Tuesday, 13 May 2003
Microsoft, McDonalds and the Advertising Standards Authority
A wander around the depths of the Advertising Standards Authority, the UK self-regulatory advertising body. A few things that are interesting and/or amusing:
- Statistics on complaints and other information.
- All e-mail and internet adjudications since 1993.
- After those two, you may want to know that the page where you can make a complaint should be here, only there's a terrible Microsoft database error instead. Maybe it will come back.
- Here is a list of all adjudications since 1993 concerning magazine advertisements, where the advertiser name began with "M" (you'll see where I'm running with this next).
- You are not allowed to view the McDonalds adjudication...
- ...but here's an adjudication concerning Microsoft's advert claiming 5 9s reliability. The complainant believed achieving 99.999% uptime using the advertised product (Windows 2000) was not possible.
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The links for making a complaint and listing all the "m" adjudications just point me back to the ASA homepage. Is that supposed to happen?!
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