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HEALTH AND BEAUTY ads received the most complaints last year according to the annual report of the Advertising Standards Authority for Ireland (ASAI).
The ASAI said it received 229 complaints about health and beauty ads last year, a significant increase on the 166 made the year before.
This made health and beauty the most-complained-about sector, ahead of the leisure industry which accounted for 172 complaints.
The ASAI has previously said it was fielding dozens of complaints about influencers and added today that its work has had an impact on policy and codes for “influencer marketing and recognisability”.
Under ASAI guidelines, bloggers must ensure that marketing communications are clearly disclosed as such. It recommends that bloggers use “identifiers” on paid posts like the hashtags ‘#ad’ or ‘#sp’ for ‘sponsored’.
The ASAI also points to its influence in areas such as concerns about childhood obesity and mobile and broadband advertising.
Overall, the ASAI said that it received 1,858 written complaints concerning 1,360 advertisements last year. This represents a 10% annual increase on the number of complaints and a 15% increase in the number of ads complained about.
Digital media gave rise to almost half (48%) of all complaints while TV and radio combined for 30% of complaints.
CEO of the ASAI Orla Twomey said today that compliance with the adjudications of its complaints committee “demonstrates that advertisers in Ireland are completely on board with the ASAI in our bid to protect consumers”.
Chairman of the ASAI Sea O’Meara added:
As the advertising ecosystem continues to evolve, it is imperative that the ASAI’s aim of providing consumer protection is properly funded.
While the ASAI has strong support from all traditional media in Ireland, we urge digital organisations to engage both from a compliance and funding point of view to ensure we can continue serving the industry and most importantly, protecting consumers across all advertising and marketing communication.”
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Ar dheis Dé go raibh a h-anam dílis.
God rest his soul indeed fantastic work for kildare
@its so unfair: Yes he did great work in the community. Very supportive of our efforts in The Community centre in the Mill in Celbridge.
He was a good man …may he rest in peace
RIP. A proper gentleman and politician.
LIKE MANY LABOUR TDs of his era he was an honorable Principled,individual admirable man .Much admired by us sixties people .!!!!!
@Elizabeth Doyle: Except for…..
@Elizabeth Doyle: what World do you live in
@Elizabeth Doyle: Really,??
@Ollie Fitzpatrick: i believe he’s referring to the Paul gogarty incident in the dail, not cursing the deceased person
@Mr “JonnieBoy” Johnson: A strange way to do it if so! Anyway both our posts were deleted so I’m ok with that!!
He disagreed with the provisional politics of his brother Frank Stagg and didn’t want his funeral, after a hunger strike in Wakefield prison, to be conducted publicly in a martyr mode. https://www.thejournal.ie/emmet-stagg-death-6330364-Mar2024/
A family clash over constitutional parliamentary politics and physical force extra constitutional politics.
Fianna Fail wasn’t part of that rainbow coalition.
His conflict with Gogarty his best work
RIP
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