9/29/2025 10:50:08 PM NAD Reviews Strikethrough Pricing as Class Action Risks Mount By Hannah Taylor It is rare for the National Advertising Division (NAD) to review strikethrough pricing, but its recent decision in Renpho US (Renpho Elis...
9/9/2025 8:00:12 PM Even When NAD Doesn't Decide, It Decides By Terri Seligman Two recent NAD Decisions provide some insights into NAD’s view of its own jurisdiction and its tools for addressing recalcitrant...
8/12/2025 12:27:32 PM How Do You Substantiate a "#1" Claim? By Jeff Greenbaum Guideline provides 401(k) programs to small and medium sized businesses. Recently, Guideline advertised that – for users of the Gusto...
8/6/2025 9:43:27 PM Double Disclosures: When Do You Need Them? By Terri Seligman A recent NAD case (Report #7841) addressed this very issue but since the advertiser voluntarily pulled the ads in question, NAD did not...
4/25/2025 7:57:09 PM Back to Basics: Recent NAD Cases Provide Primer on Common Claims and Practices By Terri Seligman Three recent NAD cases provide good reminders about some issues and claims that advertising lawyers regularly address. #1 claims In this...
4/12/2025 11:31:54 AM How Quickly Must An Advertiser Change Its Product Packaging When it Loses At NAD? By Terri Seligman It’s one of the most vexing questions I get as an NAD practitioner. Vexing because there’s no hard and fast rule stated in NAD...
3/29/2025 2:49:06 AM NAD Continues To Focus on Influencer Disclosures By Terri Seligman In yet another Decision from NAD addressing influencer disclosures, demonstrating the self-regulatory body’s ongoing concern with the...
2/25/2025 8:59:12 PM NAD Announces Dedicated Reporting Channel with Google By Terri Seligman BBB National Programs today announced a collaboration between its National Advertising Division and Google to allow for direct reporting...
1/2/2025 4:52:04 PM A Dazzling Decision: NAD Determines GuruNanda Must Discontinue Certain Teeth-Whitening Claims By Jordyn Milewski Last month, the National Advertising Division released a decision surrounding claims made by advertiser GuruNanda LLC for its oral care...
12/26/2024 3:48:41 PM What’s Advertising and What’s Not? By Terri Seligman First of all, why does it matter? It matters because if a company’s materials are considered “advertising” – as opposed to, say,...
10/13/2024 12:41:14 PM What Is An Advertiser’s Responsibility For the Rankings and Ratings It Receives? By Terri Seligman This recent(ish) NAD Decision in a Fast Track SWIFT case raises some interesting issues indeed. Upon challenge by the advertiser’s...
6/7/2024 12:57:43 PM Is the “Ultimate Clean” Really the Best Clean? NAD Addresses Dishwasher Tablet Claims By Ariel Radow Does a word like “ultimate” used in advertising convey a message of superiority? When it came to claims made by Reckitt Benckiser for its...
5/24/2024 8:36:20 PM NAD Refers Crisis Pregnancy Center to Attorney General and Social Media Platforms By Terri Seligman As both consumers and advertising lawyers know, there are many ways that unscrupulous advertisers mislead their target audience: they...
4/9/2024 1:50:57 AM Can a Disclaimer Effectively Modify a "Made in USA" Claim? By Jeff Greenbaum Stihl Incorporated USA promoted its outdoor power equipment as having been “Made in America.” Almost all of advertising that included...
3/8/2024 12:09:18 AM Product Review Sites: Abusive and Misleading? By Terri Seligman Let’s say you’re shopping for a new credit card or perhaps a new skin care regime. You go online and do a search like “best travel...
1/2/2024 10:11:39 PM New CA Law Targets Gender Stereotyping in Toy Retailing By Terri Seligman A new year means new laws, rules and regulations. Advertising and consumer protection laws are no exception. We already posted about...