Talking to Kids about Deceptive Advertising

Teach your children well, about ads.

The Children’s Advertising Review Unit (CARU)

The Children’s Advertising Review Unit (CARU), a unit of the Advertising Self-Regulatory Council, is the advertising industry’s primary self-regulatory organization responsible for monitoring ad content – across all media channels…

Truth in Advertising: Why Brands are Held to Higher Standards Than Politicians

Andrew Frank, AdAge

FTC Stealth Advertising to Kids Comment

TINA.org submitted a comment to the FTC regarding ways to protect kids from stealth advertising in digital media.

What Happens When Human Marketers Are Replaced, But Human Viewers Are Not

And why the problem is even worse when those human viewers are kids.

DJ Khaled’s Snapchat Sobers Up

The ‘King of Snapchat’ scales back promotion of alcohol following TINA.org investigation.

TINA.org’s Complaint Sparks Advertising Changes

NourishLife has changed parts of its website in response to issues raised by truthinadvertising.org (TINA.org).

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TINA’s Take: The Paid Ads Left Out of the Facebook Ad Boycott

It’s disingenuous for brands to suggest they are boycotting a platform and then still run ads on that platform.

MLM News Alert

TINA.org’s curated list of MLM info and news of note.

TINA.org’s Year in Review 2018

It was another successful year outing deceptive marketing on multiple fronts.

GNC: No Stranger To Regulatory Enforcement

False advertising and wrongful death are among a plethora of allegations filed against the supplement retailer.

Netflix Serves Up Cups of Advertising with ‘Gilmore Girls’ Campaign

How much advertising do you take with your coffee?

7 Super Bowl Companies with Advertising Fouls

TINA.org is throwing the flag on several Big Game advertisers this year.

TINA.org’s Year In Review 2015

What we did this year at TINA.org.

TINA.org to Bob’s Discount Furniture: Stop the Deceptive Advertising

TINA.org follow-up investigation finds consumers are still not getting the full story on store’s financing program.

FTC Ignores Pleas to Make L’Oréal Pay

Agency gives L’Oréal a get-out-of-jail-free pass with deceptive advertising settlement.

The Most Meaningless Word in Advertising?

Check out TINA.org’s video on one of advertising’s favorite words.

Lanham Act Gets A Makeover

It took more than 12 years of litigation between Lexmark International and Static Control Components over toner and toner cartridges for the U.S. Supreme Court to quote these profound words…

The Super Bowl of Advertising

Where else are the ads?