08 Dec 2006
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Company: Advertising Standards Authority (ASA), Mid City Place, 71 High
Holborn, London WC1V.
Work tel ...
, the pressures on the one-time
choirboy have been intense. The need to impose the ASA's authority on
new ...
01 Dec 2006
Politicians and the public pay little heed to the ASA as it quietly
carries out its job ...
in their usual knee-jerk fashion by declaring the ASA toothless
and demanding a big stick be taken to the miscreants. Smith is right to say people need to be made more aware of what the ASA
is and what it does ...
01 Dec 2006
| by Andy Grice
Authority, he didn't pull his punches. Asked how
he saw the challenges facing the ASA, the former culture ...
- and the ASA is funded by the industry, not the public
purse. Smith shrugged off the political pointscoring but allowed himself a
chuckle: if the Tories don't know how the ASA works, how can the public?
So a drive ...
10 Nov 2006
July 2007. His appointment is for an initial
term of four years. The ASA chairman appoints members of the ASA board, which decides if ads
comply with the advertising code. "The ASA is an example of self ...
and distinguished, but in Chris
Smith, the ASA and the industry have secured an equally outstanding
appointment ...
10 Nov 2006
that system.
Equally odd is that while the ASA was once the bete noir of Labour
politicians and pressure groups, views about it have turned full circle.
So much so that the most virulent criticisms of the ASA ...
the ASA regulates an internet where the line between ads and
editorial grows increasingly blurred. Leaning ...
06 Oct 2006
The ASA's rulings against Smirnoff Ice and WKD may set a difficult precedent, Noel Bussey says...., for Smirnoff Ice and
WKD. The ASA ruled that the ads had a strong appeal to under-18s. This put
them ...
,
something the ASA ruled the Smirnoff Ice and WKD campaigns did. Diageo disagrees, and believes that it has ...
change the way in
which alcohol advertising is created in the future. One of the points that the ASA ...
06 Oct 2006
by the Broadcast Advertising Clearance Centre. It seems that the real bone of contention, though, is that the ASA ...
that one of the characters in the
ads is part of an Icelandic rap metal band. This gives the ASA grounds
to argue there was a link with celebrity lifestyle (despite the band's
lack of a UK presence). The ASA ...
29 Sep 2006
The ASA ruled that the campaign can never be shown again because it
appealed to underage drinkers. The ruling follows new rules on alcohol advertising on television, which
came into force in January last year ...
during the development
of the campaign, ensuring unequivocal adult appeal." Almond warned that the ASA ...
18 Aug 2006
The Advertising Standards Authority has ruled that Walkers misled customers when promoting the reduction of salt in its Walkers Crisps brand in a direct mail campaign. It decided that Walkers omitted information relating to the recommended salt intake for young children.
21 Jul 2006
blog after news of an ASA ruling on Talk Talk's "free" broadband ads