Advertising Standards Authority

Kerry's Payday Loan Ad Banned By Watchdog

The Huffington Post UK | Jessica Elgot | Posted 08.05.2013 | UK

Kerry Katona's advert for payday loans company Cash Lady was "irresponsible" and could influenced vulnerable viewers that high interest loans could he...

Pussy Energy Drink Advert Banned

PA/The Huffington Post UK | Posted 24.04.2013 | UK Lifestyle

An ad for energy drink brand Pussy that reprimanded viewers for considering the word's slang alternative has been banned following 156 complaints that...

Schoolgirl Dating Website Advert Banned For 'Grooming'

PA/The Huffington Post UK | Posted 18.04.2013 | UK Lifestyle

An ad for a dating website that appeared on Facebook with a picture of a woman in a school uniform has been banned for potentially encouraging groomin...

Is It Fair to Ban Sexual Images From a Sexual Marketplace?

Nash Riggins | Posted 11.04.2013 | UK Universities & Education
Nash Riggins

If anything, American Apparel should be commended for its unprecedented and unpretentious level of self-awareness; after all, even brands that don't sell revealing clothing rely almost exclusively upon scantily-clad sex symbols to sell their products using 'gratuitous emphasis on the groin'. Is that sexist?

American Apparel Adverts Banned

PA/The Huffington Post UK | Posted 10.04.2013 | UK Lifestyle

Controversial US retailer American Apparel has once again flouted advertising regulations with images of women in vulnerable poses "likely to cause se...

Cigarette Giant's Anti-Plain Packaging Advert Banned For Being Misleading

The Huffington Post UK | Charlie Thomas | Posted 13.03.2013 | UK

An anti-plain packaging campaign advert placed in national newspapers by one of the biggest tobacco giants has been banned after it was found to have ...

Advertising Crackdown On Payday Lenders

PA | Posted 05.05.2013 | UK

Payday lenders are facing new rules on how they advertise under a Government clampdown to make sure that firms do not take advantage of people who are...

Harvey Nichols 'Lesbian Kiss' Ad Cleared By Watchdog

PA/The Huffington Post UK | Posted 19.03.2013 | UK Lifestyle

A Harvey Nichols campaign showing women about to kiss their mirror image has escaped censure after drawing complaints that it was sexually explicit an...

Asda's Christmas 'Busy Mum' Ad Is Not Sexist, ASA Rules

PA/ The Huffington Post UK | Posted 30.01.2013 | UK

Asda's Christmas advert featuring a mother who appeared to be almost single-handedly carrying out the preparations has been cleared following more tha...

Complaints Over 'Degrading Anti-Feminist' M&S Advert Rejected

PA/The Huffington Post UK | Posted 23.01.2013 | UK Lifestyle

A Marks & Spencer lingerie campaign featuring model Rosie Huntington-Whiteley has been cleared by the advertising watchdog following complaints that i...

Two Jimmy Savile Adverts Banned

PA/Huffington Post UK | Posted 09.01.2013 | UK

Two adverts which referred to Jimmy Savile have been ruled harmful and offensive after complaints that they made light of sexual abuse. An email fo...

'Taken 2' Rapped..

PA | Posted 05.12.2012 | UK Entertainment

Twentieth Century Fox has been ordered to pull an ad for the film 'Taken 2' after a watchdog found that glowing reviews used to promote it had never b...

Is It Time To Ban Airbrushing For Good?

Guy Parker | Posted 28.01.2013 | UK Lifestyle
Guy Parker

Digital fakery. Airbrushing. Perfect models with perfect make up, their perfect figures clad in perfect clothes. This imagery is everywhere and it's having a damaging effect on women and girls, who simply can't attain the unrealisable ideal.

'Distressing And Insulting' Advert Banned

PA/Huffington Post UK | Posted 28.11.2012 | UK

An advert showing a surgeon performing a brain operation while organising a holiday online has been banned after complaints it was offensive, distress...

Just When Toyota Thought Its Week Couldn't Get Any Worse...

Charlie Thomas | Posted 16.11.2012 | UK

Toyota has had its knuckles rapped by the advertising watchdog after an online advertisement showed an animated man driving in a reckless fashion. ...

Natalie Portman's Christian Dior Mascara Advert Banned For Exaggerating Effects

Huffington Post UK/ PA | Sara C Nelson | Posted 15.01.2013 | UK

A Christian Dior mascara advert featuring actress Natalie Portman has been banned for exaggerating the effect of the product on her lashes. The mag...

WATCH: Naked Ham Advert Pulled After 'Misleading Claims About Meat'

PA/Huffington Post UK | Posted 23.12.2012 | UK

An advert for ham featuring naked picnickers prompted 371 complaints but it was misleading claims about meat that saw the Advertising Standards Author...

Channel 4 Gypsy Adverts Condemned As 'Morally Bankrupt'

The Huffington Post UK/PA | Posted 03.10.2012 | UK Entertainment

The Irish Traveller Movement in Britain has described the condemnation of two adverts for Channel 4's Big Fat Gypsy Wedding as a "stunning victory" an...

Skin Doctors' Anger As Sunbed Centres Claim Health Benefits

PA/The Huffington Post UK | Posted 22.08.2012 | UK

Sunbed centres are allowed to extoll the benefits of the tanning machines as a source of Vitamin D, despite complaints from the Scottish government, t...

Baby Website Claimed MMR Jabs Could Be Causing Autism

PA | Posted 08.08.2012 | UK

A website offering parents advice on childhood immunisation has been ordered to remove information about the MMR vaccine after renewing claims that it...

Could This Decision Kill Facebook's Advertising Business?

Huffington Post UK | Michael Rundle | Posted 06.10.2012 | UK Tech

Facebook advertisers could be forced to moderate the comments made on their pages after a landmark decision in Australia. The Australian Advertisin...

Call Of Duty Ad Banned

Huffington Post UK / PA | Posted 23.09.2012 | UK Tech

An advert for Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 has been banned from daytime screening because of its scenes of violence and destruction, a watchdog has ...

Usain Bolt And Virgin Media Not So Fast After All

PA | Posted 27.06.2012 | UK

A Virgin Media campaign featuring Usain Bolt has attracted a third round of complaints, this time over misleading claims about doubling "everyone's" b...

Colgate's Advert Not Whiter Than White

PA | Posted 20.06.2012 | UK

The firm behind the Colgate brand has been reprimanded by the advertising watchdog for wrongly implying that one of its toothpastes has the backing of...

Cheese Ad Moved Post-Watershed Over 'Trivialising Violence' Complaints

PA/The Huffington Post UK | Posted 13.06.2012 | UK

A cheese ad in which a miniature cowboy wields a razor and a gun has been shifted to a post 9pm slot following complaints that it trivialised violent ...