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November 2020
Case number Ad Standards description Determination Category Media Determination datesort descending
0343-20 Sportsbet
The Advertisement shows a group of friends hiking up a mountain. Once they reach the top one of the men pulls out a 'selfie stick' which is holding his mobile phone. All men lean in towards the phone to watch the live racing on the Sportsbet app
Dismissed Gambling TV - Free to Air 25/11/2020
0345-20 Ford Australia
This television advertisement depicts two Ford vehicles: (1) a delivery driver parking a Ford Transit Custom in front of a business’ gate in order to deliver a package; and (2) a construction worker parking their Ford Ranger at a construction site and putting on their work boots.
Dismissed Vehicle TV - Free to Air 25/11/2020
0346-20 Youi
This television advertisement has three versions: A man packaging oysters. A man and woman making soup. A woman and man packaging dog treats.
Dismissed Insurance TV - Free to Air 25/11/2020
0347-20 Lotterywest
This television advertisement is set in a living room. A female character is shown watching the television and jumping up and down with excitement. She starts to look dizzy, then she faints and falls onto the safety of her couch. The voiceover reveals that she’s just won OZ Lotto and fainted from excitement. The end graphics promoting OZ Lotto fade onto the screen.
Upheld - Modified or Discontinued Gambling TV - Free to Air 25/11/2020
0349-20 Beachport Caravan Park
This television advertisement begins with a scene of a person's bare feet on the dashboard of a car as it drives into town.Further scenes shows attractions of the town and the facilities of the advertised caravan park.
Dismissed Tourist Attractions TV - Free to Air 25/11/2020
December 2020
Case number Ad Standards description Determination Category Media Determination datesort descending
0361-20 Resume Results NQ
This Facebook advertisement is an image of a meme showing two construction workers and the text: BOSS: Know why I called you in here? ME: Because I accidently sent you a dick pic BOSS: (stops pouring 2 glasses of wine) Accidently?
Upheld - Not Modified or Discontinued Professional Service Internet - Social - Facebook 16/12/2020
0372-20 Hard Fizz
This Instagram advertisement features five people: three in a swimming pool, one sitting on the edge of the pool, and one jumping in. Three of the people are holding beverages. The accompanying text states: SUNDAY SESH ON POINT [emoji] #letsgetfizzy
Dismissed Alcohol Internet - Social - Instagram 16/12/2020
0362-20 Laser Clinics Australia
This advertisement appeared on the Spotify app. There are several versions with different layout, however all contain an image of a woman's midsection. She is wearing a white crop tops and pants and is grasping her skin. The accompanying text states "Freeze away the bits that won't budge".
Dismissed Slimming App 16/12/2020
0373-20 IKEA Australia
This television advertisement features various people walking through a field and turning on lights hanging from trees and lamps on tables.
Dismissed Retail TV - Free to Air 16/12/2020
0363-20 Ford Australia
This advertisement depicts a man and woman in the city with their dog. The background flickers off to show viewers that the couple are actually not in the city at all but in a studio with a green screen behind them. At this time, the dog is shown to not be a real dog but, actually, played by an actor wearing a green screen suit.
Dismissed Vehicle Internet 16/12/2020
0374-20 Telstra
This Pay TV advertisement features various people singing in their cars, using a mobile phone to video call each other.
Dismissed Mobile Phone or SMS TV - Pay 16/12/2020
0364-20 Bluebet
This television advertisement features a man talking to camera about various blue things - Blue tongue lizards, blue rinses, cheeky little bluey, etc.
Dismissed Gambling TV - Free to Air 16/12/2020
0375-20 Ramada Philip Island
This Instagram advertisement by Olivia White contains 8 photographs and text promoting Ramada Philip Island
Dismissed Travel Internet - Social - Instagram 16/12/2020
0365-20 IAG Insurance
This television advertisement shows a woman asleep at the wheel of a vehicle and her children asleep in the back seat as the vehicle drives them home autonomously.
Dismissed Insurance TV - Free to Air 16/12/2020
0376-20 LifeStyles Healthcare
This TV On Demand advertisement depicts a number of individuals in intimate positions with a partner in a car and room, while the voice over recites the song “Heads, Shoulders, Knees and Toes, and eyes, ears, mouth, nose", to accompany the movement of these different body parts.
Dismissed Health Products TV - On Demand 16/12/2020
0355-20 Retail Food Group
This Facebook advertisement features an animated image with a purple background and the words 'After school treats just got more exciting!' and three decorated donuts - a llama, narwhal and unicorn. The three donuts wiggle.
Dismissed Food/Bev Venue Internet - Social - Facebook 16/12/2020
0366-20 Aware Super Pty Ltd
There are two versions of this television advertisement, a 45 second version and a 60 second version. Both versions feature a nurse witnessing and responding to a traffic accident.
