‘Straight Outta Crumpton’ NWA pastiche avoids ASA rap
A TV ad for Aston Manor’s Crumpton Oaks Cider – which featured animated characters wearing urban-style clothing and rapping in…
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Virgin Atlantic shot down over ‘sustainable fuel’ ad
Virgin Atlantic has had its wings clipped by the advertising watchdog over a radio ad which claimed that sustainable aviation…
Watchdog flushes Air Up urinating man ad down the pan
German-owned water bottle brand Air Up, which claims to promote “decency and morality”, has been splattered by the ad watchdog…
‘Offensive’ Alzheimer’s and Verisure ads get the all-clear
The advertising watchdog has cleared two controversial ad campaigns, for both the Alzheimer’s Society and alarm company Verisure, despite a…
Ad watchdog gets steamed up about the JML DriBuddi
Homewares retailer JML has found itself on the wrong side of the ad watchdog for the second time in a…
Nationwide ‘greedy banker’ ads end up on the scrapheap
Nationwide Building Society’s “tongue in cheek” ad campaign starring actor Dominic West as the greedy and unsympathetic head of a…
JML ad axed for ‘harmful’ depiction of women cleaning
The ad watchdog has raised more than a few eyebrows after outlawing a TV ad for JML’s Hurricane Spin Scrubber,…
Kevin gets the chop as ASA slices up Aldi price claims
Aldi’s Kevin the Carrot ad might have reached the dizzy heights of Christmas Number One again last year but the…
ASA rejects flood of complaints over ‘harmful’ Dusk ad
The ad watchdog has dismissed calls to ban a tongue in cheek TV ad for furniture retailer Dusk, despite 40…
‘Disgusting’ Shipman ad kills off new biz at DeadHappy
Financial services firm DeadHappy is counting the cost of last year’s controversial ad campaign featuring serial killer Harold Shipman –…