Advertising Standards

In France, advertising, fashion and media companies sign accord to ...
Signatories in France, which include the National Union of Modeling Agencies, The French Federation of Pret-a-Porter (ready to wear) fashion, and a regulatory watchdog agency for advertising standards in France, pledged to “reject the ...

Advertising and Regulation
In February, In the News outlined a story involving budget airline Ryanair and the Advertising Standards... (10/04/2008)

Some of Us Have Standards Already
I’m not saying that such a code will be enough to take significant budgets away from broadcast or print media right away, but today mobile advertising is on the rise, and SEM budgets have room to grow. If we’re ever going to get to the ...

France Revisits the Skinny-Model Problem
In fact, members of the French Fashion Federation, the National Union of Modeling Agencies, and the French Advertising Standards Authority got together in Paris yesterday to draw up guidelines to promote body diversity. ...

Today In SA - Beauty care product commercials misleading: ASA
The Advertising Standards Authority has warned beauty care product commercials are often misleading. The warning follows the banning of Nivea's goodbye cellulite gel TV advert over false claims that it reduces cellulite. ...

Kane & Lynch Ad Banned in the UK
Having received 26 complaints, the ASA (Advertising Standards Authority) banned UK television and print ads for Eidos Interactive's video game Kane & Lynch.

French Groups Promote Body Diversity
Proving the size zero debate is still very much an issue, professionals from the French Fashion Federation, the National Union of Modeling Agencies and the French Advertising Standards Authority gathered here Wednesday to sign a charter ...

Eidos rapped by ASA
The UK Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has rapped video game publisher Eidos over the knuckles following complaints about its adverts for the shoot-em-up game Kane and Lynch: Dead Men.... > Read the full article.

Kane and Lynch: Dead Men ads banned
This time around, the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has banned the game's advertising campaign for its graphic and shocking display of violence. ASA has already received 26 complaints for the print and broadcast ads for Kane ...

Ofcom to change broadcasting code
The broadcasters do have choice here, they can reclassify under Teleshopping, if they did this, and then there is no broadcasting code, although in that case they would then come under the BCAP Advertising Standards Code.