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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…

Ad Standards, Australia’s advertising complaints adjudicator, has revealed the ten most complained about ads of the year.  Top of the list was a television ad for a domain hosting business that showed a man urinating on a building which members of the community…

Ad Standards reveals the 10 most complained about advertisements in Australia in 2020.   Over 3,400 complaints have been lodged with Ad Standards this year, raising community concerns about 369 advertisements which were assessed against one or more issues in the advertising Codes…

Six new community representatives have been appointed to the Ad Standards Community Panel, Australia’s independent advertising complaints adjudicator. The new members represent a broad range of community values, geographic locations and demographic groups and include a food and nutrition expert, university student, Aboriginal…

A television ad with a sweet story and positive social messaging has been recognised by Ad Standards, Australia’s advertising complaints adjudicator, for creating ‘kinder conditions’ in advertising. The winning TVC ‘mums birthday’ from Cadbury was nominated for promoting social inclusion and “actions that…

The ten most complained about advertisements this decade covers an eclectic mix of ads across the wide range of social issues covered by the advertising Codes administered by Ad Standards. The number of complaints has progressively increased over the decade reflecting increasing community…