Ad watchdog raps daily deals sites LivingSocial and kgb
16 Nov 2011 | by Sarah Shearman
Daily deals sites are coming under fire from the advertising watchdog again, with Living Social and kgb both having sales promotion ads banned this week.
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Daily deals sites are coming under fire from the advertising watchdog again, with Living Social and kgb both having sales promotion ads banned this week.
The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has banned two L'Oréal cosmetics ads featuring Christy Turlington and Julia Roberts, following complaints by Liberal Democrat MP Jo Swinson that they had been digitally manipulated.
A TV ad claiming that consumers could save "over £140" if they switched to TalkTalk's Essentials broadband and phone package, has been banned by the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) after rival telecoms firm BT complained that it was misleading.
The Independent's cut-price sister title i has been banned from running a TV ad that claimed it featured no celebrity gossip, which has been judged misleading by the ASA.