The ASA Is Cracking Down On Influencers' Ads-In-Disguise
"I just like, totally love this product, yanno?"
"I just like, totally love this product, yanno?"
No wings for you.
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.
