The Advertising Standards Authority bans a perfume advert featuring teenage Twilight actress Dakota Fanning saying it could sexualise a child.
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‘Provocative’ perfume advert ban
A mobile phone advertisement featuring an illustration of Jesus winking is banned and called “disrespectful” by the advertising watchdog.
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Mobile phone Jesus advert banned
Google said Tuesday that the Justice Department is investigating its advertising practices and that Google may have to pay $500 million, but did not disclose further details.
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Bits: Justice Department Is Investigating Google Advertising
The group-buying website Groupon has had a number of complaints about its adverts upheld by the advertising watchdog.
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Groupon advert complaints upheld
Clothing retailer Jack Wills is forced by the advertising regulator to withdraw provocative images from its spring catalogue.
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Clothes shop criticised over ‘provocative’ catalogue
A High Court judge overturns a decision by the Advertising Standards Authority that an advertisement by a Belfast church was homophobic.
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Church cleared over sodomy ad
A New York billboard that focused exclusively on African-American abortion rates is being taken down because of concerns for public safety, said Hal Kilshaw, spokesperson for Louisiana-based Lamar Advertising, on Thursday. The billboard was erected by group opposed to abortions.
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Ad on black abortions being taken down
I have been dealing with P.R. people for a very long time. It would be crazy to categorize all public relations people as crazy, so let’s just say that P.R. people drive me crazy.
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You’re the Boss: The Problem With Public Relations
Groupon withdraws commercials that made their debut on Super Bowl Sunday, days after making changes in response to considerable criticism of the ads.
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Media Decoder: Groupon Withdraws Super Bowl Spots
By buying The Huffington Post, AOL will get a unique identity after veering from one approach to another as it tries to develop an ad-supported model.
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Media Decoder: AOL Buys Another Crack at a Future
An advert for an Yves Saint Laurent perfume is banned by the Advertising Standards Authority for appearing to show a woman simulating drug use.
Asda adverts promoting price competition against other supermarkets must be changed, the advertising watchdog rules.
Taco Bell has pulled its commercials from MTV’s controversial teen drama “Skins.”
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Media Decoder: Taco Bell Pulls Ads From MTV’s ‘Skins’
Rare chickens star in a specialty egg producer’s new campaign With the the tagline “fabulous eggs by fabulous birds,” Clarence Court ‘s glossy new website and ad campaign provide the proper spotlight for their exquisite rare hens. The work of full-service agency WFCA , the imagery successfully realizes the request by Clarence Court’s marketing director Vicki Hazel to take the brand from farming to foodie with alluring photography, educational information on specialty eggs and toothsome recipes. Photographer Richard Mountney’s dramatically-lit shots have a style that shows off the resplendent feathering of the creatures, similar to English photographer Stephen Green-Armytage’s book ” Extraordinary Chickens ” and recent Alexander McQueen collections alike. Casting the birds in such a beautifully sophisticated light—rather than with more typically rustic allusions—makes a luxurious impression in keeping with the brand’s appealingly colorful, strong-shelled product, which sells at upmarket British groceries like Harrods, Selfridges and Fortnum & Mason.
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Clarence Court
Google’s latest quarterly results rise 32%, beating market expectations after higher advertising revenues.
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Advertising revenues lift Google
Bits: Justice Department Is Investigating Google Advertising
Wednesday, May 11th, 2011
