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In a recent speech new ASA Chair Lord Borrie lashed out at the disproportionate ASA resources spent on adjudicating complaints by companies over their competitors’ advertising. Does he have a…

Late last year the Radio Authority published a modernised Advertising and Sponsorship Code.   Who: Radio Authority When: December 2000 Where: UK What happened: late last year the Radio Authority…

For two years the CAP, the industry body responsible for writing and enforcing Britain’s non-broadcast, self regulatory advertising code has been wrestling with how to help increase consumer confidence in…

Under cover of a marketing blitz promoting the launch of the much-vaunted but ultimately underwhelming CAP Admark Consumer Confidence in On-line Ads Scheme, the CAP and the ASA recently made…

Equal rights groups appealed against the upholding of a complaint about an anti-rape commercial.   Topic: Gender in advertising Who: "Charlize Theron" anti-rape TV commercial/appeal against ASA decision When: Late…