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Complaints against 232 advertisements in Sep upheld: ad watchdog
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SME Times News Bureau | 29 Nov, 2017
India's advertising industry
watchdog on Tuesday said its Consumer Complaints Council (CCC) has
upheld complaints against 232 out of 305 advertisements in the
categories of healthcare, food and beverages, education, personal care
and others in September for either misleading campaigns or not able to
substantiate their claim.
"Out of 232 advertisements against
which complaints were upheld, 62 belonged to the healthcare category,
151 to the education category, followed by seven in the food &
beverages category, four in the personal care category and eight
advertisements from other categories," the Advertising Standards Council
of India (ASCI) said in a statement.
In direct complaints, it
processed complaints against advertisements from general public,
industry as well as from the Department of Consumer Affairs' Grievances
Against Misleading Advertisements portal.
"Out of 92
advertisements, complaints against 28 advertisements were upheld. Of
these, 13 advertisements were of healthcare, 2 belonged to the education
category, one belonged to the personal category, four belonged to food
& beverage category and eight belonged to the others category," it
said.
Some advertisements were picked up through its suo moto
surveillance of print and TV media via National Advertisement Monitoring
Services project.
"Out of 213 advertisements, total of 204
advertisements were considered to be misleading. Of these 49
advertisements were of healthcare, 149 belonged to the education
category, three belonged to the personal category and three belonged to
food & beverage category," it added.
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