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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The ever-active UK ad regulator the Advertising Standards Authority has banned a Playboy TV lorry that’s been touring the home counties with pictures of improbably-endowed ‘ladies’ on it, exhorting the natives to retune their Freeview sets to get Playboy TV. ...

The Advertising Standards Authority must be rueing the day they had their remit extended to website jurisdiction, after unwittingly becoming a political football in an increasingly virulent fracas over the integrity of Tory Party chairman Grant Shapps. It all began ...

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 ...

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 ...

The last time the UK Department of Health tried to put the frighteners on smokers with a television advertising campaign, it got into trouble with the Advertising Standards Authority. Apparently, this 2009 ad was much too scary for children. And ...

The UK’s Advertising Standards Authority has banned a McCann Erickson ad for L’Oreal’s Revitalift Repair anti-ageing cream as the picture of L’Oreal ‘brand ambassador’ and Oscar-winning actress Rachel Weisz was ‘digitally enhanced.’ Actually it’s had more retouching than the average ...