Tag Archives: asa

Tesco and BBH craft the scary ‘Goof of the Year’

Tesco now has its “very own filter that you can use across TikTok, Instagram and Snapchat,” the supermarket giant says. And it’s certainly succeeded in frightening the horses according to the latest tally of complaints to the UK’s Advertising Standards ...

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Has the UK’s ASA overstepped the mark in HSBC climate change ad ban?

Should the UK’s ad regulator the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) be a climate change warrior? Looks a bit like that as the venerable body (which has mostly steered clear of damaging controversy) now has an Environment and Climate Change Project ...

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ASA hits the right note as it tries to rebuild trust in ads

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 ...

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ASA deals with adland outbreak of Tourette’s

UK adland regulator the ASA is dealing with a seeming outbreak of Tourette’s this Christmas – our old friend BrewDog is in trouble again (this time with the assistance of Uncommon Creative Studio) for its motherfucker poster (it doesn’t actually ...

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Reed Smith: what the new rules on gender stereotyping mean for advertisers

By Nick Breen and Caroline O’Doherty In May this year the Committee of Advertising Practice (CAP) published a consultation paper outlining a proposed new rule tackling gender stereotyping in advertising. The draft rule is: “Advertisements must not include gender stereotypes ...

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