Tag: TV advertising
House of Lords to amend pre-watershed TV advertising
March 4, 2014
iGaming Business – Concerns that UK children are being too exposed to online gambling may lead to a tightening of the regulations allowing daytime TV adverts for online bingo sites and pre-watershed advertising for betting sites, the Independent on Sunday newspaper reported this weekend. Maria Miller, the Culture Secretary, “will face calls for an urgent review of the effects on children of a surge in daytime advertising for online bingo, saturation sports betting in football matches, and “free” betting on platforms including Facebook”, the newspaper said. Bingo is widely seen as a communal and leisurely form of gambling and its…