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Promoter says title – Dawn French is a Huge Twat – is humorous and aims any offence at comedian herselfAn ad that read “Dawn French is a Huge Twat” – the title of her live show – has been cleared by the advertising watchdog after complaints it was offe…
Exclusive: One of UK’s biggest ad deals for 15 years is expected to be signed this week but may yet fall throughThe Japanese marketing giant Dentsu is understood to have struck a £533m (€600m) deal to buy Tag, the British-headquartered global content p…
Chief executive says ‘no place on ITV’ for comments Jeremy Clarkson made in the Sun, but says brand has not been affectedITV has insisted its reputation is intact despite the controversy over Jeremy Clarkson, as the broadcaster said it expected a steep…
Airline claim that it was protecting the world’s future is latest ad to fall foul of ASA rulesAn ad campaign by Lufthansa claiming that its green initiatives were protecting the world has been banned by the UK advertising watchdog, which ruled it was m…
Cem Özdemir said measure would help protect children from obesity and diabetesGermany’s agriculture minister has called for a ban on all advertising accessible by children of unhealthy food including sweets and items with a high salt, fat and sugar con…
Meta says it removed ads for failing to state they were sponsored by an initiative of British American Tobacco AustraliaGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastA pro-vaping lobby group has run a series of advertisements…
Legislation could see companies fined millions of pounds for making unproven environmental assertions to sell their productsWhen the hydrogen-powered Hyundai Nexo car was launched in the UK in the spring of 2019, it was described as “so beautifully cle…
Microsoft has started discussing with ad agencies how it plans to make money from its revamped Bing search engine powered by generative artificial intelligence as the tech company seeks to battle Google’s dominance. Reuters reports: In a meeting with a…
Despite the absence of cryptocurrency ads, this year’s Super Bowl still managed some geek-friendly advertisements. There was even a riff on “the classic intro from the Super Mario Bros. Super Show, the live-action series that ran from 1989-1991,” accor…
Talenthouse claims to ‘democratise creativity’, but designers who have completed commissions for top brands are out of pocketIt is a global technology platform that claims to “democratise creativity” by allowing up-and-coming artists to submit work to …