Advertising Standards Bans Vodafone Broadband Ad
The ASA wasn't happy with with Vodafone's claims of "guaranteed speeds or money off".
The ASA wasn't happy with with Vodafone's claims of "guaranteed speeds or money off".
At least 200 people complained about not getting their stuff on time.
Should've filmed a man sitting in one on the M4 for 45 minutes.
Here's a great example of how miserable it must be working for the Advertising Standards Authority. A member of the public complained that a Dyson ad that claimed its cylinder cleaners featured "no loss of suction" was misleading, because if you never emptied a vacuum cleaner it would lose suction eventually.
Apple didn't mislead UK consumers over what Siri would be capable of when it arrived over here, it was our stupid fault for watching US announcements and getting too excited over features we were never going to get.
An advert for TalkTalk's broadband, which featured imagery of a doll's house while claiming its broadband was the UK's "safest" and therefore clearly inferred your children would inevitably be MURDERED at a distant rural railway station if you risked using any other ISP, has been judged as misleading by the UK's ad watchdog.
The Advertising Standards Agency has rapped John Lewis on the knuckles for using 'free' to describe something that's included in the price of an item. The complaint was levelled by Dixons, but upheld by the ASA.
Mass retail ransacking site Groupon has got itself in trouble with the Advertising Statndards Authority, after the discount portal offered cheap nose jobs for those willing to take such drastic measures on a whim.
