7/15/2025 12:07:26 PM FTC Charges Telemedicine Company With Deceptive Marketing of Weight Loss Products By Jeff Greenbaum The Federal Trade Commission announced that it reached a settlement with telemedicine company NextMed, resolving allegations that the...
6/27/2025 11:45:41 AM X Bans Hashtags in Ads: What's Next for Influencer Disclosures? By Jeff Greenbaum Yesterday, Elon Musk announced that X (formerly known as Twitter) will no longer permit hashtags to be used in advertising that appears...
6/26/2025 6:01:47 PM Are Your Subscriptions Compliant? What Every Business Needs to Know About Auto-Renewal Laws to Survive in 2025 By Paavana Kumar Amy Marcus If you’re in the business of selling subscription services to your customers in 2025, compliance is about to get a lot trickier. Tune in...
6/3/2025 2:22:17 PM FINRA Obtains $1.6M Settlement Over Influencer Posts By Jeff Greenbaum In May, Webull Financial agreed to pay a $1.6 million fine to settle charges brought by the Financial lndustry Regulatory Authority that...
4/16/2025 3:59:06 PM Do You Know Who You’re Paying? FTC Lawsuit Against an Online Bill Pay Platform to Proceed By Len Gordon Ellis McKennie III On March 21, a federal judge in Washington state denied Doxo Inc.’s motion to dismiss a complaint brought by the Federal Trade Commission...
3/19/2025 10:13:09 PM National Advertising Division Targets Celebrity, Influencer, and Third-Party Marketing in Recent Decisions By Shahin Rothermel Jay Prapaisilp The National Advertising Division (NAD) recently issued a series of decisions addressing influencer and third-party marketing. The NAD is...
10/19/2024 2:47:51 PM When Does "All" Mean "All"? By Jeff Greenbaum Entenmann's sells All Butter Loaf Cake. In case you're worried, this blog post isn't about a lawsuit over whether consumers believe that...
7/28/2024 1:38:41 PM Cameo Enters Into Multistate Settlement Over Endorsement Practices By Jeff Greenbaum Last week, New York Attorney General Letitia James announced a 30-state settlement with Cameo, the celebrity video app, resolving...
7/18/2024 8:21:18 PM Drip Pricing, Surcharging, and the Push for “Total Price” Disclosures By Ellen Berge Chris Boone One of the questions that remains uncertain among looming federal and state “junk fee” and “drip pricing” bans in 2024 concerns the...
7/2/2024 3:44:35 PM Can a Violation of State Consumer Protection Law be Based on a Failure to Comply with the FTC's Endorsement Guides? By Jeff Greenbaum As part of its marketing efforts for Blue Ice Vodka, 21st Century Spirits engages influencers to promote the product in social media. In...
5/17/2024 3:46:38 PM Connecticut AG Sues Altice Over "Junk Fees" By Jeff Greenbaum Connecticut Attorney General William Tong recently sued internet service provider Altice USA, alleging that the company charged illegal...
4/2/2024 11:12:55 PM In “Made in America” Case NAD Finds That Advertisers Should Not Rely on Disclosures to Cure a False or Misleading Claim By Shahin Rothermel By Shahin O. Rothermel, Richard Starr & Glen Hisani The National Advertising Division of BBB National Programs (NAD) recommended last...
11/18/2023 3:22:09 PM FTC's New Warning Letters About Influencer Disclosures Include Important Guidance for Marketers By Jeff Greenbaum Last week, the Federal Trade Commission sent warning letters to two trade associations and a dozen influencers that the trade...
10/11/2023 11:49:42 AM FTC Proposes Rule on "Junk Fees" By Jeff Greenbaum The Federal Trade Commission announced that it is proposing a rule prohibiting "junk fees," which the FTC called, "hidden and bogus fees...
9/22/2023 4:13:39 PM Blurred Lines: FTC Report Finds Blurred Advertising Can Harm Kids By Allison Fitzpatrick Paavana Kumar Alexa Meera Singh Can you always tell when influencers are paid to feature a product in their content? Or if a brand is behind an unboxing video? Or if an...
7/2/2023 6:45:59 PM FTC Proposes New Rule on Fake Reviews and Other Misleading Endorsement Practices By Jeff Greenbaum Last week, the Federal Trade Commission proposed a new rule intended to combat the use of fake reviews and other misleading endorsement...