Digital media dominates India's advertising violations, with Meta platforms leading the surge. Illegal betting ads, often disguised, are a ...

Offshore betting and real estate led advertising violations in 2024-25, according to ASCI's report, accounting for 68% of total breaches. D...

The Advertising Standards Council of India has joined forces with multiple gaming federations to address illegal offshore betting and gambl...

ASCI has advised LinkedIn influencers to disclose their connections with brands they promote to ensure compliance with regulations. This st...

Digital platforms accounted for 93% of scrutinised ads, with 2,087 ads on the medium flagged for direct legal violations. The top five cate...

Honasa Consumer, owner of Mamaearth, has reduced influencer posts after being named the biggest violator of advertising content for FY24. O...

ASCI examined 10,093 complaints and investigated 8299 advertisements. The majority of violations were on account of misleading claims at 81...

ASCI observed a significant increase in ads directly violating the Drug and Magic Remedies Act of 1954, leading to the issuance of intimati...

"In spite of the Consumer Protection Act now legally requiring celebrities to do their due diligence when they appear in ads, in 97 per cen...

Nearly 48% of the 5,532 ads ASCI processed were digital ones, the report said. With its influencer guidelines coming into force last year, ...

After seeing the ad campaign, the Advertising Standards Council of India (ASCI) immediately invoked a special process called "Suspended Pen...

“It is not acceptable, for example, to associate characteristics such as sluggishness with a certain body shape. Similarly, to deride someo...

"We continue to monitor the IPL closely for violations of certain focus sectors such as brand extensions of alcohol brands, gaming and fint...

EaseMyTrip in an advertisement claimed it is India's "second largest online travel aggregator", which was found to be misleading by ASCI's ...

The athletes’ names are being leveraged and linked to brands across corporates such as Aditya Birla Group, Apollo Hospitals and Perfetti Va...

NAMS has identified 55 advertisements in print and on TV that could likely mislead the audience or make false and unsubstatiated claims.

The Advertising Standards Council of India (ASCI) today launched an initiative to track and control misleading advertisements.