Dismissed Finance/Investment TV - Free to Air 16/12/2020
0378-20 Coles
This television advertisement features Curtis Stone advertising Christmas pork meals. It features him holding a roast pork, carving a roast pork and images of people celebrating Christmas. There is also vision of farms and farmers.
Dismissed Food/Bev Groceries TV - Free to Air 16/12/2020
0356-20 Retail Food Group
This advertisement is a webpage with a video advertising a new range of donuts.
Dismissed Food/Bev Venue Internet 16/12/2020
0367-20 Toyota Motor Corporation Australia
This television advertisement shows scene of three siblings being late to their parents anniversary and their attempts to get there.
Upheld - Modified or Discontinued Vehicle TV - Free to Air 16/12/2020
0357-20 Toyota Motor Corporation Australia
This television advertisement features a couple packing up in the bush and realising their dog is completely covered in mud. They use Siri in the vehicle to navigate to a dog groomer. The muddy dog is bundled out of the backseat and the scene changes to the clean dog re-entering the car. The woman looks at the man and notices that he also looks different and cleaner. They then have a conversation where he sheepishly says that he took up a 2-for-1 offer at the dog groomer.
Dismissed Vehicle TV - Free to Air 16/12/2020
0368-20 ZURU Inc.
This television advertisement for a robotic fish depicts children placing the fish into a glass coffee percolator jug, and a man seeing the fish in the jug.
Dismissed Toys and Games TV - Free to Air 16/12/2020
0358-20 Hungry Jacks
This television advertisement features 5 people sitting at a bench and using their hands and coloured drinking glasses to make music.
Dismissed Food/Bev Venue TV - Free to Air 16/12/2020
0369-20 Coca-Cola South Pacific
This radio advertisement features a person asking 'anything else for you today?' and a bell sounds. Another person responds, "Yeah… maybe something frosty, like taking an ice bath inside a giant walk-in refrigerator while being fanned by a polar bear holding giant palm leaves, but with a splash of lemon-lime." The first person states "Wanna Sprite?"
Dismissed Food/Bev Groceries Radio 16/12/2020
0359-20 Mondelez International
This advertisement features a child in the back seat of a car rapping the lyrics to a song on the radio and a woman driving
Dismissed Food/Bev Groceries TV - Free to Air 16/12/2020
0370-20 AVIS
This television advertisement features a woman walking though a jungle. She then walks into a bathroom with a man singing in the shower. The ad closes with the woman passing the man a towel as he steps out of the shower and is shown from behind.
Dismissed Vehicle TV - Free to Air 16/12/2020
0348-20 Hesta
This television advertisement features two scenes of a group of people sitting on the edge of a tall building.
Dismissed Finance/Investment TV - Free to Air 16/12/2020
0360-20 Resume Results NQ
This Facebook advertisement is an image of a meme showing the text" "Do you have any talents? Me:" and a man dressed in hard hat and high visibility jacket crouching on the ground. The shadow that he makes on the ground bears similarity to a penis and testicles.
Upheld - Not Modified or Discontinued Professional Service Internet - Social - Facebook 16/12/2020
0371-20 Ubisoft
This television advertisement is for the video game Assassins Creed Valhalla.
Dismissed Toys and Games TV - Free to Air 16/12/2020
January 2021
Case number Ad Standards description Determination Category Media Determination datesort descending
0391-20 Hard Fizz
This Instagram advertisement features a woman in a white bikini and roller-skates from the neck down. A can of the product is at her feet.
Dismissed Alcohol Internet - Social - Instagram 20/01/2021
0379-20 Honey Birdette
There are two versions of this poster advertisement. The first version shows two women in red lingerie on either side of Santa. Santa is tied up with ropes. The second version shows a woman in red lingerie who has one hand resting on Santa. Santa is lying on the ground with ropes around him.
Dismissed Lingerie Poster 20/01/2021
0392-20 Hard Fizz
This Instagram advertisement features a woman in a white bikini leaning out the side of the pool. Her head isn't visible and the product is in the foreground.
Dismissed Alcohol Internet - Social - Instagram 20/01/2021
0380-20 Honey Birdette
This poster advertisement features two different versions. In the first version two women dressed in black lace lingerie are standing next to Santa who is reading a list. In the second version one woman stands in the foreground with her hand to her head, whilst Santa and another woman can be seen in the background.
Dismissed Lingerie Poster 20/01/2021
0002-21 Wicked Campers
This transport advertisement features the slogan "The best thing about oral sex is the 5 minutes of silence" on the rear. South Australian registration S844 BVI.
Upheld - Not Modified or Discontinued Travel Transport 20/01/2021
0381-20 Honey Birdette
This poster advertisement features two women in purple lace lingerie and the words 'Whitney Indigo". The woman in the foreground is biting a cookie.
