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Understanding Consumer Law when Conducting Influencer Marketing Campaigns in the EU and UK

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Long gone are the days where brands could rely simply on purchasing advertising space in newspapers or investing in eye-catching brochures to display their products. Now, the world is their oyster with the advance of the...more

Mayer Brown

UK Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) reminds fashion retailers that it's not so easy to claim you're green

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The UK Competition and Markets Authority ("CMA") has announced that three fashion retailers have signed voluntary undertakings to ensure that consumers have a clearer idea of how green their clothes really are. At the end of...more

Goodwin

A Look Ahead in Life Sciences: What We Are Tracking in Q1 2024 and Beyond

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As the life sciences, medtech, and diagnostic industries continue to expand and grow increasingly complex, so does the legal, regulatory, and compliance landscape. To help companies and investors navigate the many evolving...more

Foley & Lardner LLP

Regulating Influencer Marketing: A Comparative Analysis of Laws Across the World

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In today’s digital era where social media is at the core of all business, influencers have emerged as pivotal players in the world of marketing, wielding significant influence over their followers and the brands they...more

Jones Day

UK's Advertising Regulator Cracks Down on Greenwashing

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Businesses are increasingly making environmental assertions as they seek to demonstrate their sustainability credentials to consumers. This trend, however, is leading to tougher measures from national regulators as they...more

Latham & Watkins LLP

UK Advertising Standards Authority Publishes Updated Guidance on Greenwashing Claims

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The ASA conveyed a sense of urgency, as it believes influencing consumer behaviour will be an important part of meeting UK net zero targets. On 23 June 2023, the UK’s Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) published an...more

Locke Lord LLP

‎#advertisingcompliance: Influencer Marketing in the UK‎

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The Advertising Standards Authority (“ASA”), the UK’s independent advertising regulator, recently added yet another well-known influencer to its published “naughty list” of influencers found to have repeatedly failed to...more

Latham & Watkins LLP

FCA Implements Strategies to Clamp Down on Illegal Social Media Financial Promotions

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The regulator described the steps it is taking to increase scrutiny of advertisements about financial products and services on social media platforms. On 3 February 2023 the FCA published an analysis of its financial...more

K&L Gates LLP

Ensure Your Discount Communications are Compliant Before You Hop on the Sales Season Omnibus!

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As “Holiday Season” is increasingly synonymous with “Sales Season”, and with many sales already in full swing (Black Friday in particular), brands and traders should make sure that their discounting campaigns are compliant...more

Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP

Disclosure: Financial Institution Advertisement Banned by UK Regulator

The UK’s Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has ruled that two UK retail banking advertisements, which made claims about the financial institution’s green credentials, were “misleading” and “omitted material information.”...more

Morrison & Foerster LLP

Truly Green or Emperor’s New Clothes? - The UK CMA Targets Fast Fashion First In Its Investigation of Sustainability Claims

On 29 July 2022, the UK Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) launched an investigation into three fashion firms over potentially misleading eco-friendly and sustainability claims about their products....more

Kelley Drye & Warren LLP

UK’s ASA Roasts Oatly’s Climate-Friendly Claims

If you’re among the over 40% of U.S. consumers who vowed to change how you eat in the new year, fitting into pants that don’t have elastic waistbands may one of numerous motivators. For many consumers, climate considerations...more

Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP

Influencer Post Lacked Necessary Disclosure, Says British Ad Authority

The British Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has cracked down on influencer advertising, finding that even if a company did not explicitly require the influencer to post on its behalf, the simple fact that the individual...more

Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P.

Food & Beverage Litigation Update l October 2019 #3

LEGISLATION, REGULATIONS & STANDARDS - Advertising Complaint Upheld Against U.K. Hemp Rum Co. - The U.K. Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has upheld a complaint against The Cornish Rum Co. against its ads marketing...more

White & Case LLP

The CMA launches a new market study in a bid to keep pace with a fast-moving digital economy

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On 3 July 2019, the Competition & Markets Authority ('CMA') announced a new Digital Markets Strategy, which sets out the watchdog's new "road map" for policy development in a bid to keep pace with a rapidly developing digital...more

Neal, Gerber & Eisenberg LLP

Client Alert: Celebrities and Influencers Remain Regulator Targets

The British government agency that regulates advertising, the Competition and Markets Authority (“CMA”), recently sent a wave of warning letters to British celebrities and other social media influencers, including Rita Ora,...more

Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P.

Food & Beverage Litigation Update | August 2018 #3

LEGISLATION, REGULATIONS & STANDARDS - ASA Upholds Complaints Against Ads Targeting Children - The U.K. Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has upheld the Obesity Health Alliance’s complaints against advertisements...more

Hogan Lovells

House of Lords issues report on digital advertising market

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Yesterday the House of Lords published a report into the UK’s digital advertising market. It includes: a call for a CMA study into whether the market is working fairly for businesses and consumers; proposals for enhancing...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

Do We Need A Truth In Advertising Act? The Industry and Retailers Self-Regulate Photoshopping Ads

Digitally altered images of models have been a controversial advertising issue for decades. In Great Britain, the Advertising Standards Authority Ltd., which is the governing regulatory advertising body, in 2011 banned...more

Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P.

Dietary Supplement & Cosmetics Legal Bulletin | October 2017

The use of beauty products is “an understudied source of environmental chemical exposures” with a disparate effect on women of color, George Washington University and Occidental College researchers argue. Ami R. Zota, et al.,...more

Morrison & Foerster LLP - Social Media

UK Consumer Protection Regulator Cracks Down on Undisclosed Endorsements and “Cherry Picking” Reviews on Social Media

Social media is reportedly rife with influencers promoting or reviewing products or services without disclosing compensation or other consideration that they’ve received for such endorsements. The Competition and Markets...more

Cooley LLP

Blog: Building, Marketing and Maintaining Your Brand in the UK

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Building, marketing and maintaining a strong brand is fundamental to ensuring the success of a new company. Not only will a strong brand confer a competitive advantage through encouraging brand loyalty, but it will have...more

Morrison & Foerster LLP - Social Media

What Are the Rules of the Advergame in the UK?

Advergames are online video games that are created in order to promote a brand, product or organization by immersing a marketing message within the game. They are typically accessed via an organization’s website or app, or...more

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