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 ...
13 Dec 1996
| by RICHARD COOK
of its judgments made earlier this year.
The ruling, which helps restore the ASA s authority ...
Stores Group.
At the heart of the dispute were two ASA rulings in May 1995 on national
press ads for the Dixons and Curry s brands. A competitor made six
complaints, four of which were upheld by the ASA. One ...
12 Dec 1996
promotions agency following a two-way pitch with Interfocus.
The ASA has backed a complaint by Eric ...
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 ...
06 Sep 1996
. The man was later
executed.
The ASA ordered the ad to be pulled, claiming the picture had ...
hearts under the strapline, United
colours of Benetton. The ad, which was banned by the ASA, provoked ...
ticking-off from the ASA
for making misleading claims in ads for British Airways, Dixons ...
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 ...
12 Jul 1996
and decency, will be
discussed at an ASA seminar on 30 July. Bookings are available through
Mandi Hunt ...
27 Jun 1996
to run in
magazines which the ASA considers have younger and more broad-minded
readerships. Nobody...We never thought we d see the day - but is the famously politically
correct Benetton guilty of racism? Withdrawn from poster sites earlier
this year, its right-on human hearts ad has been allowed to run in
magazines which the ASA considers have younger and more broad-minded
readerships. Nobody ...
12 Apr 1996
| by CLAIRE BEALE
come as the ASA has ruled that the latest poster campaign
from Benetton, featuring three human hearts, must be removed from poster
sites around the country. The ASA believes that the ad is too offensive ...
have already been given an ASA warning.
The Outdoor Advertising Association should consider ...
07 Mar 1996
to take the ASA s advice but are warned
that the ad s content has the potential to cause widespread offence .
An ASA spokesman said that Benetton s previous ads had attracted censure
before. In 1991, in the wake of its newborn baby ad, which was
subsequently banned, the ASA received a total ...