Tuesday 19 June 2012

The role of the Advertising Standards Authority




The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) is the self-regulatory organization (SRO) of the advertising industry in the United Kingdom.
Its role is to "regulate the content of advertisements, sales promotions and direct marketing in the UK by investigating "complaints made about ads, sales promotions or direct marketing”, and deciding whether such advertising complies with its advertising standards codes.
These codes are in order to make sure before they submit a marketing way of communicating, they must hold evidence to prove all claims, that the communication given across, is not mislead, or be likely to mislead, by inaccuracy, ambiguity, exaggeration, omission or otherwise.

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