ASA – Clarity for Consumers: why #ad is essential in paid influencer posts

The ASA/CAP have released a post called: Clarity for Consumers: why #ad is essential in paid influencer posts. I have enclosed the text of the link below, but please have a look at the ASA/CAP site as there are lots of things of interest to anyone with an interest in Ethical Marketing. The key finding of our new report, published today, reveals that people struggle to identify when social media posts by influencers are ads, and confirms that our current approach of requiring influencers to use a prominent reference, such as #ad,…

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Clarity for Consumers: New standards announced for onscreen text

The ASA have released a post stating “Clarity for Consumers: New standards announced for onscreen text”. I have enclosed the text of the link below, but please have a look at the ASA site as there are lots of things of interest to anyone with an interest in Ethical Marketing. Today we have published research that has found that viewers can struggle to read and comprehend text in TV ads that contains important qualifying terms and conditions to an offer, known as on-screen or superimposed text – including what is sometimes referred…

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