MUMBAI: Continuing with its mission to address misleading advertisements, Advertising Standard Council of India (ASCI) has launched India’s first consumer complaint mobile App – ASCIonline, to...
MUMBAI: In March 2015, the Advertising Standard Council of India’s (ASCI) Consumer Complaints Council (CCC) upheld complaints against 185 out of 230 advertisements. Out of...
MUMBAI: In keeping with ASCI chairman Narendra Ambwani’s 2015 vision of ‘Self-discipline by creators of advertising’, the Advertising Standard Council of India (ASCI) has launched an...
MUMBAI: In line with its commitment to self-regulation in advertising on different platforms, the Advertising Standard Council of India (ASCI) is presenting a platform for industry...
MUMBAI: In December 2014, the Advertising Standard Council of India’s (ASCI) Consumer Complaints Council (CCC) upheld complaints against 62 out of 97 advertisements. Out of 62...
NEW DELHI: Even as a legal debate continues on the ad cap of 12 minutes to the hour, the Government feels the existing mechanism available in...
MUMBAI: In November 2014, Advertising Standards Council of India’s (ASCI) Consumer Complaints Council (CCC) upheld complaints against 113 out of 144 advertisements. Out of 113...
MUMBAI: Observing the National Consumers Day on 24 December, Advertising Standards Council of India (ASCI) has launched the initiative ‘Swachh Ads Abhiyan’. With the purpose of...
MUMBAI: In October, Advertising Standards Council of India’s (ASCI) Consumer Complaints Council (CCC) upheld complaints against 105 out of 146 advertisements. Out of the 105 advertisements...
MUMBAI: In September 2014, Advertising Standards Council of India’s (ASCI) Consumer Complaints Council (CCC) upheld complaints against 79 out of 100 advertisements. Out of the...
MUMBAI: Strengthening its mission towards self-regulation in advertising, Department of Consumer Affairs (DoCA), of the Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food & Public Distribution, has partnered with...
An IIM Ahmedabad alumnus, Narendra Ambwani has spent over 34 years of his career with Johnson & Johnson. He led the rapid growth of Indian operations...
MUMBAI: In July 2014, Advertising Standard Council of India’s (ASCI) Consumer Complaints Council (CCC) upheld complaints against 134 out of 147 advertisements. The CCC found the...
MUMBAI: Medical Council of India (MCI) backs Advertising Standards Council of India (ASCI) for taking action against doctors whose advertisements violate the Medical Code of Ethics...
MUMBAI: At the board meeting of the Advertising Standards Council of India (ASCI), Agro Tech Foods director Narendra Ambwani, was unanimously elected chairman of the board....
NEW DELHI: The first meeting of the expert committee constituted earlier this year for the protection of broadcasting organisation at the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO)...
MUMBAI: In a recent development, the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting (MIB) through an advisory has barred broadcasters from airing advertisements that have been found in...
MUMBAI: The Ministry of Information and Broadcasting (MIB) has come out sharply against ads that have been found ‘violative’ of the rules by Advertising Standards Council...
MUMBAI: For all those who are tired of watching fairness cream advertisements and the way they portray people with dark skin, some relief is here. The...
MUMBAI: In May 2014, Advertising Standard Council of India’s (ASCI) Consumer Complaints Council (CCC) upheld complaints against 121 out of 140 advertisements. Health & personal care category...
An advertising person constantly strives to connect market research data to insights to come up with a winning campaign and who better to understand it than...
MUMBAI: In March 2014, Advertising Standards Council of India’s (ASCI) Consumer Complaints Council (CCC) upheld complaints against 68 out of 108 advertisements. Advertisements in personal and...
MUMBAI: The Advertising Standards Council of India (ASCI), the self-regulatory organisation of advertising content and protecting the interest of consumers in India has announced the retirement...
NEW DELHI: Even as it acknowledges the role of self-regulation in curbing misleading advertisements, the government feels there is a role for powerful execution backed by...
MUMBAI: In the month of February, Advertising Standard Council of India’s (ASCI) Consumer Complaints Council (CCC) upheld 99 out of 136 advertisements. What is interesting that...
MUMBAI: Tired of waiting? Well, now you won’t have to. The advertising content self-regulatory body, the Advertising Standards Council of India (ASCI) will now deliver its...
MUMBAI: For the month of December 2013, Advertising Standards Council of India’s (ASCI) Consumer Complaints Council (CCC) upheld complaints against 87 advertisements. Health & Personal...
MUMBAI: For the month of November 2013, the Advertising Standards Council of India (ASCI) upheld complaints against 57 out of 65 advertisers. As usual, the...
MUMBAI: The Advertising Standards Council of India (ASCI) has asked Proctor & Gamble (P&G) to withdraw or modify its Oral-B advertisement campaign for violating ASCI’s advertising...
MUMBAI: The debate regarding the need of an external body to govern broadcast media has been raging since long. It has now reached the Supreme Court...
MUMBAI: In July 2013, ASCI’s Consumer Complaints Council (CCC) upheld complaints against 177 ads. Most of the misleading ads were from the education sector and promising...
MUMBAI: Partha Rakshit Associates’ proprietor Partha Rakshit was unanimously elected as the chairman at the board meeting of The Advertising Standards Council of India (ASCI). ASCI’s...
MUMBAI: The Advertising Standards Council of India (ASCI) has launched a newly designed website www.ascionline.org and aims to be more user-friendly. The website incorporates an Online...
MUMBAI: The Consumer Complaints Council (CCC) of the Advertising Standards Council of India (ASCI) has upheld complaints against 144 out of 174 advertisements in June. ...
NEW DELHI: Even as the Information and Broadcasting Ministry has stepped up its action against advertisements making misleading claims, the Advertising Standards Council of India the...
NEW DELHI: The Advertising Standards Council of India (ASCI), which is recognised by the government as the primary body for checking misleading commercials, has bagged the...
MUMBAI: ASCI‘s Consumer Complaints Council (CCC) upheld complaints against 52 out of 84 advertisements, which came under the scanner of the self regulatory body in March...
MUMBAI: With the government and consumer bodies making noises about titillating and misleading TV ads, the Indian advertising industry is working on getting its act together....
NEW DELHI: The Advertising Standards Council of India (Asci) rejected six of the fourteen complaints relating to wrongful depiction of women in advertisements during 2012 and...
Mumbai: The Advertising Standards Council of India (ASCI) has won the Best Practice Silver Award at the European Advertising Standards Alliance’s (EASA) Annual Meeting held in...
MUMBAI: The Consumer Complaints Council (CCC) of the advertising watchdog Advertising Standards Council of India (ASCI) witnessed a sharp increase in the number of complaints against...
NEW DELHI: More than ninety per cent of the advertisers comply with the orders of the Advertising Standards Council of India (ASCI). Information and broadcasting ministry...
MUMBAI: For long, some rogue advertisers have been taking advantage of the fact that the advertising industry watchdog, Advertising Standards Council of India (ASCI), takes time...
MUMBAI: Kicking off the new year, The Consumer Complaints Council (CCC) of the Advertising Standards Council of India (ASCI) upheld the highest ever number of complaints...
MUMBAI: The Advertising Standards Council of India (Asci) has pulled up three ads from fast moving consumer goods (FMCG) manufacturer and marketer Hindustan Unilever. In its...
MUMBAI: The Advertising Standards Council of India (ASCI) upheld 11 of the 19 complaints it received against product advertisements in November 2012, including Emami‘s advertisement about...
MUMBAI: For Priti Nair and Naggesh Pannaswami, it wasn‘t the best of times to start their entrepreneurial journey. The Indian economic growth story was getting stained...
MUMBAI: Advertising Standard Council of India‘s (ASCI) National Advertising Monitoring Service (NAMS) has succeeding in increased monitoring of misleading advertisements. In the six months of its...
NEW DELHI: The Government has ruled out any new legislation to check the menace of misleading advertisements on the electronic or print media and feels the...
MUMBAI: Advertising watchdog Advertising Standards Council of India (ASCI) has made FMCG major Hindustan Unilever to pull out two advertisements — Pepsodent Expert Protection Toothpaste and...
