A California-based online entertainment network has agreed to settle FTC charges that it engaged in deceptive advertising in You Tube videos endorsing an online game system. Would the same conduct here have also irked our regulators? Jamie Heatly reports.
The ASA has investigated the company behind the London Comedy Club for the third time in three years. Why didn’t it see the funny side this time? Tom McGinn reports.
IGRG announces new industry code requirements for gambling ads. The Industry Group for Responsible Gambling has introduced new requirements for gambling ads in a 2nd edition of the Gambling Industry Code for Socially Responsible Advertising. Nick Johnson reports.
After months if not years of previously unsuccessful negotiations, the W3C initiative to forge an internationally accepted standard for “Do not track” technology seems to be back on track. Nick Johnson reports.
Following the sensational judgment of the Court of Appeal in Vidal-Hall & Others vs Google, the Supreme Court has granted Google leave to appeal three of the CA’s findings. Barney Sich reports.
From September 30, 2015 all website publishers using Google’s Adsense or any of its other tracking services, wherever the website is hosted, will have to obtain consent from all its users who live in the EU. Ben Dunham reports.
As of 1 July 2015, all those wanting to sell medicines on the web from the UK have had to register with the UK MHRA. An EU common logo must also be displayed. Georgina Graham reports.
Celebrating its 30th birthday, the UK data and information regulator has just published its latest Annual Report. Stephen Groom attended its launch and pulls out some nuggets for advertisers from that event and the Report itself.
Growing complaint levels about unexpected charges for mobile internet services have prompted the premium rate telephone line regulator to publish new guidance. Thomas Spanyol reports
As concerns over “adtech” transparency grow at perhaps an even faster rate than online advertising, spend, Stephen Groom looks at Hungary’s new laws on agency bonuses and kickbacks and their potential wider implications.
