Ad Law Access
NAD’s Molson Coors Decision: The Watering Down of the Objective Claim Standard
Last week, NAD released a decision in a case involving a Molson Coors ad that has received more press attention than any NAD decision in recent memory. In the ad, athletes are celebrating the completion of a difficult…
Senate Judiciary Hearing on Kid’s Privacy – Sunny with a Chance of Section 230 Reform
As we’ve described here, the Senate made major strides last year on legislation to protect children’s privacy and safety online. Indeed, two bipartisan bills sailed through a Commerce Committee markup, though they…
Twitter Is The First Major Social Media Platform to Expressly Allow Cannabis Advertising
Twitter became the first social media platform to expressly allow cannabis advertising. Effective last week, Twitter’s U.S. ad policy states as follows: What's the policy? Twitter prohibits the promotion of drugs and…
NAD Finds Advertiser Can’t Support Aspirational Net Zero Claims
If you tell your friends about your new year’s resolutions, odds are that most of those friends won’t push you for too much detail on how you plan to achieve your goals. But if those friends work at NAD, you might…
Is the FTC a “Regulator”? It Sure Seems to be Moving in that Direction
For the 26+ years I served at the FTC, the agency always described itself as a “law enforcement agency,” not a “regulator.” That’s because the FTC spent most of its resources on enforcing the FTC Act and other laws…