May 27, 2021 FTC and FDA Issue Warning Letters Over Marketing of Fertility Products By Jeff Greenbaum The Federal Trade Commission and the Food and Drug Administration sent letters to five companies, warning them that they may be making...
May 25, 2021 The FTC Staff Closing Letter: What, Why, Where By Terri Seligman In a post this week, the FTC’s Business Center Blog addressed the whys, wheres and wherefores of FTC Staff Closing Letters. What...
May 24, 2021 No Registration, No Log-In, No Data? By Terri Seligman In a recent routine monitoring case, NAD examined online advertising for Quicken Loans. The ads, designed to "encourage...consumers to...
May 24, 2021 Distillery Says Facebook Rejected its Advertising for "Back the Blue" Fundraiser By Jeff Greenbaum Loaded Cannon Distillery, based in Bradenton Florida, said that Facebook has rejected its advertising for a "Back the Blue" event on the...
May 22, 2021 FTC and Six States Sue Frontier Communications for Misrepresenting Internet Speeds By Jeff Greenbaum The Federal Trade Commission, along with law enforcement agencies from six states, sued internet service provider Frontier...
May 19, 2021 Dark Patterns Exist IRL Too By Terri Seligman The sign on the store window says “Buy Now, Pay Later” What it doesn’t say, but should, is “and keep paying, and paying, and paying…”...
May 19, 2021 You're Invited: "Evolving Environmental Marketing Regulation" Webinar (Updated) By Jeff Greenbaum On June 17th, the International Advertising Association is hosting a webinar, "Evolving Environmental Advertising Regulation." The...
May 18, 2021 FTC Continues Crackdown on Deceptive CBD Claims By Jeff Greenbaum The Federal Trade Commission announced that it reached a settlement with Kushly Industries, resolving allegations that the company made...
May 17, 2021 FTC Warns of a Big Increase in Cryptocurrency Investment Scams -- Including Elon Musk Impersonators! By Jeff Greenbaum The Federal Trade Commission reported that, since October 2020, consumers have said that they have lost more than $80 million in...
May 13, 2021 NYAG Issues Warning on Gasoline Price Gouging By Jeff Greenbaum New York Attorney General Letitia James issued an alert about the potential for gasoline price gouging following the interruption of the...
May 13, 2021 Does a Discount Offered on the Purchase of Two Products Apply When You Buy Ten? By Jeff Greenbaum Circle K, the convenience store chain, advertised that consumers who bought two packs of certain cigarettes would receive a discount on...
May 11, 2021 Gobsmacked! Queen announces total ban for online HFSS ads and 9 p.m. watershed for TV ads. By Brinsley Dresden When you read the Queen's Speech, it seems quite innocuous. "Measures will be brought forward to support the health and well-being of the...
May 10, 2021 Attorneys General Urge Facebook to Drop Plans for Instagram for Kids By Jeff Greenbaum Forty-four state attorneys general sent a letter to Facebook, urging the company to abandon its plans to launch a version of Instagram...
May 07, 2021 Guy Parker Elected President of ICAS By Jeff Greenbaum At today's annual meeting of the International Council for Ad Self-Regulation, Guy Parker, the Chief Executive of the UK's Advertising...
May 07, 2021 WFA Launches Planet Pledge for Marketers By Jeff Greenbaum The World Federation of Advertisers is urging global marketers to sign up to its new Planet Pledge, which is an initiative designed to...
May 06, 2021 Can Tea Grown in Sri Lanka and India be Advertised as "Manufactured in the USA"? By Jeff Greenbaum Can you advertise tea as having been made in the United States if the tea itself is grown overseas? That was the issue in a recent...