19 Dec 1997
| by KAREN YATES
in a plea to the Government to tighten
rules on financial ads. Nationwide says the ASA is impotent...The Nationwide Building Society has called for a more powerful
Advertising Standards Authority in a plea to the Government to tighten
rules on financial ads. Nationwide says the ASA is impotent as it cannot
punish offenders and allows suspect ads to run while being investigated.
The indications ...
19 Dec 1997
| by STEFANO HATFIELD
Hinton attacks the cosy world of adland s
creatives... the ASA slams the Consumer Association over a ...
It s not the obvious play on a very obvious swear word that the
original was. The ASA s Caroline Crawford on f ...
12 Dec 1997
| by JOHN TYLEE
cancer victims and claim: You
might decide that meat, like cancer, is best avoided.
The ASA ...
changes.
Meanwhile, the ASA has warned Bass to take greater care with future
advertising after ...
of Hoola, superimposed on the quiff in his hair.
But the ASA has cleared Bean Andrews Norways ...
12 Dec 1997
| by MIKE BEESTON, a director at CHBi
festivals to country fairs
(does the ASA monitor these?). As such, it s a working Website designed ...
28 Nov 1997
| by ELEANOR TRICKETT
Competition Bill amid fears that the ASA s
codes and copy clearance procedures could be rendered unlawful ...
is in response to a growing tendency by
advertisers operating in highly competitive markets to have ASA ...
Rights
Bill and the Competition Bill will affect not only the ASA quite
fundamentally but all ...
21 Nov 1997
| by GIDEON SUMMERFIELD
the ASA is driving such bodies away from conventional media
and on to the Internet.
John Sauren, a campaign director at Greenpeace UK, commented: The ASA
is a reactionary body. In denouncing ...
1.6 million hits
between May and August.
In the past, the ASA has upheld complaints against ...
21 Nov 1997
| by CLAIRE BEALE
.
Then there was the Nissan ad, also in the ASA report, which showed a man
clutching his balls with the strapline, Ask ...
14 Nov 1997
| by JOHN TYLEE
jeans, which carried the headline, 'Put the boot in.' But the ASA rejected claims the poster ...
the prevailing mood of 'girl power'.
At the same time, the ASA has found the Japanese carmaker, Nissan ...
.'
The ASA said the ad might lead some consumers to believe the company had
developed a product ...
14 Nov 1997
| by MAIRI CLARK
by the International
Fund for Animal Welfare, which had asked for a judicial review of the
ASA s order ...
courts and would call on the ASA to change its codes which, it
claimed, prevented pressure groups from publicising their causes
effectively.
IFAW executives claimed the ASA s ruling was biased because ...
14 Nov 1997
| by HARRIET GREEN
practice the ASA condemns as
misleading.
The ASA s action brings such ads in line with those ...
to make the kind of price claims not permitted to
other advertisers.
ASA executives carried out ...
to advertise fares that included variable
foreign duty charges.
But Matti Alderson, the ASA s director ...