Ad Law Access

Updates on advertising law and privacy law trends, issues, and developments

New York Times Article Discusses Potential Liability for Celebrity Endorsements

A recent New York Times article discussed the FTC’s scrutiny of companies who engage celebrities to endorse their products in social media. The article serves as a timely reminder that this form of advertising, unless…

FTC Closes Investigation Involving a Social Media Promotion

As we've posted before, if a company provides incentives to a consumer in order to encourage the consumer to promote the company’s products, the consumer is required to disclose those incentives. It’s not just the…

FTC Closes an Investigation Involving a Social Media Campaign

As we've noted in previous posts, if a company provides incentives to a consumer in order to encourage the consumer to promote the company's products, the consumer is required to disclose those incentives. It's not…

Pinterest Establishes Business Accounts and Marketing Guidelines

In March, we posted that Pinterest had made changes to its Terms of Service . This month, Pinterest announced new business accounts that are governed by new Business Terms of Service . Pinterest also established Logos,…

Watch Kelley Drye's "Smartphone Revolution" Webinar On Demand

Mobile marketing, sweepstakes and services, including location-based services, are governed by an alphabet soup of statutes and regulations: TCPA, COPPA, CAN-SPAM, CPNI, etc. To complicate compliance even further,…