Tag Archives: complaints

In advertising there are a couple of things you can guarantee during the first few weeks of the year. Firstly, every agency in town will be magically pulling new clients out of thin air to add on to their new ...

240 at the last count, complaining that the ad (below) is, among other things, ‘disrespectful’ and ‘cynical.’ Which is worrying for Sainsbury’s because UK ad regulator the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has banned a number of ads in recent times ...

The UK coalition government, which has managed to get its communications knickers in a fine old twist, is having a belated go at sorting things out with the formation of a new ‘centralised’ Government Communications Service. This, presumably, takes on ...

Hmm, dunno what to make of this. It’s a new Marmite ad (from A&E/DDB presumably) purporting to show ‘in danger’ jars of ‘love it or hate it’ Marmite being rescued and despatched to good homes. But it’s already attracted a ...

I was amused to read that the incoming head of comms at Ryanair (forgive the oxymoron) has “deliberately” ruled out a social media strategy. New boy Robin Kiely (left) tells us – apparently without irony – that such an initiative ...

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 ...

For once the UK’s Advertising Standards Authority has told complainants to get a life, by declining to ban this ad from mobile retailer Phones4U and agency WCRS. Over 600 people complained that the ad was ‘offensive and unduly distressing.’ Well ...

Many government quangos have taken a hit under the coalition government, this being a pretty easy way to save money even if the same functions and often people tend to pop up somewhere else. The UK’s Advertising Standards Authority is ...