10 Jul 1997
| by ANNE-MARIE CRAWFORD
The Advertising Standards Authority has upheld a complaint from The
Telegraph Group about a direct mail ad for The Times and The Sunday
Times offering a reduced subscriptions. The Telegraph objected to the
claim Savings are based on The Times at 35p, Monday to Friday , because
the Monday Times had...
18 Feb 2009
| by Hadassah Nymark
, has been banned by the ASA....The poster, for AMI Clinic, received more than 500 complaints from people who believed it to be offensive and unsuitable for display in public places, including areas surrounding schools and those with a high Jewish population. The ASA noted that the size and prominence of the message and the direct tone ...
29 Aug 1997
| by KAREN YATES
executions in the campaign, which was created by
Mellors Reay s work, will appear.
The ASA has come ...
. This culminated two weeks ago in
legal action by the insurance company, Direct Line, preventing the ASA
from including a ruling against the advertiser in its latest report.
However, an ASA spokesman said the new ...
24 Jul 1998
| by PETER ROBINSON
Client: Amateur Swimming Association (ASA)...Client: Amateur Swimming Association (ASA)
PR Team: Michael Humphreys and Partners (MH ...
of the ASA, David Sparkes, was refused a meeting
with the Department of Education and Employment ...
not taught to swim at school. A survey had been
commissioned in early 1997 by the ASA to assess the level ...
05 Feb 2008
| by Gemma Charles
and refer Ryanair to the Office of Fair Trading (OFT), despite repeated breaches of ASA regulations, has...in a sexually provocative way. The ASA claims that advertisers who persistently breach its non ...
. A spokesman for the ASA said a referral would be made only under the Control of Misleading ...
cases, sanctions are effective in bringing advertisers into line. An advertiser that uses an ASA ...
13 Feb 1997
| by JAMES CURTIS
codes. The ASA report also rapped Church Music Quarterly for allowing an
ad for Oecumuse music books...Computer games manufacturers have been heavily criticised in an
Advertising Standards Authority report. The watchdog upheld three
complaints about the sector which it felt breached taste and decency
codes. The ASA report also rapped Church Music Quarterly for allowing an
ad for Oecumuse music books ...
20 Jun 2002
Foundation press ad showing a woman with a plastic
bag over her head. The ASA agreed that children might try
07 Sep 2007
" the effects of its mascara by using a model wearing false eyelashes. In July, the ASA upheld a complaint
20 Jun 1997
| by HARRIET GREEN
.
ASA chiefs this week branded the CA s policy document a hastily cobbled
together, regurgitated and misguided report . The row was exacerbated by
the CA s failure to send the ASA a copy before it was released to the
press this week.
The CA s proposals which, it claims, will make the ASA more ...
20 Feb 2001
not to distribute a fax outlawed by the ASA as misleading.
The referral of the case to the OFT is the climax of a running battle between the ASA and the Wigan-based company which began in February 1998 after it sent a fax headed "Paedophiles in your neighbourhood".
The ASA called for the fax to be withdrawn ...