This is the story of an email, a website and a sponsored Facebook post describing two promotions that offered the chance to win a new home. If you’re quick on the uptake (and have read the title) y...

So here’s another recent ruling from the ASA and this time the complaint was related to a blog by an influencer called the Londoner about a holiday she, her partner and their new-born baby took at ...

The other day I read a good piece in Vice by Lauren O’Neill, a staff writer specialising in millennials and the internet. It was a report about BorderlessLive, which, says Lauren, was billed as the...

The ASA has just published a report called The Labelling of Influencer Advertising and the key finding is that people find it hard to identify when social media posts by influencers are ads. I mean...

The ASA recently published a ruling on a complaint about a house raffle. I blogged about it, concluding the post with a comment that we would probably see further complaints about house raffles. We...

Let me take you back to last Christmas, December 2018, when the following radio ad was broadcast: “Dear Santa, I’ve been terribly good, so for Christmas I’d really like a £3 million, six-bedroom ri...

The ASA recently ruled against Marnie Simpson, late of Geordie Shore and currently an influencer with 3.4 million followers on Instagram and over 305,000 Facebook friends. Granted, the fact that th...

Last week the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) announced that 16 celebrities had agreed not to break the law. OK, that might be overstating it slightly, but the CMA says a number of high-p...

Happy new year and welcome back! I hope you had a good break and didn’t over-indulge to the point of discomfort. I’m not a great one for resolutions, but I did take some time while I was off to thi...