Friday, March 14, 2008

Offensive ads by UK agency ordered discontinued

by Naomi P.

A March 13 post on The Media Law Professors blog says that The Advertising Standards Authority in England ruled that several ads produced by British ad agency Jemilla for hair product Ghd by Sephora should be discontinued in their present incarnation because they were offensive to the Christian faith.

Other ads from the same campaign, which has quasi-religious overtones, have also received complaints, but are not affected. One of the allowed print ads can be seen on the Sephora website.

The Advertising Standards Authority is an industry self-regulating body and not part of the government of the UK.

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