Oct 09, 2024 Legal Landscapes: Legal500's Advertising & Marketing Guide - an international perspective By Geraint Lloyd-Taylor The good people at Legal500 asked us to contribute to this year’s Guide to Advertising & Marketing, which offers a useful overview of the...
Sep 04, 2024 Curious ASA decision involving Hendrick's Gin may be just the tonic By Geraint Lloyd-Taylor A Video on Demand (VOD) ad for Hendricks Gin, seen in June 2024, combined real-life and animated footage. A voice-over invited viewers to...
Sep 02, 2024 Don't put your foot in it. Avoid Hike's well-trodden advertising slip-ups. By Brinsley Dresden The ASA has recently considered complaints about three Facebook ads for HIKE footwear. The issues concerned claims about a money back...
Jul 25, 2024 Good news! UK adspend enjoys record Q1 growth (AA/WARC) By Geraint Lloyd-Taylor The quarterly Advertising Association/WARC Expenditure Report is the definitive guide to advertising expenditure in the UK, with data for...
Jul 18, 2024 Taking Out the Trash: New Junk Fee Laws Impact Pricing Practices By Paavana Kumar Ashley Haripal We are about to see an enormous uptick in federal and state regulation of “junk fees” – and the class action bar is undoubtedly preparing...
Jul 08, 2024 Health supplements: Irresponsible ads were REALLY taking the proverbial! By Geraint Lloyd-Taylor With all the excitement of the football, Grand Prix, tennis and general election last week, and the tiredness (and possibly hangovers)...
May 22, 2024 Grace under fire... from the ASA... with lessons for all brandowner influencers By Geraint Lloyd-Taylor Two Instagram reels and four TikTok posts on Grace Beverly’s accounts, @gracebeverley, were found to have broken disclosure rules this...
May 16, 2024 ASA issues new guidance on signposting ads in podcasts By Helen Hart Geraint Lloyd-Taylor Many of you probably listen to podcasts on various topics, from politics to art, history to religion, from technology to health and...
May 03, 2024 The May Bank Holiday is a washout, so snuggle down with the Ads & Brands Law Digest. By Brinsley Dresden Welcome to the latest edition of our Ads & Brands Law Digest, covering legal and regulatory developments from the last few weeks relevant...
Mar 26, 2024 AI in Marketing: 4 Unfair Competition Law Pitfalls By Jonas D. Gassmann Artificial intelligence can help companies automate their marketing processes and make them more efficient. It can also be used to...
Feb 29, 2024 Jack Daniel's left with hangover by sobering ASA decision. By Brinsley Dresden 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...
Feb 16, 2024 HUGE numbers of influencers in Europe routinely flout disclosure rules, study finds By Geraint Lloyd-Taylor The European Commission and various national consumer protection authorities have been carrying out a sweep of posts by 572 influencers....
Feb 16, 2024 Political advertising: Ballot of old nonsense or transparently better this time round? By Jessica Todd Geraint Lloyd-Taylor 2024 is the world’s largest ever election year, with over two billion voters going to the polls across 50 countries this year, including...
Oct 10, 2023 Advertising cryptoassets - new rules now in force By Geraint Lloyd-Taylor Wendy Saunders On 8 October 2023, the much-heralded changes to the regulation of advertising of cryptoassets came into force. The FCA is now responsible...
Oct 05, 2023 The Italian Data Protection Authority Adopts New Position on the Retention of Personal Data for Marketing Purposes By Laura Liguori Eugenio Foco With Order No. 321 of July 18, 2023 (“Order”), the Italian Data Protection Authority (Garante per la protezione dei dati...
Jul 05, 2023 14 Years in the Making: FTC Unveils Updated FTC Endorsement Guides By Paavana Kumar Allison Fitzpatrick Alexa Meera Singh Today, the FTC announced its newly revised and long-awaited Endorsement Guides, which aim to update and clarify previous guidance...