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...
One of the constant challenges for charities trying to raise awareness about sensitive issues is how to grab attention, but without being...
Many of you probably listen to podcasts on various topics, from politics to art, history to religion, from technology to health and...
One of the most amusing ad campaigns of the last 12 months has been the one created by New Commercial Arts for the Nationwide Building...
Yesterday's ASA decision about a poster as for Jack Daniel's No.7 is a further reminder of how strictly the ASA will apply the rules...
Today's decision by the UK's Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) to ban one out of three poster ads for Calvin Klein underwear on the...
One of the most interesting contrasts in advertising regulation around the world is how different countries approach the issue of...
On Friday 23rd June the UK’s Advertising Standards Authority issued an updated version of their guidance on misleading environmental...
The Advertising Standards Authority Annual Report 2022 was the Diamond Jubilee edition, marking 60 years since the establishment of the...