By Staff on April 24, 2013
Well we’re all for a bit of cheeky advertising and marketing but when you call your soft drink Pussy and run a campaign saying “The drink’s pure, it’s your mind that’s the problem,” and the ad gets banned (by the ASA) what do you expect? Anyway that’s what’s happened to Pussy drinks in the UK [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative, News | Tagged ad ban, asa, beattie mcguinness bungay, drinks, Holly Branson, oed, pussy, Trevor Beattie
By Stephen Foster on April 10, 2013
American Apparel’s in trouble again with the UK’s ad regulatory body the ASA, this time for ‘overtly sexual’ images on its website. To its great delight, no doubt. These are deemed to be ‘voyeuristc’ and to ‘objectify women,’ among other shocking crimes. So they’ve been banned. I don’t know how to put this politely – [...]
Posted in Clients, Creative, News, PR | Tagged ad ban, american apparel, asa, ladies, website
By Stephen Foster on December 12, 2012
Aaargh! The UK ad watchdog The Advertising Standards Authority is investigating the Morrisons Christmas campaign because some people have complained that the main ad is sexist: It’s a joke you muppets – and half the population is female. Would it have been OK with a stressed bloke? And, we read, that The Kennel Club, which [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Media, News, PR | Tagged advertising standards authority, asa, christmas pudding, complaints, dog, kennel club, Morrisons
By Stuart Smith on December 5, 2012
Whatever are the people at Sodastream complaining about? Having their ad pulled from television – in this case by the donkeys at the TV advertising clearing house Clearcast – is a gift. It’s the sort of thing Rupert Howell and his team at HHCL used to have wet dreams about – the possibility of the [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative, Media, News, PR | Tagged ad ban, Alex Bogusky, asa, clearcast, code of advertising practice, common agency, free the buggle, sodastream
By Stephen Foster on November 14, 2012
Not much is going right for Toyota at the moment, it’s just had to recall 2.7m cars in the UK because of a problem with the steering wheel. You’d expect them to check this rather important bit of kit first wouldn’t you? Makes you wonder why they don’t just give you the parts and get [...]
Posted in Clients, Creative, Media, News | Tagged ad ban, advertising standards authority, asa, grand theft auto, gt86, L'Oreal, product recall, toyota
By Stuart Smith on October 25, 2012
No surprise that the Advertising Standards Authority has banned another beauty ad – this time Black Swan Actress Natalie Portman modelling Christian Dior’s mascara, on account of her eyelashes being airbrushed to artificial perfection. Much more interesting is the fact that the complainant is not some earnest advocate of “real beauty” and, er, truth in [...]
Posted in Clients, Creative, News, PR | Tagged ad ban, asa, Cheryl Cole, dior, L'Oreal, Natalie Portman ad, Rachel weisz
By Stuart Smith on August 9, 2012
You have to feel a little sorry for Guy Parker (left) and his team at the UK’s Advertising Standards Authority. Every now and then an issue comes along with a screaming public health warning blazoned all over it – “Highly Toxic, On No Account Handle.” Yet they manfully don the protective gear and attempt to [...]
Posted in Clients, News, Politics | Tagged advertising standards authority, Andrew Wakefield, asa, big pharma, children, Guy Parker, mmr, vaccination
By Stuart Smith on June 8, 2012
An amusing industry spat has broken out between the Chartered Institute of Marketing and just about everyone else over the way the industry has been handling the vexed issue of marketing to children. One year into the Bailey era, the CIM has released research that apparently shows 85% of parents are unaware of the Government-sponsored [...]
Posted in Agencies, Politics, Research | Tagged advertising association, asa, Chartered Institute of Marketing, David Cameron, David Thorp, Ian Twinn, isba, Letting Children Be Children, Mark Lund, Reg Bailey, The Bailey Report
By Stephen Foster on May 30, 2012
Phones4U’s Omen-style ad from Adam & Eve was the most complained about of 2011 in the UK, according to the latest report from ad regulator the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA). So that’s another box ticked. Phones4U says it was “an absolute triumph of creative and impactful advertising” and the ASA refused to ban it despite [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative, Media, News | Tagged 50 years old, adam & eve, advertising standards authority, asa, horror story, most complaints 2011, omen-style ad, phones4u, Youtube
By Stephen Foster on April 4, 2012
American Apparel is in the doghouse again, under the hammer from the UK’s ad regulator the Advertising Standards Authority for “pornographic and exploitative” ads showing young women in and out of their smalls. The subsequent ban won’t bother AA one little bit as the publicity will make the company even more famous. Just as contentiously, [...]
Posted in Clients, Creative, Media, News | Tagged ad ban, advertisiing standards authority, american apparel, asa, bodywear, bulging Becks, David Beckham, h&m, pornographic ads, uk ad regulators
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