Marketing and Society

See here  for full details on the story. This is particularly interesting, as the ads were not banned by the ASA, but Transport for London c...

On Tuesday in the Marketing and Society lecture, I talked about the possibility of a minimum price for Alcohol being imposed in order to det...

TripAdvisor has been rebuked by the ASA for misleading consumers in its ads. Its claim that reviews were truthful  was deemed open to questi...

A recent BBC article  speculated why customers don't bother to switch to the lowest priced provider and included some of my thoughts on ...

Parents feel under enormous pressure to provide children with high status brands to avoid them being picked upon and bullied. Valuing such ...

Tesco have had a TV advert banned because the images contained within were deemed misleading. This provides a good example of the substanti...

The decision by two female Beach Volleyball players to advertise a bookmaker on their bikini bottoms has been criticised as detailed here . ...

The Goverment is running a consultation on how encourage financial services firms to offer simple products and how to make sure that consume...

Many customers are annnoyed to find that excessive (in their view !) fees are charged for payments using a debit/credit card online. A super...

An Adevrt for Coca Cola Vitamin Water has beed banned  for mis-leading consumers.The ASA judged that the publ;ic would not expect a drank la...

Scotland proposed a minimum price for alcohol, but it never came to fruition. Now there are proposals  for England and Wales. With health ca...

WARNING: THIS IS HIGHLY OFFENSIVE! But it is a excellent parody of the power of branding. Watch the cartoon here

An ice cream poster ad has been banned by the ASA for mocking the catholic faith. Given that the Pope turns up in the UK tomorrow, this prob...

An advert encouraging members of the public to look out for and report suspiscious behaviour which could be indicative of terrorist activity...

An advert  which features a cat being mistaken for a football and kicked into a tree by blind footballers has not been banned by the ASA des...

Ryanair have again been in trouble  with the ASA, this time over an advert depicting the boss of rival Easyjet as pinocchio! Perhaps the big...

The clothing brand Diesel is no stranger to controversy, having parodied the 80s porn industry for a previous Internet marketing  campaign. ...

It was announced   earlier this week that the Financial Services Authority is to be abolished and that it will disappear by 2012. I would su...

This story   from the world cup provides an interesting example of an ambush marketing stunt. The beer company in question was not the ...

This report   suggests that most packaged or bundled current accounts do not offer customers value for money and that their main purpose is ...

I think it is far to say that when we read the term Nanny State in the media, it is normally used in the pejorative, however some  more posi...

The Conservatives pledged to abolish the FSA if elected, however, the coalition has been very quiet on this matter since it came to power. T...

Well there is a thought to send a shiver down the spin of many, but this is a measure that is receiving heavyweight backing  as the most eff...

In this blog, I will mainly be posting material related to marketing, consumer behaviour and consumer policy issues in financial services (b...