09 May 2008
The Advertising Standards Authority is investigating an ad by the animal-rights group Peta that shows KFC's Colonel Sanders about to knife a chicken, after a complaint that it was offensive and could distress children. The caricature, which appeared on the front cover of a leaflet, is part of a campaign...
14 Dec 2007
| by Brinsley Dresden, Lewis Silkin
for the ASA Fears that the Advertising Standards
Authority's demands for substantiation for green claims have ...
ads, the ASA decides that it can solve the
resulting funding crisis by announcing that its director ...
06 Apr 2007
of
Advertising Practice. She also took on the role of director-general at
the ASA between 1999 and 2000 ...
14 Feb 2003
that saw British cinema-goers receive unsolicited text messages promoting the film Minority Report. The ASA
22 Nov 2002
The Advertising Standards Authority has upheld complaints about a direct mailing from Midland Mainline that arrived in the form of a parking ticket. The campaign, by Poulter Partners, was "misleading and distressingly implied that recipients had committed a traffic offence". - General release.
06 Sep 2002
| by IAN DARBY
, Telewest was rapped by the ASA for an ad through
Saatchis for its Talk Unlimited service that used the line ...
10 May 2002
earned its
mailshot the dubious title of 2001's most complained about ad. The ASA, not normally given ...
protection laws. Last year the ASA ran a random check on mailshots being targeted at the
UK, some of them ...
. What's more, ASA
executives have noticed that anybody responding to an offer from one ...
03 May 2002
| by JOHN TYLEE
even works for people
who love to eat fattening foods , resulted in 211 calls to the ASA. Upholding the complaints, the ASA branded the mailing as one of the
most flagrant and deceitful breaches of the code ever seen . French Connection was runner-up in the ASA's league of sinners,
attracting 142 complaints for a ...
16 Mar 2001
| by IAN DARBY
been drawn up by the CAP's copy advice team
in consultation with the DMA, are used by the ASA Council ...
23 Feb 2001
of the Year, along with an ASA rap over the knuckles for being too risque.
That said, it won Time ...