Questions tagged [advertisements]
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Why can't advertisers say 'Super Bowl'?
Around this time every year there are lots of ads talking about 'The Big Game' or the 'Suberb'-something. Essentially whatever it takes to say their thing is for the Super Bowl, without actually using the word.
I've heard that this is because the…
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Can the original price mentioned in a discount be anything?
I wonder whether when a business advertises a sale or discount, the displayed original price can be anything, or it has to be the actual price when there is no discount.
Example on Groupon:
or Amazon:
I am mostly interested in the following…
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Naming a favorite music group - non allowed type of advertising?
In a theoretical scenario, there is an actor having an interview in a TV show. They ask him, what is his favorite music. Can he name a particalur one, like Linkin Park? Or that would be considered non-allowed type of advertising? Thank you.
EDIT: Is…
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Would comparative advertising, from a country where it is allowed, in a country where it is banned, be allowed?
Note: I have little to no idea about how the law behind this works, I will try to cite my claims as well as I can.
The title of the question is a bit hard to understand but I'll specify it here:
Let's imagine I live in Germany, which is part of the…
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Advertise that buying one product will support the creation of a different product
Lets say i'm a video game developer, and I am coming out with a hot new game called 'X'. The time it takes to produce X is years and years. Through those years, I spent a month to take a break making game 'Y'. Y is a complete game. Can I say to…
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Why are manufacturers allowed to make false claims about memory capacity of thumbdrives?
I have a number of thumb drives and hard drives. One hard drive I bought was said to be 2TB but its actual capacity is about 1.8 TB. A couple of thumb drives I got say they are 16 GB but on the back say:
1MB = 1,000,000 bytes /
1GB =…
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Is it legal to advertise something as "free" that requires membership fee or entrance fee or purchase?
Is it legal to advertise something as "free" that requires membership fee or entrance fee or purchase?
Example 1:
Free drinks if you buy this meal for $20
vs
Unlimited refills if you buy this meal for $20
In other words can a restaurant…
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To what extent is this false advertising/deception?
If a certain company sells a product to customer A for $10, could the company legally tell customer B (during a private negotiation) that customer A paid more than they actually did in an attempt to have customer B pay more?
When does this become…
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Can I display an ad on YouTube channel(borderline pretending they are a sponsor)?
So I have begun display ads for "The Dollar Shave Club" and "dbrand" on my Youtube to make it seem more like an official Youtube channel and because I like these companies.
I understand there are "false pretence" laws. As long as I don't state that…
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How is showing ads and trailers to moviegoers legal?
Bob is a very busy dude. He hates wasting time. He also hates obtrusive ads.
He buys a ticket for a movie which he really really wants to see. The ticket says: "Time: 7:00 PM". Sometimes the fine print may say that the theatre may play ads for 5-15…
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