19 Dec 1996
| by HARRIET MARSH
-creating Cantona s infamous
karate kick at a rival fan.
Complaints to the ASA included one from the French ...
-
regulation. While the ASA did not believe that readers would infer
Cantona s endorsement of the product ...
and
professionally.
We look at the ads from the point of view of the audience, says ASA
spokesman Graham ...
19 Dec 1996
| by JAMES CURTIS AND KAREN DEMPSEY
....
The Advertising Standards Authority
The ASA was criticised for playing God in some of its rulings ...
Rodgers,
the ASA chairman, was asked to resign as Tory MPs accused the Lib Dem
peer of political bias ...
. The ads
ran in some British newspapers in August and planned to hit billboards
but the ASA banned ...
12 Dec 1996
emerging from a champagne bottle. The ASA found the excessive
alcohol consumption unacceptable ...
of
Christmas ads always show high compliance.
l The ASA has won its High Court battle with Dixons and Currys on
rulings on their ads in May 1995. The stores took the ASA to court when
their appeals were ...
12 Dec 1996
promotions agency following a two-way pitch with Interfocus.
The ASA has backed a complaint by Eric ...
01 Nov 1996
| by JOHN TYLEE
agency, and the Advertising
Standards Authority.
ASA officials rejected several creative ...
of present controversies surrounding
alcohol promotion, it was unwilling to run ads without the ASA ...
which has often drawn the ASA s fire.
One ad suggests the product improves your intelligence ...
18 Oct 1996
| by JOHN TYLEE
that it is offensive and tasteless.
Forty-six people complained to the ASA about the Leith Agency s work ...
maybe I can get my Irn-Bru back.
But the complaints were thrown out by the ASA, which described ...
carpeted by the
authority for an ad which, the ASA claimed, condoned young drinkers
behaving in a ...
17 Oct 1996
| by AMANDA RICHARDS
.
The ASA this week ruled against it for making exaggerated claims about
the health benefits of its Pact ...
also found to be exaggerated and unsupported by the ASA.
MD Foods has spent pounds 5m ...
fallen foul of the ASA s rules. The ASA and advertisers have clashed
with competing expert evidence ...
17 Oct 1996
representatives, including the ASA and
Incorporated Society of British Advertisers, that Bass s Hooper s Hooch ...
12 Sep 1996
years the clear guidelines from both the ASA and the Broadcast
Advertising Clearance Centre have ...
s Hooch was reprimanded by the ASA earlier this year for
using a cartoon character likely to appeal ...
18 Jul 1996
Net gains
The Advertising Standards Authority has confirmed it is extending its
service to the Internet. A new working group has been set up to check
that the British Codes of Advertising and Sales Promotion apply to UK
advertising on the Internet.
Shell censured
The ASA has upheld three ...