The history of the “When it rains, it pours” slogan and the Morton Salt Girl logo “‘When it rains, it pours’ sounds like wise wisdom from Confucius or the Bible or even the moral of an Aesop’s Fable. In reality, this saying is one of the earliest and …
Watchdog investigates tube adverts for Floki Inu cryptocurrency
Advertising Standards Authority receives complaints about ads for meme coin named after Elon Musk’s dogThe UK advertising watchdog has launched an investigation into a London bus and underground ad campaign for Floki Inu, a meme coin named after a dog …
街頭でスマートフォンにQRコードを読ませる手口の勧誘が増加
街頭でスマートフォンにQRコードを読ませようとする勧誘が増えているようだ（Togetter）。せきぐちあいみさんのツイートによると、今日中目黒駅で見知らぬ2人組の男女に「僕達の新事業のQRコード読み取ってもらえませんか?」て言われて「え、得体の知れないQR読み込むの怖いんで検索とか出来ますか?」て返したら「あっ…それは出来ないんです。じゃあ大丈夫です」って去っていったんだけど多分なんか変な人達だったな。。という感じで事なきを得たようだ。そんな中、実際にQRを読み取ってみた猛者もいたようだ。実際に読み…
There will soon be no more ads denying climate change on Google
Search giant nixes ads contradicting scientific consensus on climate change.
Social media firms serve as gateway for scammers, says finance watchdog
FCA threatens action unless platforms such as Facebook, Twitter and Instagram do not toughen up against fraudstersSocial media sites such as Facebook and Instagram serve as a “gateway” for fraudsters, the City watchdog has warned, as it demanded they t…
we’re not actually above anyone. we’re not smarter than this.
“Being a fat lady and trying to do all the things that fat ladies are supposed to do took me right there,” Ms. Gordon said. “I’ve been doing all the things, and it’s not really producing the result that I’ve been promised for, you know, the majority of…
East Midlands Railway breached ad rules by axing competition, finds ASA
Train company said winning entry would receive £5,000 but cancelled prize due to ‘poor quality entries’A train company breached advertising rules by cancelling a competition because of “poor quality entries”, the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) h…
Nike and Amazon among brands advertising on Covid conspiracy sites
Household names may have unwittingly helped spread fake news, investigation revealsDozens of the world’s biggest brands, including Nike, Amazon, Ted Baker and Asos, have been advertising on websites that spread Covid-19 misinformation and conspiracy th…
石油会社との関係に終止符？ 米国の広告代理店が迫られる「苦渋の決断」
米国で石油会社やガス会社を相手取った訴訟が相次いでいる。化石燃料の使用が気候変動に与えた影響について国民を欺いたという理由だが、その影響が化石燃料企業をクライアントにもつ広告代理店へも広がり始めた。訴訟の当事者になるリスクも生じるなか、クリエイティヴ業界を中心に化石燃料企業との関係を断つ動きがあるのだ。
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Everyone loves collecting data, nobody loves analyzing it later
Denial was always untenable, for Zuckerberg in particular. The so-called techlash, a season of belatedly brutal media coverage and political pressure in the aftermath of Brexit and Trump’s win, made it difficult. But Facebook’s basic business pitch ma…