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Ad Standards handled over 4,000 complaints this year about ads spanning various categories. Today, we reveal the ten ads that prompted the greatest number of individual complaints. Highlights from the top ten: The Ad Standards Community Panel assesses whether an ad…
Ad Standards has released its latest research on community perceptions of advertising. The report offers valuable insights into general attitudes to advertising and Australians’ threshold for offensive language and violence. Richard Bean, Executive Director of Ad Standards, emphasised the importance of the research…
Ad Standards, Australia’s advertising complaints handling body, has announced that Richard Bean will step down from his role as Executive Director at the end of September. Chair of the AANA, Mr Martin Brown, paid tribute to Richard’s leadership and expressed appreciation for his…
In a move set to further improve the effectiveness of advertising self-regulation in Australia, Ad Standards has announced a strategic partnership with Australian-owned advertising intelligence platform, Bigdatr. Bigdatr is known for providing Australia’s biggest brands with insights into competitor marketing activity, including advertising…
Ad Standards has revealed the five ads that attracted the most complaints in 2023. Executive Director Richard Bean said that Ad Standards had received over 3,500 complaints this year and investigated more than 250 ads that raised issues under the advertising industry codes.…
Ad Standards, Australia’s advertising complaints handling body, has launched a new campaign to increase awareness of its role in giving a voice to community concerns about advertising. Executive Director Richard Bean said that Ad Standards is leveraging the power of advertising to remind…
Ad Standards has published its annual Review of Operations. The report provides an overview of Ad Standards’ work in 2022 and a comprehensive analysis of advertising complaints statistics. “Ad Standards undertook a great deal of important work in 2022, work that is driven…
Nine new community representatives have been appointed by Ad Standards, Australia’s advertising complaints handling body, to the Ad Standards Community Panel. The Ad Standards Community Panel is an independent and diverse group of community members responsible for adjudicating complaints made by the public…
Ad Standards, which handles complaints about advertising in Australia, has revealed the ads people complained about the most this year along with the top issues of community concern. Ad Standards Executive Director Richard Bean said that Ad Standards investigated more than 250…
Ad Standards, Australia’s advertising complaints adjudicator, has released new research that provides some insight into community perceptions of advertising and what Australians consider acceptable and unacceptable in advertising content. The research, conducted in late 2021, shows that while Australians are happy seeing…