Dismissed Lingerie Poster 20/01/2021
0382-20 Honey Birdette
This poster advertisement features a woman in red lingerie sitting with her legs apart, leaning forward on her arms between them. The word 'Madame' is superimposed over the image.
Dismissed Lingerie Poster 20/01/2021
0384-20 BCF
This television advertisement depicts groups of men, women and children engaged in various outdoor activities. One scene shows a man appearing to eat a bat as part of a sandwich. The characters sing a jingle that highlights the sense of joy that comes from participating in these activities in Australia.
Dismissed Sport and Leisure TV - Free to Air 20/01/2021
0385-20 Oyun.Se
This Facebook advertisement includes a series of images advertising a games website and different games. The cartoon images include: - a red cartoon bird with a target symbol - a yellow cartoon bird with red bandana and cigar - a person in a yellow dress bending over with her underwear visible. - a person in spotted underpants/bikini bending over with a red imprint of a hand across their buttocks.
Dismissed Entertainment Internet - Social - Facebook 20/01/2021
0003-21 Love Honey
This television advertisement features a voice-over stating: "Ever imagined what a female climax feels like? Stop imagining. Meet the Arcwave Ion, available at Lovehoney."
Dismissed Sex Industry TV - Free to Air 20/01/2021
0386-20 Optus Communications
This television advertisement features a woman looking out a window speaking into a phone. A group of children can be seen across the road attempting to retrieve a frisbee from a roof with a makeshift pole and hook. The woman continues to give directions over the phone. They eventually knock the frisbee off the roof.
Dismissed Mobile Phone or SMS TV - Free to Air 20/01/2021
0004-21 Crazy Maple Studio
This in-app advertisement for the game Chapters Interactive Stories features a close-up of a cartoon woman's face and two hands raise a ball gag towards her mouth.
Dismissed Entertainment App 20/01/2021
0387-20 Samsung Electronics
This Instagram advertisement has three versions and comprises footage of a Galaxy Note20 being unwrapped as a gift by a man, with the 15 and 30 seconds versions containing additional footage showing two children playing in the background while the man unwraps his gift and then cutting to the man using the Galaxy Note20 to rehearse with his band.
Dismissed Mobile Phone or SMS Internet - Social - Instagram 20/01/2021
0005-21 Medex Australia Pty Ltd
This television advertisement features a man speaking about the product.
Dismissed Automotive TV - Free to Air 20/01/2021
0389-20 Toyota Motor Corporation Australia
This television advertisement opens with an aerial scene in which the GR Yaris (Vehicle) is being driven. The vehicle specifications are shown alongside dust, which is kicked up from the Vehicle as it drives in circles. The focus then changes to the driver of the Vehicle who is shown in full racing livery, including helmet. The Vehicle is then shown driving down a dirt road in the country and turns onto a bitumen road.
Dismissed Vehicle TV - Free to Air 20/01/2021
0006-21 Carlton United Brewery
This Twitter advertisement for zero alcohol beer features a man swimming whilst drinking beer and operating a jack hammer.
Dismissed Alcohol Internet - Social - Twitter 20/01/2021
0390-20 Hard Fizz
This Instagram advertisement on the @juan-medina_jcm page features the caption "A bit fizzy @chloechapman @hard_fizz @fae". The post features a series of images.
Dismissed Alcohol Internet - Social - Instagram 20/01/2021
0008-21 Australia Post
This television advertisement has a 30second and 60second version and features a cockatoo being destructive to a family’s outdoor Christmas tree. A young girl has decorations delivered, and then uses a ladder to place a box with decorations in a tree for the cockatoo.
Dismissed House Goods Services TV - Free to Air 20/01/2021
February 2021
Case number Ad Standards description Determination Category Media Determination datesort descending
0021-21 Volkswagen Group Australia Pty Limited
This television advertisement is for the Volkswagen Amarok. The Advertisement depicts a man driving his Ute and taking his driving cues from a bobblehead toy dog, sitting on his dash, nodding its head. As the driver is presented with different off-road environments, the bobblehead toy dog nods him on with approval. The Advertisement ends with, “Say Yeah! To the most powerful ute in its class”.
Dismissed Vehicle TV - Free to Air 10/02/2021
0022-21 Audi Australia
This television advertisement is for the Audi Etron. It features a man and his dog imagining the vehicle in different scenarios.
Dismissed Vehicle TV - Free to Air 10/02/2021
0025-21 Bellamy's Organic
This internet advertising features two banner images of Tasmanian landscape with words superimposed over them. They read: - A Pure Start to Life premium Certified Organic formula and baby food made right here in Australia - Winner #1 favorite organic brand 2020
Dismissed Food/Bev Groceries Internet 10/02/2021

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