Cooking, cleaning mums will be banned in advertisements across the UK from next year, following a study which claimed traditional gender roles are “harmful and outdated”.
Friends of the Earth (FoE) has been twice rebuked by Britain’s advertising standards watchdog this week after it tried to deny that claims it made about fracking were false. Earlier this week the Advertising Standards Agency (ASA) ruled that FoE
LONDON (AFP) – Britain will ban junk food ads aimed at children from both print and social media from next year, the advertising rules watchdog said Thursday, a move welcomed by campaigners against child obesity.
A newspaper advert for an Enid Blyton gift shop, featuring a golliwog over the words “English Freedom” has been banned as the advertising watchdog said it was likely to cause “serious or widespread offence”.
Britain’s Advertising Standards Agency (ASA) has declared that a photograph featuring a woman lying on the floor wearing a short black dress was “irresponsible” because the woman appeared unhealthily thin. The advert for Yves Saint Laurent, which featured in Elle magazine,
Three adverts for e-cigs have been banned from British TV by the Advertising Standards Agency (ASA) on the grounds that they glamourise tobacco, despite not being a tobacco product. The ruling came just over a month after the first ‘vaping’
