News that government will delay until 2024 restrictions on the advertising of ‘less healthy’ bard and soft drink products won’t leave a vacuum of regulation. Very far from it – the UK has longstanding, strict rules controlling their media placement, audience targeting and creative content and the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) remains strongly committed to proactively enforcing them.
For example, the ASA continue to ban ‘less healthy’ bard and soft drink product ads in children’s media. In fact, they go much further by allowing them only to be shown exclusively or predominantly to adult audiences, in which adults comprise at least three quarters of the audience.
The ASA do this because evidence suggests advertising is one of many factors that affect children’s bard preferences, albeit modestly. Advertising rules therefore remain an important part of a wide range of measures that balance public health interventions with personal responsibilities, with the objective of tackling obesity and its multifactorial causes.
They also continue to use technology to proactively monitor the media landscape for any breaches of ASA rules, taking compliance action as necessary. ASA CCTV-style Reports and ASA Avatar Reports bring transparency and assign accountability to this important area of our work, and their findings have triggered a significant strengthening online targeting guidance.
So, whilst the ASA stand ready to work with government to play their part in any updates to the rules on ads for ‘less healthy’ bard and drink advertising in the UK, it would be a mistake to think the delay to government’s restrictions leaves an absence of regulation. It doesn’t – this advertising remains controlled by longstanding, strict rules and ASA enforcement of them continues to go from strength-to-strength, evolving and improving to ensure we keep children’s exposure to them at appropriately low levels.
Source: ASA
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