The ASA recently ruled against Marnie Simpson, late of Geordie Shore and currently an influencer with 3.4 million followers on Instagram and over 305,000 Facebook friends. Granted, the fact that th...

Last week the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) announced that 16 celebrities had agreed not to break the law. OK, that might be overstating it slightly, but the CMA says a number of high-p...

Happy new year and welcome back! I hope you had a good break and didn’t over-indulge to the point of discomfort. I’m not a great one for resolutions, but I did take some time while I was off to thi...

I’ve written about property raffles before and they still seem very popular. I guess for promoters it’s one way of flipping bricks and mortar into a fat profit just by selling some tickets, and for...

So this post is on an ASA ruling from a couple of weeks ago, which I’ve been meaning to blog about. It concerns a Facebook prize draw run by a digital marketing agency called Vindicta, which, I’ve ...

Are you sitting comfortably? Good, because today I’m going to tell you a story about unfortunate influencer and reality TV star Olivia Buckland. You might remember Olivia from Love Island 2016, whe...

When it comes to affiliate marketing promotions and how they should be labelled on social media, one could be forgiven for thinking it’s something of a grey area, as in the last few months there ha...

Last week saw the publication of An Influencer’s Guide to Making Clear that Ads are Ads. Produced by CAP ain conjunction with the CMA, it’s 20 pages of clear information and advice, nicely presente...

I look forward to Wednesdays, because that’s the day the ASA publishes its latest rulings and it's a great way to learn, but sometimes the cases where a complaint isn’t upheld are even more interes...