Sat, Jun 22, 2024
It will be necessary to make it clear in all advertisements that the bonus or past performance or return of the product / plan cannot be considered a future guarantee.
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Sat, Apr 29, 2023
Many popular energy drink brands, including Boost, Horlicks, and Complan, have faced complaints about their advertisements in the past. This video takes a trip down memory lane to revisit the controversies surrounding these brands and their claims, which were found to be misleading by the Advertising Standards Council of India (ASCI).
Tue, Jun 28, 2022
The Advertising and Standards Council of India (ASCI), an organization monitoring advertisements, has released a report on complaints for the year 2021-22. According to ASCI, the biggest problem has been not giving the correct picture in the advertisement. What is in this report? Know from Ekta Suri.
Wed, Jun 08, 2022
In the guidelines, it will be forbidden to show Gender Stereotypes beliefs. Along with this, jokes cannot be made about one's physical appearance or gender.
Wed, Feb 23, 2022
Advertising Standards Council of India (ASCI) on February 23 rolled out the much-awaited guidelines for promoting and advertising crypto assets and non-fungible tokens (NFTs), amid concerns that investors are not adequately informed about the risks associated with Variable Dearness Allowance (VDA). ASCI is Indian advertising industry's self-governing body.
Tue, Feb 23, 2021
ASCI has issued draft guidelines to help consumers understand the difference between organic and paid posts.
Tue, Oct 20, 2020
ASCI has announced COVID-19 claims guidelines to advertisers especially pertaining to COVID-19. This will work as an advisory for advertisers and not the ASCI code.
Sat, Apr 08, 2017
The lawyers of FMCG giant HUL recently argued in court that Amul's ads were guilty of disparaging frozen dessert.
Fri, Mar 31, 2017
Advertising watchdog ASCI has found Bharti Airtel's advertisement claiming it to be "officially" fastest network misleading and has asked the telco to modify or withdraw the commercial by April 11. Bharti Airtel, however, has contested the findings.
Tue, Mar 21, 2017
In a fresh battle between the telecoms, claims of being the fastest network have been debated upon by Reliance Jio and Bharti Airtel as global standard in internet metrics, Ookla reiterated on March 20 that the latter was the ‘fastest network in India.’
Thu, Feb 09, 2017
Amazon was pulled up for its HTC Desire 620G Dual Sim ad, while Cleartrip was for the pre-booking of flights ad.
Mon, Feb 06, 2017
SC agreed that ASCI serves as an effective pre-emptive step to statutory provisions in the sphere of media regulation for TV and Radio programmes in India
Tue, Jan 03, 2017
The banking sector has lowered their ad spends in the two months since demonetisation, says Swamy.
Mon, Sep 26, 2016
Swamy takes over at a time when ASCI has been in the centre of controversy with Patanjali, which has now been dragged to High Court.
Tue, Sep 20, 2016
It was noticed that there were some other brands continue to be pulled up by the self-regulatory body and do not adhere to the its warnings.
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