Vaping ad goes up in a puff of smoke over Mo Farah row
A bus-side ad campaign for Diamond Mist e-liquids, featuring a Sir Mo Farah lookalike along with a version of his…
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Home Office attacks ASA for Settlement Scheme ad ban
The Home Office has slated an Advertising Standards Authority ruling which has outlawed a radio that claimed that all EU…
Royal Mail tries softly, softly approach to ID theft blitz
Royal Mail is knocked its use of shock tactics on the head for the launch of a new ad campaign…
Veterinary practice puts balls on the line in ad offensive
Brand owners might be fretting over what they can include in their UK ads after the regulator deemed two seemingly innocuous commercials “harmful”…
ASA under fire over ‘heavy handed’ stereotype ad bans
The Advertising Standards Authority has been accused being heavy handed in its implementation of the new rules on gender stereotypes,…
Love Island star scorched for misleading fake tan post
Love Island may have brand owners drooling at the prospect of getting their messages in front of a younger audience…
‘Hot wife’ poster gets the blood boiling in Nottingham
A poster campaign for a Nottingham air conditioning company, which features the strapline “your wife is hot”, is still running…
Viagogo plummets as Google dumps ads in the sin bin
Controversial secondary ticketing giant Viagogo has already crashed down the online search rankings just 24 hours after Google revealed it…
‘Distasteful’ horror movie ad spared chainsaw massacre
A “distasteful” bus-side poster for the cinema release of the film Pet Sematary has been given the green light by…
Aldi caught cooking the books to woo Tesco shoppers
Aldi has been caught red-handed fiddling the figures in a price comparison ad campaign which claimed that a stack of its…