The UK’s Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has been regulating ads for over 50 years now. At first it seemed rather a lost cause as an unruly industry largely ignored it but since then it’s become established as a mostly sensible ...
Read More »Renault’s Folies Bergere-style ‘extra va va voom’ ad brings out the puritanical ad police
I should watch the telly a bit more I suppose (I’m usually to be found reading an improving book – Turgenev perhaps – or playing a bit of Mahler). So I completely missed this Renault Clio ad from Publicis promising ...
Read More »Assorted loonies (including the ASA) take aim at the (rather good) Morrisons Christmas campaign
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 ...
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