My colleague and friend, Andrea Levine, has been the Director of the Advertising Self-Regulatory Council’s National Advertising Division (NAD) and Senior Vice President of the Council of Better Business Bureaus for the past 20 years. It’s quite a title, and tenure, and as she prepares to move on to her next challenge, I asked her
Intel Gets Extraverted
In the last few years, Intel’s advertising has become a lot less inward-focused. For decades, the company’s “Intel Inside” campaign directed consumers’ attention to the chips that Intel puts inside electronic devices. While that campaign (with its instantly recognizable bong-bong-bong jingle) helped make the company what it is today, Intel hasn’t been content to rest
The Untold Value of Video Advertising
They say a picture is worth 1,000 words, but what about video? Whoever is behind the famous aphorism never crunched the numbers on video, but you’d have to think that the words-to-video conversion rate would be very large. After all, video advertisements are known to have tremendous advantages, even over those that use pictures. Video
What is the Advertising Self-Regulatory Council Dealing with in 2016?
There aren’t a lot of rules on the Internet. The World Wide Web is a wild west environment where the standard rules regarding sales tax, privacy, and decorum don’t apply. All of which makes it seem like a strange place for self-regulation. And yet, that’s the mission of the Advertising Self-Regulatory Council, the industry body
The Whirlpool Effect: Emotional Ads Boost Sales
Buying is an emotional act. Science bears this out. Functional MRI scans, in fact, show that people often rely on emotions rather than information when evaluating brands. Other studies have found that the emotions triggered by an ad influence a potential customer’s intent to buy far more than the actual content – by a factor
Thoughts on Trust in Advertising …
Once again, Advertising Week has come and gone. And once again, I was thrilled to be part a special event for our industry. It’s not often that you can get famous statistician Nate Silver, Olympian Lolo Jones, and musician Bootsy Collins under a single tent, but they were all there at Ad Week – along
Advertising Week’s Trust Forum in New York, NY
Davis & Gilbert was proud to be part of Advertising Week’s Trust Forum in New York, NY on Wednesday, September 30th. I kicked off The Trust Forum by hosting a candid, one-on-one conversation with ANA President and CEO, Bob Liodice, on the most vexing issues involving advertisers and trust. To check out our conversation, click
New York Attorney General Is Latest Regulator to Challenge the Auto Industry
Recently, I co-authored the below advertising alert with Advertising, Marketing & Promotions Partner, Matt Smith.
On the heels of recent high-profile enforcement actions by both the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) against the automobile industry, the New York Attorney General (NYAG) has now zeroed in on the industry as
Part 3: FTC Updates Answers to Frequently Asked Questions About Endorsement Guides
As you know, over the past few weeks, Advertising, Marketing & Promotions Partner Allison Fitzpatrick and I have been discussing the FTC’s updated answers to its FAQs. The following topics will conclude this series: online reviews, employee endorsements, and monitoring.
Online Reviews: According to the FTC, a retail website that includes customer reviews of the