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[Webinar] Navigating the Maze of Influencer Marketing - June 4th, 1:00 pm - 1:30 pm EST

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Join Kelley Drye for a fast-paced, practical webinar, “Navigating the Maze of Influencer Marketing.” This 30-minute session will cover what companies need to know to stay compliant with evolving FTC guidance, class action...more

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NAD Holds Celebrity Social Media Posts Need Disclosures

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Under the FTC’s Endorsement Guides, influencers and celebrities have to disclose any material connection they have to the brands they promote ​“when a significant minority of the audience for an endorsement does not...more

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NAD Monitoring Program Results in Decision on Influencer Marketing

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In a recent decision, the Better Business Bureau’s National Programs’ National Advertising Division (NAD) took issue with social media content posted by influencers engaged by Revolve Group, Inc. and recommended that the...more

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NAD Decision Addresses Gifting to Influencers

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Revolve is an e-commerce fashion brand that relies heavily on influencers to promote its products. Some of those influencers promote the products pursuant to agreements with the company, while others promote the products as...more

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NAD Decision Addresses Content Creators on TikTok

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TikTok offers an affiliate program through which influencers and other content creators can earn commissions by promoting products from various brands through affiliate links in their videos. Marketing experts often caution...more

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NAD Addresses Influencer Disclosures in Challenge Between Competitors

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This week, NAD announced a decision in a dispute between Mielle Organics and Kreyol Essence – two competitors in the beauty and personal care market – that focused on whether an influencer had clearly disclosed her...more

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Takeaways from the 2024 National Advertising Division Annual Conference: Charting the Global Future of Ad Law

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Businesses, regulators, academics, and advertising and legal professionals connected in New York City in September to discuss the “Global Future of Ad Law” at the National Advertising Division (NAD) Annual Conference. Some...more

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NAD Conference Recap: Who’s Your Sponsor?

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The topic of material disclosures was a running theme at this year’s NAD Conference. Following the one-year anniversary of the FTC’s updates to the Endorsement Guides (Guides), NAD staff shared how they were applying and...more

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Stay ADvised: 2024, Issue 10

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NAD Melts Away Fenty's Jelly Oil Endorsements, Finding Them Insufficiently Conspicuous - In a self-monitoring challenge to skincare brand Fenty and its marketing for its Melt AWF Jelly Oil Makeup-Melting Cleanser, NAD...more

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A Dream Is a Wish Your Heart Makes: Aspirational Claims in Advertising Can Be Misleading, Too

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The end of a year and the beginning of a new one can be a time of reflection and a time for thinking about the future and what it may hold. It is a time for making lists of resolutions, goals, and aspirations...more

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Stay ADvised: Brand Protection & Advertising Law News - December 2023 - 2

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FTC Warns Influencers That Disclosures Miss the Sweet Spot - The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) continues to be very clear that policing the failure to disclose material connections by influencers when posting social media...more

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Takeaways from a Panel with the FTC and NAD

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In addition to legal analysis, legislative developments, and some general whimsy, in this blog we highlight commentary from regulators and industry figures in the advertising law space. We had the opportunity to hear from...more

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Stay ADvised: Brand Protection & Advertising Law News - September 2023

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Suit Alleging Madison Reed Hair Color Claims Are Deceptive Will Live to "Dye" Another Day - Allegations that Madison Reed misrepresented the safety and quality of its at-home hair dying products survived a motion to...more

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[Event] A Look at ESG Advertising Claims and Influencer Marketing Under the FTC’s Proposed Revisions to the Endorsement Guides -...

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Regulatory scrutiny of advertising has ramped up significantly over the past year, and nowhere more so than with (1) environmental, social, and governance (ESG) issues, and (2) social media influencers and the Federal Trade...more

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AD-ttorneys@law - December 2021 #2

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China’s Influencers Suffer Great Leap Backward - The party’s central Internet authority aims to curb rampant celebrity “extravagance” - Oversight, or Overlook? With all the negative attention online culture and social media...more

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[Virtual Event] Food Law – Regulation, Compliance and Litigation - May 12th - 13th, 8:15 am - 3:45 pm CDT

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The food industry’s most comprehensive legal and regulatory conference, Food Law – Regulation, Compliance and Litigation, is returning this spring in a unique, interactive virtual format. Key stakeholders will discuss how to...more

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AD-ttorneys@law – November 2020 #3

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FTC Tries to Clean Out 25 Fake Disinfectant Websites - But all information about scheme masterminds has been wiped away - Less Is More - There are elaborate schemes out there – boy, have we covered them. Misdirection, shadowy...more

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NAD Addresses Disclosures on Influencer TikTok Videos

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In its Disclosures 101 for Social Media Influencers guide, the FTC recommended that when an influencer promotes a brand in a video, the influencer should disclose any connection it has to the brand in the video itself. In...more

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AD-ttorneys@law

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IMC Releases Best Practices for Fraudspotting - Dig into the numbers, says industry watchdog - All-Star Game - Look, the Influencer Marketing Council sounds cooler than it actually is....more

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Do We Need A Truth In Advertising Act? The Industry and Retailers Self-Regulate Photoshopping Ads

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Digitally altered images of models have been a controversial advertising issue for decades. In Great Britain, the Advertising Standards Authority Ltd., which is the governing regulatory advertising body, in 2011 banned...more

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Dietary Supplement & Cosmetics Legal Bulletin | October 2017

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The use of beauty products is “an understudied source of environmental chemical exposures” with a disparate effect on women of color, George Washington University and Occidental College researchers argue. Ami R. Zota, et al.,...more

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I Subscribed to What? What Online Subscription-Based Marketers Need To Tell Their Consumers

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I am certainly not the only person who has been lured into purchasing a too-good-to-be-true, deeply discounted product online, only to learn that what I actually purchased was a subscription to buy more stuff. Kate Hudson’s...more

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Advertising Through Social Media: Ten Tips For FTC & NAD Compliance

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Most modern advertising campaigns include social media components. In fact, it is not uncommon today to see products advertised exclusively on social media. For the most part, the same rules that govern traditional...more

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