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03 December 2019
The Indian government has announced that it will set up a committee to scrutinise and regulate product-feature claims made in advertisements, through the Food Safety & Standards Authority of India (FSSAI).
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WARC Trends, November 2019
Part of WARC's Marketer’s Toolkit 2020, this chapter offers a deep dive into the regulation and policy trends affecting marketing plans in 2020.
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WARC Trends, November 2019
WARC's Marketer’s Toolkit 2020 adopts the STEIP methodology to cover five drivers of change that will affect marketers next year, built from an annual survey, 10 CMO interviews and WARC analysis.
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22 October 2019
Tobacco firms in the UK are accused of circumventing laws that stipulated unbranded brown packaging for products, through a variety of strategies that have helped brands stand out while staying within the letter of the law.
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22 October 2019
The Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority of India (Irdai) has asked insurers to ensure that advertisements of insurance products are clear and do not convey a fabricated sense of security to prospective customers.
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11 October 2019
Singapore has announced a total ban on advertisements of packaged drinks with very high sugar content, as part of an on-going bid to tackle diabetes, making it the first country in the world to do so.
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08 October 2019
Social video app TikTok has publicly stated that it will not allow paid ads that promote a political agenda on its platform, reiterating the terms set out in an existing policy.
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Mike Teasdale, October 2019
Ads can’t change the world by themselves – that’s not their point – but they are far more effective if they reflect the world the audience aspires to.
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04 October 2019
Video-streaming has brought many benefits, not least choice and the growing amount of original content, but piracy remains a major problem, which is why a group of telcos and other industry players have joined forces to tackle the issue.
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Stevan Ranđelović, September 2019
Fake news is polluting our public life but responsibility for solving the problem doesn’t lie with just one party.
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30 August 2019
Two months after the UK’s Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) published a hard-hitting report about the adtech industry’s misuse of personal data, the watchdog has revealed that “nothing” has been resolved at this ...
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29 August 2019
Facebook is tightening the rules around the provenance of political advertising on its platform, following high-profile examples of evasion.
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15 August 2019
Volkswagen and Philadelphia cheese are the first brands to fail the Advertising Standard Authority’s new rules on gender stereotyping in ads, which came into force in June, with industry bodies expressing surprise and concern at the bans.
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14 August 2019
French broadcasters can breathe a sigh of relief as the country’s regulator gave the green light to plans to join forces to create a digital platform to challenge Netflix.
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07 August 2019
The Coca-Cola Company has faced criticism in Hungary from a member of the country’s ruling ultra-conservative Fidesz party over a series of ads that promote LGBT acceptance, and were timed to run alongside the major international music and ...
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06 August 2019
Following the furore over a recent "brownface" advertisement, the Advertising Standards Authority of Singapore (ASAS) plans to issue a recommendation that marketers “take special care” when their projects involve race and ...
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01 August 2019
Popular Chinese social commerce platform Xiaohongshu is reported to have been removed from a range of Android app stores in the country, with fake reviews aimed at boosting product sales being a possible cause.
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31 July 2019
Websites that embed Facebook’s ‘Like’ button are now jointly liable for the initial processing of user data and must get consent from European Union visitors before transferring it to the social network, or be able to ...
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29 July 2019
Australia is likely to open the world’s first office dedicated to policing Facebook and Google following recommendations from the country’s consumer watchdog, which spent the past 18 months examining the dominance of leading digital ...
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29 July 2019
Videos on YouTube that feature children who appear to be under the age of 13 are among the most popular on the platform despite the company’s stated policy that its site is not intended for children under that age, a new study has revealed.
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16 July 2019
TikTok, the viral video-sharing app owned by Chinese company ByteDance, is facing a fresh wave of calls for its services to be banned in India.
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05 July 2019
Major online platforms that currently dominate the UK digital advertising market will come under intense scrutiny after the country’s competition watchdog launched an official investigation into their practices, including how they use ...
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Stephen Whiteside, Event Reports, Cannes Lions, June 2019
Mars, the confectionery giant, has a commitment to responsible marketing that helps steer its communications activity in various ways.
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Chris Bennett, June 2019
Ensuring brand safety is a basic requirement of digital advertising. Now it’s time to consider brand suitability, says Chris Bennett of Pixability.
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13 May 2019
Singapore’s parliament last week overwhelmingly voted in favour of controversial legislation that gives the authorities sweeping new powers to order the correction or removal of online content.
