ...