MUMBAI: HUL‘s two ads, Rin detergent powder and Pepsodent Germicheck Magnet, have run into trouble with India‘s advertising watchdog, ASCI. As per the complaint, the TVC...
MUMBAI: Hindustan Unilever Ltd‘s (HUL) Pepsodent Germicheck Magnet and Ponds Gen White advertisements and Glaxosmithkline Consumer Healthcare‘s Boost advertisement were among those which were disapproved by...
NEW DELHI: The solution to the problems posed by misleading advertisements is not to add one more legislation in the form of an Administrative Authority as...
Mumbai: Chairman of Leo Burnett India Sub Continent Arvind Sharma has been elected as the new chairman of the Advertising Standards Council of India (ASCI) at...
MUMBAI: The Consumer Complaints Council (CCC) of the Advertising Standard Council of India (Asci) upheld complaints made against 25 advertisements from various sectors like education, healthcare,...
MUMBAI: India‘s advertising watchdog, ASCI, has upheld complaints made against nine advertisements in May, including that of Tata Sky‘s tirade against cable TV and Marathi newspaper...
Mumbai: NAMS, the National Advertising Monitoring Service, has tracked down 55 print and TV ads as potentially making misleading/false/unsubstantiated claims. Hence, they were violating chapter 1...
MUMBAI: Asci, the watchdog of the Indian ad industry, has received 24 complaints for the period of March and April, out of which it has upheld...
MUMBAI: With the government pressing for a new set of guidelines to check misleading ads, Asci, India’s advertising industry watchdog, has swung into action. The Advertising...
NEW DELHI: India could open the window for late night slot for telecast of adult ads following a recommendation by the Advertising and Standards Council of...
MUMBAI: In a bid to encourage self regulation in advertising Advertising Standard Council of India (ASCI) in partnership with Goafest 2012 has announced a contest to...
MUMBAI: The Consumer Complaints Council (CCC) of the Advertising Standard Council of India (ASCI) upheld complaints made against 17 advertisements from various sectors like agricultural products,...
MUMBAI: The Consumer Complaints Council (CCC) of Advertising Standards Council of India (Asci) has upheld complaints made against 10 advertisements, most of them being products of...
MUMBAI: The Consumer Complaints Council (CCC) of Advertising Standards Council of India (Asci) has upheld complaints made against 17 advertisements from various sectors like Education, Health,...
MUMBAI: The Advertising Standards Council of India (Asci) has appointed Google India MD and country head Rajan Anandan as a member of its board of directors....
NEW DELHI: The Government today asked the Advertising Standards Council of India (Asci) to improve the self-regulatory mechanism by speeding up the processes and compliance of...
MUMBAI/NEW DELHI: The government has been pressing for a new set of guidelines to check misleading ads. Now ad industry watchdog Asci wants to collaborate with...
NEW DELHI: Even as advertising has grown from Rs 100 billion to Rs 300 billion in the last 20 years, consumers are rewarding those advertising agencies...
NEW DELHI: The government appears to be heading for a confrontation with the advertising fraternity following the insistence of the Consumer Affairs Ministry to draw up...
NEW DELHI: The Advertising Standards Council of India (Asci), the advertising watchdog, has asked the advertisers to display the advisories of the Asci, carried under various...
NEW DELHI: With the Department of Consumer Affairs adamant on setting an agency to check misleading advertisements, the Advertising Standards Council of India has decided to...
MUMBAI: Advertising Standards Council of India’s (Asci) Consumer Complaints Council (CCC) upheld complaints made against 27 advertisements during the quarter April – June 2011. During the...
MUMBAI: Eenadu director I Venkat has been elected chairman of the Board of the Advertising Standards Council of India (Asci). Leo Burnett chairman of India sub-continent...
MUMBAI: Tata Chemicals has said that advertising industry watchdog, ASCI, has upheld its complaint against leaflets circulated by Hindustan Unilever (HUL), said to be denigrating its...
MUMBAI: Advertising industry watchdog, Advertising Standards Council of India (Asci), has asked three advertisements to be taken off-air immediately, as they have been found ‘‘obscene‘‘ and...
MUMBAI: The Consumer Complaints Council (CCC) of Advertising Standards Council of India (ASCI) has upheld complaints against 34 advertisements for the four-month period starting November. The...
MUMBAI: The Advertising Standards Council of India (Asci) received complaints against 159 advertisements during the fiscal year 2009-10. The Consumer Complaints Council (CCC) of Asci pulled...
MUMBAI: Advertising Standards Council of India (ASCI) has pulled the plug on five advertisements from Prabhat Khabar, DNA, Naidunia, FMCG brand Sprite and Liquor brand McDowell’s...
MUMBAI: The recent introduction of guidelines for the education sector advertisements by the Advertising Standards Council of India (ASCI) seems to have made an impact among...
MUMBAI: The advertising code for the educational sector, prescribed by the Advertising Standards Council of India (Asci), will come into force from 1 December. Advertisements of...
Much has happened this year and yet not a lot has happened. For India TV it has been a good year. Two years ago we were...
Marvel Entertainment is tapping the comics business in India. Holding the rights to iconic characters like Spiderman, X-Men and Hulk, it has appointed Kids Media India...
NEW DELHI: Determined to clean up the Indian cable TV of what it feels is indecent content, the government brought in other regulation relating to airing...
MUMBAI: The Tobacco Institute of India chairman Ram Poddar has been unanimously elected chairman of the Board of The Advertising Standards Council of India (ASCI). Poddar,...
MUMBAI: The Subhash Chandra-promoted Zee Telefilms today made a strong pitch for allowing adult content on television, which should be regulated. Reason: it would help bring...
NEW DELHI: The government is finally getting it right. It’s involving the industry where its diktat had failed, especially where surrogate and objectionalble advertising on various...
Manufacturers of liquor and tobacco products advertising on various TV channels under the garb of surrogate advertising, beware. The information and broadcasting ministry is in the...
The Advertising Standards Council of India (ASCI), which on 24 August is launching a campaign to increase confidence in Indian advertising on television and print media,...
