Tag: TV
Advertising Standards Authority bans Coral TV ad
June 1, 2014
iGaming Business – The UK’s Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has banned a television from UK bookmaker Coral after complaints that it linked gambling to seduction. The ad features two men reading a newspaper and discussing horseracing in a barber shop before music starts to play and a woman dressed as a jockey walks in. As she walks past the men, she stops close to one’s gaping jaw with her whip while other men in the shop stare at her. A voice-over then states, ‘Get ready for today’s great offer,’ with the woman holding up a sign bearing the odds for…