Tag - ASA
Kate Moss makes it gross. The JWT team puts more than required gloss, and thus jumped the parole across.
After Penelope Cruz-L'Oreal incident last July, once again ASA (Advertising Standard Authority) found that Rimmel magazine advert featuring Kate...
The Advertising Standards Authority of UK has started an inquiry into Virgin Media after receiving complaints that that its advertising campaign titled ‘Truth, Lies and Broadband’ is misleading consumers. The ASA had received several complaints...
The Advertising Standards Authority of UK rapped the German company Beiersdorf for airing television advertisement for Nivea’s DNAge for being misleading. The advertisement claimed that the face cream in the question increased cell renewal....
The L’Oreal television and magazine advertisement, featuring Penelope Cruz claiming that women could have up to 60 percent longer eyelashes with its Telescopic mascara and showed her applying the mascara to some gorgeous lashes, landed in...
VH1 Music TV had launched this poster campaign, which drew flakes from several quarters in UK for being misleading. The advertisement is showing three differently colored straws and a rolled up banknote. The bank note appears to have a white...
BMW has recently landed in controversy for running a contentious advertisement on Internet. The Advertising Standards Authority lashed out on the car firm for the advertisement on ground that it encouraged speeding. BMW had launched this online...
This controversial billboard advertisement was launched in New Zealand to promote Tongue shoes. The billboard was carrying message that read, ‘In a recent survey, 95% of women said they liked tongue’. Apart from the text, it was showing an image of...
This controversial print advertisement for promoting designer handbags was appeared in Vogue magazine in UK. The Advertising Standards Authority received several complaints regarding the advertisement launched by Tanner Krolle. The advertisement has...
This poster advertisement meant for promoting a TG4 television program entitled ‘Paisean Faisean’, attracted fierce criticism in Ireland for being offensive and degrading women. The poster advertisement showed a teacher dressed a very short skirt...
This print advertisement published in Ireland meant for promoting Sprite Zero landed in intense controversy for using provocative wording. The advertisement included the wording ‘Frotteur: (fro-tur) - A person who engages in the sexual act of...
This is an interesting print advertisement, which drew flakes in Italy and was eventually banned from being run for being religiously sensitive. The complaints alleged that it has affronted the religious sensibilities of all citizens. It further...
Advertising over the internet has attracted more complaints than direct mail for the first time this year, triggering concerns over stricter policing of web campaigns. According to the annual report of the Advertising Standards Authority, complaints...
The UK's Advertising Standards Authority has recently banned this television commercial; promoting Xbox 360. The decision to ban the advertisement was taken on the ground that it supposedly promoted street car racing amongst the youth, and thus,...
These are some promotional pictures printed on the catalogues of a children's clothes company, No Added Sugar, was banned recently by the advertising watchdog. The Advertising Standards Authority ruled that several images within it were found...
This controversial poster advertisement launched by People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) with an aim to promote vegetarianism. The campaign was launched in Easington in County Durham, which has an obesity rate of 22 percent above the...
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