One of the most common regulatory challenges faced by advertisers is whether their online ads have omitted material information or only...
The Advertising Standards Authority’s ruling against Brighton & Hove City Council concerning a digital poster campaign about the dangers...
The phrase "clinically proven" is one of the most powerful claims in a beauty marketer's ‘Arsenal’*. It sounds scientific, authoritative,...
On 27 May 2026, the Advertising Standards Authority published two gambling advertising rulings on the same day, one of which involved a...
In September last year, we wrote about the first court appearance of three finfluencers whose trials are now scheduled to take place in...
The UK's Advertising Standards Authority has ruled that a series of Absolut Vodka ads featuring Keith Haring’s artwork did not breach the...
In a decisive pre-emptive step this May, a broad coalition of advertising, media and retail trade bodies committed to behaving as if the...
Like many, I’m partial to a cold, refreshing drink—especially if it promises a little more than just quenching my thirst. So, when I came...
Nearly 10 months after initiating an investigation into advertising by the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals...
The ASA has issued its Annual Report on its work in 2024. And it's very slim. Not that it was bloated before (we don't want to be rude...
Advertisers sometimes think that they needn't worry too much about investigations by the Advertising Standards Authority, because the ASA...
George Bernard Shaw, the Irish playwright and inventor of the hipster beard, is credited as saying “Youth is wasted on the young.” As...
A week after publishing a series of rulings on unregulated investment in wine (discussed by Brinsley Dresden here), the Advertising...
In what has now become something of annual tradition, please join Brinsley Dresden and Guy Parker, Chief Executive of the Advertising...
The ASA has recently considered complaints about three Facebook ads for HIKE footwear. The issues concerned claims about a money back...
Like most middle-aged men, I'm a small boy at heart. I like cars and ships and trains and even aircraft, provided I don't have to fly in...