02 May 2012
| by Alex Brownsell
extension of the ASA s remit to include online claims, claiming it addressed a "widely recognised weakness ...
07 Mar 2012
| by John Reynolds
The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) received two complaints about tweets from glamour model Price and footballer Ferdinand, which formed part of promotional activity for Snickers owner Mars, undertaken by Abbott Mead Vickers BBDO.
The celebrity tweets were probed by the ASA after they seemingly ...
15 Feb 2012
| by Sarah Shearman
The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has rejected a complaint made by The Alliance for Better...group complained to the ASA that the game encouraged poor nutritional habits and an unhealthy lifestyle ...
included adult-sized T-shirts and sweatbands, were not designed to appeal to children.
The ASA ruled ...
that Children's Food Campaign (CFC) was filing what it called a "super-complaint" to the ASA, about Krave ...
09 Feb 2012
| by Gemma Charles
Authority (ASA), as part of a move to curb the online marketing of junk food to children....to hand in 54 separate complaints this morning (9 February) to the ASA, concerning offending company ...
targeted at children.
The campaign claims the "super-complaint" was issued to the ASA after ...
to children really leaves us with no choice but to submit this 'super-complaint'.
"It is time for the ASA ...
09 Feb 2011
| by Loulla-Mae Eleftheriou-Smith
, the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) cleared a late-night TV ad for a Lucozade energy drink, after claims ...
02 Feb 2011
| by Gemma Charles
Brands' online marketing content will fall into the ASA's remit in March....Standards Authority (ASA) for decades, yet despite the growing use of digital marketing communications ...
the situation as 'scandalous', adding that the ASA's response to its complaints was always 'It's nothing to do with us, guv'.
Nevertheless, the ASA has long acknowledged the loophole. Its own figures reveal ...
23 Jun 2010
| by Alex Brownsell
and has no plans to use the ad again.
The ASA agreed that the flying pigs scenario depicted in the ad ...
08 Jan 2010
| by Joe Thomas
campaign followed in June last year. Several of its outdoor ads were later banned by the ASA because ...
02 Dec 2009
| by Hadassah Nymark
the message that the women were as beautiful at the end of the evening as they were at the start. The ASA ...
24 Nov 2009
| by Fiona Ramsay
agreed to fund an extension of the ASA's remit to include search marketing on websites, reflecting ...