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  • Bonne Terre Ltd t/a Sky Bet

    • Not Upheld
    • Television
    • 10 July 2019

    A TV ad for Sky Bet, seen on 30 August 2018, promoting their “Request a Bet” service. The football presenter Jeff Stelling said, “Forget ‘anything can happen’, in sport anything does happen. But could it be better? With Request a Bet it could. Spark your sports brain and roll all the po...

  • Universal Music Operations Ltd

    • Not Upheld
    • Television
    • 10 July 2019

    A TV ad for Billie Eilish’s album ‘When we all fall asleep, where do we go?’, seen at around 8.15 pm on 29 March 2019 began with on-screen text that stated the name of the artist while a voice-over said, “This is ‘When we all fall asleep, where do we go?’ the debut album from Billie ...

  • Sanofi UK

    • Upheld
    • Internet (social networking)
    • 03 July 2019

    A post on thismamalife’s Instagram account, seen in February 2019, featured an image of the blogger in bed smiling. In the background of the image was a packet of Phenergan Night Time tablets. The caption stated “[AD] Sleep. Who needs more of it? I'm really lucky in that I don't actually need a lot ...

  • Mondelez UK Ltd t/a Cadbury

    • Not Upheld
    • Internet (video)
    • 05 June 2019

    A TV ad, YouTube ad and cinema ad for Cadbury, seen in late November 2018:   a. The TV ad began with a secondary school-aged girl, wearing a Santa Claus mask and carrying a large ribbon-wrapped chocolate bar under her arm, walking through a school during classes. She dodged behind a wall to avoid a teacher a...

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